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Visto is a black/death metal band from Finland, formed in 2015. They fuse the darkness of black metal with death metal's brutal intensity.
Viszeral is a black metal project from Rosenheim, Germany, formed in 2020. The project channels intense, visceral black metal.
Vitae Crucis is an experimental black metal project from Canterbury, England, formed in 2023. They push black metal's boundaries with experimental approaches from the historic English city.
Olympia, Washington's Vitality Ritual situates itself deep in the experimental margins of black and doom metal, founded in 2024 with a sound that takes the cold austerity of black metal and stretches it into ambient, ritual-minded territory. In a city long associated with underground artistic experimentation, they fit naturally — patient, atmospheric, and deliberately disquieting.
Kyiv-based solo artist Vitaliy Sytnik crafts deeply personal depressive black metal, using the genre as a vehicle for raw emotional expression. His compositions channel profound anguish through minimal instrumentation and tortured vocal delivery.
Skelleftea's Vithatten, whose name means "white hat" in Swedish, channels the frozen forests of Vasterbotten into atmospheric black metal. Their compositions draw from the harsh northern Swedish landscape, evoking snow-covered wilderness through tremolo-driven soundscapes.
Colorado's Vitki draws on the most crushing end of the black-doom continuum, filtering funeral doom's glacial tempos and suffocating atmospheres through a black metal lens since 2023. Named after the Norse runic tradition, the project carries a solitary, ritualistic quality — music designed less for concerts than for the kind of introspective darkness the mountains outside their unnamed Colorado home seem built to inspire.
Vitrectomy is a black metal project from the Grisons canton of Switzerland, formed in 2017. The project operates in the raw black metal tradition, delivering intense and unrelenting compositions from the Swiss alpine underground.
Vitreoous is a black/death metal project from Spain, formed in 2017. They combine the darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing heaviness.
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