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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Vowels is a black metal project from Vicenza, Italy, active since 2012 and evolving from raw black metal toward atmospheric post-black metal and ambient. Their stylistic evolution reflects a journey from aggression to introspection.
Istanbul's Vox in Rama crafts atmospheric black metal with an emphasis on haunting, almost liturgical atmosphere. Their compositions draw from religious imagery and dark spirituality, creating a sound that is both intensely aggressive and eerily devotional.
Vox Mortuis is a black metal project from Minsk, Belarus, formed in 2016. The project delivers raw, uncompromising black metal steeped in darkness and misanthropy from the Belarusian underground.
Vrael is a black metal project from Aarhus, Denmark, formed in 2017. The project delivers intense, raw black metal from Denmark's second-largest city.
Belgrade's Vragh fuses black and death metal into a savage hybrid, drawing from both genres' most extreme tendencies. Their dual-genre attack creates compositions that alternate between atmospheric tremolo passages and guttural, rhythmic devastation.
Mikhaylovsk's Vralgaldr channels raw black metal from Russia's Stavropol region, wrapping occult themes in aggressive tremolo riffs and blast-driven fury. Their name, drawing from Old Norse runic tradition, reflects a thematic preoccupation with ancient mysticism.
Vrani Volosa is a pagan folk metal band from Burgas, Bulgaria, formed in 2005 and evolving from early pagan black metal into an epic, nature-inspired folk metal sound. Across eight releases from "Where The Heart Burns" to 2023's "Woods Mountains Skies," the five-piece crafts soaring, raw compositions channeling themes of nature and Bulgarian heritage.
Vranov is a solo melodic black metal project from Vienna, Austria, launched in 2023 by a musician who self-describes the output as "Jesus metal." The project channels melodic black metal through a Christian thematic lens, with releases including the album "Christ Is The King."
Istanbul's Vratthr delivers raw, aggressive black metal from the shores of the Bosphorus. Their uncompromising approach channels the ferocity of Scandinavian black metal through the unique cultural context of Turkey's ancient metropolis.
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