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Beltsville, Maryland's Visceral Violation has carved out a brutal death metal identity in the Mid-Atlantic underground since 2019, channeling the region's aggressive hardcore undertow into a framework of uncompromising extremity. Their sound is exactly what the name promises — direct, confrontational, and built for the pit.
Baltimore, Maryland slam and brutal death metal outfit formed in 2017, rooted in a city with a long tradition of supporting the heaviest corners of underground music. Vivisepulture channels that local intensity into slam death's bone-snapping breakdowns and maximalist brutality, a reliable and punishing presence on the East Coast extreme scene.
Vizaresh is a brutal death metal band from Atibaia, São Paulo, featuring vocalist and bassist Flavio Ribeiro alongside guitarists Caio Angelotti and Denis Queiroz and drummer Alessandro Kelvin. The band debuted with the EP Gastronomy of Vivisection (2015) before releasing their full-length In the Depths in 2022.
Voice of Reason is a brutal death metal/grindcore band from Paris, France, formed in 2017. They deliver punishing extreme metal combining brutal death metal's heaviness with grindcore's chaotic velocity.
Out of Greenville, South Carolina, Volvulus have spent over a decade crafting some of the ugliest, most punishing slam death metal the Southeast has to offer. Since forming in 2010 they've refined a sound built on cavernous, bowel-shaking breakdowns and the kind of surgical brutality that defines the genre's most dedicated practitioners.
Vomepotro is a brutal death metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, whose origins stretch back to the mid-1990s with early demos before a firm reformation. The band's album Zombie Gore Vomit was released in 2006 through German label Obscure Domain, and their follow-up Liturgy of Dissection was put out by US label Sevared Records after being recorded in June 2008.
Vomit Disease is a brutal death metal band from Nuremberg, Germany, formed in 2016. They deliver unrelenting, visceral brutal death metal from the Franconian underground.
Vomit Forth formed in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 2018, playing a punishing form of brutal death metal informed by hardcore aggression and gore-themed lyrical content. After a series of self-released demos and the Northeastern Deprivation compilation (2019), the band signed to Century Media Records and released their second album Terrified of God in October 2024, cementing their place in the current wave of brutal death metal.
Vomit the Soul formed in Lecco, Lombardy, Italy around 1999-2000, playing clinical and technically demanding brutal death metal in the tradition of the genre's most uncompromising practitioners. The band released several albums including Apostles of Inexpression and Cold before splitting up in 2011, then returned in 2021 and announced a new album, Massive Incineration, in 2024. Their name is derived from a Cannibal Corpse track.
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