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Agamemnon (2025)
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This Godless Endeavor (2005)
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Cleveland's Vicar Blood arrived in 2025 dragging the rot-soaked tradition of Midwest death metal behind them like a corpse. Unholy in name and uncompromising in execution, they channel the rust-belt grimness of their city into suffocating, grave-deep brutality.
Belgrade's Vicery delivers punishing death metal with a relentless intensity rooted in the classic traditions of the genre. Their compositions pile on blast beats and guttural vocals with uncompromising aggression.
Vasteras' Vicious hammers out death-thrash metal with the raw intensity and precision that defines Sweden's thriving underground scene. Their aggressive, riff-driven approach channels the velocity of thrash through death metal's heavier sonic palette.
Vicious Knights is a thrash/death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2016. They combine thrash metal's speed with death metal's heaviness from Greece's second city.
Denver's Victim of Fire scorch through the boundary between death metal and crust punk, letting both sides burn at equal intensity. Founded in 2019 at a mile-high altitude, their sound carries the breathless, frantic energy of both underground traditions.
Victim of Reality is a doom/death metal band from Grodno, Belarus, formed in 2018. They combine the crushing weight of doom metal with death metal's guttural intensity, drawing on classic European doom/death traditions.
Out of Colorado Springs since 2023, Victim Ritual treat death metal as a ceremony — methodical, purposeful, and deeply sinister. They're among the newer voices rising from Colorado's increasingly fertile extreme metal underground.
Gorzow Wielkopolski's Victimized blends melodic death metal's hooky twin-guitar harmonies with straight-ahead death metal's guttural punch. Their Gothenburg-influenced approach delivers memorable melodies without sacrificing heaviness or aggression.
Victims of Silence is a melodic death metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2018. They play melodic death metal with harmonic guitar work and dynamic vocal interplay.
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