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This Godless Endeavor (2005)
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Swedish act Vider merges black metal, death metal, and grindcore into a volatile, genre-defying cocktail of extremity. Their unpredictable compositions shift between blast-driven fury and grinding aggression with reckless abandon.
Vrable's Vighun delivers melodic death metal with hooky twin-guitar harmonies and guttural intensity from western Slovakia. Their Gothenburg-influenced approach balances accessible melodies with the heaviness and aggression of the death metal tradition.
Seattle's Vile Command conjure black/death metal that feels as damp and lightless as the Pacific Northwest in November. Since 2020, the band has fused the two sub-genres with a palpable sense of siege, each riff another wall closing in.
Vile Discectomy is a slam/brutal death metal band from Hastings, England, formed in 2019. They deliver crushing, guttural slam death metal from the English south coast.
Vile Disgust is a death metal/grindcore band from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2009. They combine death metal's brutality with grindcore's chaotic intensity.
Vile Existence was a brutal death metal band from São Paulo, formed in 2020 around a lineup of Eliézer Henrique on vocals, Evandro Miranda and Felipe Silva on guitars, Juan Azevedo on bass, and Junior Bruxo on drums. The band released the single "Dimensional Cosmic Paradox" in January 2021, framing it as an artifact of cosmic horror and the first step toward a debut album before ultimately splitting up.
Vile Extortion is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2019. They combine melodic death metal's harmonies with thrash metal's velocity.
Devastating Slam / Brutal Death Metal from Dickinson.
Los Angeles' Vile Invokation summon the blackened death metal tradition with occult deliberateness since their 2022 founding, treating each track as a genuine rite rather than a performance. The city's sprawling darkness provides fertile ground for the kind of sinister atmosphere they conjure.
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