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Violet Crown is a black/death metal band from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in 2024. They combine the ferocity of black and death metal from the Icelandic scene.
Violet Moon is a gothic metal turned melodic death metal band from the Amberg/Auerbach/Regensburg/Forchheim area of Germany, formed in 2025. They evolved from gothic metal origins to embrace the heavier, more aggressive sound of melodic death metal.
Vipassi was formed in Melbourne, Australia in 2011 as a collaboration between drummer Daniel Presland of Ne Obliviscaris and guitarist Ben Boyle of Hadal Maw, later expanding to include guitarist Benjamin Baret and fretless bassist Arran McSporran. The band plays instrumental progressive and death metal of considerable technical ambition, debuting with Śūnyatā in 2017 and continuing with subsequent records on Season of Mist. Their music is informed by meditative and philosophical themes that extend to their song structures and titling.
Houston's Vipra arrived in 2022 bringing a melodic death-thrash hybrid that fits naturally into the city's historically brutal metal landscape while pointing outward toward the melodic Scandinavian tradition. Their riffing is tight and purposeful, threading Gothenburg-style lead work through a framework of punishing Texan heaviness.
One of the bands that helped put Houston on the brutal death metal map in the late 90s. Spawned Shawn Whitaker's solo project Insidious Decrepancy. Reunited in 2022 after a decade-long hiatus.
Vircolac is a death metal band from Dublin, Ireland, active since 2014, delivering "morbid tales of the macabre and visions from the darkside." Their discography — from 2014's "Codex Perfida" through 2024's "Veneration" — showcases evolving yet consistently dark death and black metal with a four-piece lineup.
Out of Westfield, Indiana, Vires blends deathcore's structural aggression with death metal's technical vocabulary, forming a sound that leans into the punishing side of the hybrid. Founded in 2022, they represent the newer generation of Midwest extreme metal acts bringing a modernized heaviness to a scene with deep underground roots.
Virgil is a blackened deathcore project from the Hauts-de-France region, active since 2000. With over two decades of activity, they blend blackened atmospherics with deathcore's crushing breakdowns.
Virgin's Vomit is a death metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2015 and signed to Urubuz Records. The band released their debut album "Ancient Witchcraft" in 2017 through a joint effort between Urubuz Records, Mutilation Productions, and Hell Music, establishing themselves in Brazil's extreme underground with themes of Satanism and anti-Christianity.
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