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Vaginal Purulence is a death metal band from Angers, France, formed in 2016. They deliver graphic, visceral death metal from the western French underground.
Vagrant is a heavy/thrash/death metal band from Sliven, Bulgaria, active since 2004. They blend the intensity of death metal with thrash's velocity and traditional heavy metal's structural foundations in the Bulgarian underground scene.
Vainaja is a three-piece death/doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2011 and performing entirely in Finnish. Their albums — including "Kadotetut," "Verenvalaja," and "Kiviristi" — are concept-driven narratives based on encrypted historical events, combining crushing riffs with dark melodies in what has been called one of the heaviest Finnish-language records.
Valar Morghulis is an epic heavy/melodic death metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2022. Named after the Game of Thrones phrase meaning "all men must die," they combine epic heavy metal grandeur with melodic death metal aggression.
Kiruna's Valarauk delivers crushing death-doom from above the Arctic Circle, channeling the extreme northern Swedish climate's oppressive darkness into slow, heavy compositions. Their geographic remoteness infuses their music with a genuine sense of desolation.
Vale of Tears is a gothic/melodic death metal band from Karcag, Hungary, formed in 2023. They evolved from gothic/death metal origins toward a more melodic death metal sound.
Valfariss is a melodic black/death metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2011. They blend melodic black metal's atmospheric sweep with death metal's ferocity.
Valhexen is a symphonic blackened death metal band from London, formed in 2023. They layer orchestral symphonic elements over blackened death metal's ferocity.
Kansas City's Valiant Reason have been grinding and gutting since 2017, fusing death metal's ferocity with grindcore's relentless pace. Short, savage, and surgically brutal — they're one of the Midwest's most punishing outfits.
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