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Hopewell Junction, New York's Vision Serpent fuses death metal's downtuned aggression with groove metal's lockstep rhythmic swagger, arriving at a sound that is heavy in the most physical sense. Formed in 2023, they lean into the tension between brutality and headbang-inducing mid-tempo momentum, making their music as much about movement as darkness.
Visioned Frailty is a death/doom metal band from Várpalota, Hungary, formed in 2017. They combine death metal's aggression with doom's oppressive heaviness.
Visions is a blackened death/thrash metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2018, evolving through several stylistic phases from blackened death/thrash to black metal and back. Their genre-shifting approach reflects an restless creative vision within extreme metal.
Visions from Beyond is a death/doom metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2021. They combine death metal's aggression with doom's crushing weight and melancholy.
Visitor Q is a death metal band from Dublin, Ireland, active since 2009. They play aggressive death metal from the Irish capital.
Vistery is a death metal band from Minsk, Belarus, formed in 2011. They contribute to the Belarusian extreme metal underground with aggressive, straightforward death metal rooted in the genre's classic traditions.
Visto is a black/death metal band from Finland, formed in 2015. They fuse the darkness of black metal with death metal's brutal intensity.
Ruthless Slam / Brutal Death Metal out of Texas.
Vital Remains formed in Providence, Rhode Island in 1988, building a reputation as one of the most relentless and darkly devoted acts in American death metal through a career spanning more than three decades. Their 2003 album Dechristianize, featuring guest vocals from Glen Benton of Deicide, is widely regarded as their defining statement, distinguished by intricate guitar work and marathon track lengths. Founded by guitarist Paul Flynn, the band has maintained a continuous presence across a discography that includes Let Us Pray (1992), Into Cold Darkness (1995), and Forever Underground (1997).
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