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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Lidkoping's Visio Mortis, whose Latin name means "vision of death," delivers melodic death metal that balances aggression with accessible guitar harmonies. Their Gothenburg-influenced approach pairs hooky melodies with death metal's essential heaviness and guttural vocal intensity.
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.
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