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Springfield, Oregon death metal band formed in 2014 in the Eugene-Springfield corridor's quietly persistent underground metal community. Operating under the 541 area code tag, Vivisection has maintained a decade-long presence in Oregon's scene, favoring grim directness and old-school aggression over technical showmanship.
Melbourne, Florida melodic death metal act formed in 2023, threading Scandinavian-influenced hooks through relentlessly heavy riffwork on Florida's Space Coast. Vivisector works the melodic death metal tradition of balancing atmosphere with brutality, letting neither the melody nor the crushing weight fully dominate the other.
American black/death metal project formed in 2013, their undisclosed location a deliberate extension of the underground anonymity their music inhabits. For over a decade Vivisektion has blurred the boundary between black and death metal rather than settling comfortably on either side, generating something rawer and harder to categorize than either genre alone.
Baltimore, Maryland slam and brutal death metal outfit formed in 2017, rooted in a city with a long tradition of supporting the heaviest corners of underground music. Vivisepulture channels that local intensity into slam death's bone-snapping breakdowns and maximalist brutality, a reliable and punishing presence on the East Coast extreme scene.
Los Angeles melodic death metal band formed in 2013, taking their name from the historical figure whose cruelties gave birth to Dracula mythology and pairing it with a decade-plus of riff-driven songwriting that balances aggression with atmosphere. Shaped by the competitive LA metal underground, they pursue the Scandinavian-influenced tradition of letting darkness and melody feed each other rather than fight.
Vlterior is a death metal band from the Ferrara/Bologna area of Italy, formed in 2019. They deliver crushing death metal from the Emilia-Romagna underground.
Vnrest is a progressive/technical death metal project from Kiel, Germany, formed in 2016. Across their numbered releases — I, II, and III — they explore increasingly complex technical death metal compositions.
Vocis is a melodic death metal band from Nottingham, England, formed in 2014. They play melodic death metal with harmonic guitar work and dynamic vocal contrasts.
Columbus, Ohio grindcore and death metal band formed in 2016, fusing the genre's velocity and crust punk's anarchic rawness with death metal's low-end devastation. Rooted in Columbus's scrappy DIY underground, Voice of Crows produce music with both political sharpness and physical force, treating brevity and brutality as equally essential tools.
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