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Vuohenkieli is a black/death metal band from Hyvinkää, Finland, formed in 2019. They combine the darkness of black metal with death metal's brutality.
Vuolla is a melodic doom/death metal band from Jyväskylä, Finland, active since 2009. They blend the sorrowful melodies of doom metal with death metal's guttural intensity.
Vurculac is a death metal band from Santiago de Compostela, Spain, active since 2004. They are one of the longer-running death metal acts in the Galician underground.
Vurricator is a death metal band from Collesano near Palermo, Sicily, formed in 2014. They play aggressive death metal from the Sicilian interior.
Vverevvolf Grehv is the solo project of Dapose, a musician from Omaha, Nebraska best known as a member of the electronic act The Faint, combining death metal brutality, speed metal tempos, and industrial noise with the structural logic of IDM and electronic music. Signed to Relapse Records in 2007, the project released its sole album Zombie Aesthetics in 2008, a confrontational and genre-defying record that found a place in both the metal underground and experimental electronic circles. The band subsequently toured with Skinny Puppy.
Columbus, Ohio band weaving Gothic gloom into melodic death metal, pairing the melancholic atmosphere of the Gothic tradition with driving riffs and death metal aggression. Active since 2022, they occupy the darkly romantic space between mid-era Paradise Lost and Scandinavian melodeath.
VVM is an electronic/industrial/gothic death metal project from Girona, Spain, formed in 2023. They fuse industrial electronics and rock with gothic and death metal for an eclectic, genre-crossing sound.
Kyiv's Vyr weaves together black metal, death metal, and melodic black metal into sophisticated compositions that balance aggression with sweeping melodic passages. Their multi-faceted approach to extreme metal creates a dynamic, emotionally resonant sound.
Kharkiv's Vyr Muk brings together black metal, death metal, and folk metal into a distinctive Ukrainian hybrid, incorporating traditional elements alongside extreme metal ferocity. Their compositions celebrate Ukrainian cultural identity through the lens of aggressive, boundary-crossing metal.
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