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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Newsflash (2023)
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Riverside, California death metal band formed in 2020, adding another voice to the Inland Empire's long history of brutal underground metal. Their approach draws from the meat-and-bones tradition of American death metal, built on punishing riffs and relentless percussion.
Vándr is a black/death metal band from the Derbyshire/Nottingham area of England, formed in 2020. They combine black metal's atmospheric darkness with death metal's ferocity.
Väestönsuoja is a grindcore/death metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 2020. Their name meaning "bomb shelter" in Finnish, they deliver explosive grindcore and death metal.
Binghamton, New York death metal act operating under the Swedish word for "apparition" or "ghost," a name that hints at a sound influenced by the spectral, rotten-sounding Swedish death metal tradition. Active since 2012, they've quietly maintained a presence in the upstate New York underground.
Vér is a death metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2021. Their name meaning "blood" in Hungarian, they deliver aggressive death metal.
Véumörbido is a black/thrash/death metal band from Ponta Grossa, Paraná, formed in 2023. Their debut release "Malleus Maleficarum" (December 2023) is a five-track EP featuring the lineup of L. NightGhost on guitar and vocals, J. GothTrash on bass, A. CaveTroll on guitar, and L. Conde Verdugo on drums.
Vögel is a progressive death metal project from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in 2019. They combine progressive complexity with death metal's heaviness.
Spartanburg, South Carolina band fusing black metal, death metal, and noise into a corrosive, boundary-dissolving sound since 2018. The Vølus name evokes Norse mythological resonance, and the band's blackened death approach carries the dense, suffocating weight that typifies the genre's most extreme convergences.
Vûlom is a melodic death/doom metal band from Kaštela, Croatia, formed in 2019. They blend the sorrow of doom metal with melodic death metal's harmonic richness.
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