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Vortigan is a doom metal band from Hetzmannsdorf in Lower Austria, active since 2011 and self-described practitioners of "KingSizeUltraDoom." Their 2011 demo "The Last Judgement" is a single monolithic track spanning nearly 39 minutes of crushing, glacially paced doom.
Colossal Stoner / Doom Metal / Rock out of Texas.
Voyager formed in 2004 and have spent over two decades building a dense, slow-moving sound rooted in doom and atmospheric sludge metal with post-rock reach. Their compositions are patient and expansive, allowing weight and atmosphere to accumulate gradually rather than arriving through brute force alone. The blend of sludge heaviness and post-rock's textural sensitivity gives their work an emotional scale that the straightforwardly heavy cannot always achieve.
Seattle's Vulgaris formed in 2019, drawing on both the city's heavy music heritage and the Pacific Northwest's overcast gloom to craft a sound that moves between doom metal's funeral-paced weight and traditional heavy metal's hooks. The tension between those two poles keeps the material unpredictable.
Houston's Vulgarnaut have been hauling their stoner-doom payload since 2016, with a sound thick enough to match the heat and humidity of the Gulf Coast. Their riffs move slowly and deliberately, stacking fuzz and feedback in the tradition of the heaviest Texas underground.
Vulpus Rex is an atmospheric black/doom metal band from Ostia near Rome, Italy, formed in 2019. They blend atmospheric black metal with doom's crushing weight.
Stockholm's Vulture Neck pairs doom metal's crushing weight with heavy metal's melodic sensibility, creating a hybrid that balances slow devastation with classic riffing. Their dynamic approach moves between ponderous heaviness and driving, hook-laden passages.
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.
Váli is a drone/doom metal band from Essex, England, formed in 2013. They deliver crushing, minimalist drone doom from the English southeast.
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