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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Varechian is a doom/death metal band from Villeurbanne, France, formed in 2019. They combine the crushing weight of doom with death metal's guttural intensity.
Vascular Curse is a doom/death metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2020. They combine doom metal's oppressive weight with death metal's guttural ferocity.
Vast Pyre is a stoner/doom metal band from Eisenach, Germany, formed in 2024, inviting listeners to "dive into a world of heavy-hypnotising riffs and unhinged souls." Their releases deliver slow, crushing stoner doom with hypnotic repetition and oppressive atmosphere.
Houston's Vegeraksha emerged in 2024 fusing the crushing weight of doom metal with black metal's spectral malice. Even as a nascent project, their music carries the humid oppressiveness of the Texas Gulf Coast filtered through something genuinely sinister.
Vegralt is an experimental doom metal project from Alzira, Spain, formed in 2022. They push doom metal's boundaries with experimental and unconventional compositional approaches.
Cullman, Alabama's Veils of Purgatory blend doom metal's suffocating weight with post-metal's expansive, atmospheric reach — a 2025 project that already sounds ancient. Their music moves like sediment settling at the bottom of something deep and lightless.
Vein is a power/doom metal band from Denmark, formed in 2013. They merge the melodic grandeur of power metal with doom's crushing weight and deliberate pacing.
Vela Negra was a doom metal band from Brasília that sang in Portuguese and featured vocalist Zé Dai Hou alongside guitarists Vinicius Rispoli and Marcel Ianuck, bassist and visual artist Fabão Dourado, and drummer Tamiel Khan. The band released their debut single "O Inevitável Porvir" followed by the 2020 EP "Cemitério dos Vivos", whose cover art depicted Brasília's iconic monuments arranged into a skull — designed by Dourado himself.
Southern California's Velvet Merlin conjure stoner and doom metal from the sun-bleached coast of San Clemente, where fuzz tones and heavy grooves seem as natural as the Pacific breeze. Founded in 2020, they balance psych-tinged weightlessness with riff-first heaviness.
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