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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Volucrine is a melodic death/progressive metal band from Kouvola, Finland, formed in 2014. They blend the melodic depth of death metal with progressive metal's structural complexity.
Von Pey is a melodic death metal band from Cologne, Germany, active since 2004. They play melodic death metal with dual-guitar harmonies and dynamic vocal contrasts.
VoyD is a progressive/melodic death metal band from the UK, formed in 2018. They blend progressive structures with melodic death metal's harmonic richness.
Vultus is a melodic death metal band from Guadalajara, Spain, formed in 2013. They play melodic death metal with harmonic guitar harmonies and technical precision.
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.
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.
Melodic death metal band from Moscow, Russia emerging in 2024. Wail of Winter delivers Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the Russian capital.
Melodic death metal band from Plymouth, England formed in 2023. War Shepherd delivers Scandinavian-style melodic death metal from the naval port city on England's southern coast.
Melodic death/thrash metal band from Switzerland formed in 2022. Warclaw merges the melodic sensibility of Gothenburg-style death metal with the speed and aggression of thrash into a potent Swiss hybrid.
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