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Virtual Dreams is a progressive metal band from Gütersloh, Germany, formed in 2015. They explore complex, technically ambitious progressive metal compositions.
Virtual Lies is a progressive metal/rock band from Mitilini, Greece, formed in 2022. They explore complex progressive compositions from the Aegean island of Lesbos.
Virvum was formed in Zürich, Switzerland in 2007 by guitarists Bryan Berger and Nic Gruhn, crafting a style of technical death metal notable for its melodic expansiveness and progressive architecture. Their debut album Illuminance (2016) attracted widespread attention and led to a deal with Season of Mist in 2017, positioning them alongside the leading acts in contemporary technical and progressive death metal. Gruhn's profile rose further through his work touring with Fallujah and opening for Suffocation and Cephalic Carnage.
Visceralgreed is a progressive/melodic black metal project from Hildesheim, Germany, formed in 2024. The project blends black metal's ferocity with progressive structures and melodic sensibility.
Vital Signs has been delivering workmanlike heavy metal since 2017, occupying the traditional end of the spectrum where hooks, groove, and raw energy take precedence over extremity. Location unlisted, they operate as a pure expression of the genre's core values — unpretentious, heavy, and built to last.
Viuda Negra was a heavy metal and hard rock band from Chihuahua, Mexico, active from 1992 to 1996. The band released the EP Flotando en la nada in 1995, their only recorded output during their initial run. They have since split up and left behind a small but documented footprint in Mexico's northern heavy metal underground.
Vivaldi is a progressive heavy/power metal band from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2009. They deliver technically ambitious progressive metal with heavy and power metal foundations.
Vlk is a progressive/post-black metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2013. They merge the atmospheric expansiveness of post-black metal with progressive composition and dynamic song structures.
Vnrest is a progressive/technical death metal project from Kiel, Germany, formed in 2016. Across their numbered releases — I, II, and III — they explore increasingly complex technical death metal compositions.
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