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Utopium is a Lisbon-based death/sludge metal and grindcore act described as sounding like Nasum playing Entombed covers in Iron Monkey's rehearsal space. Their 2013 album Vicious Consolation / Virtuous Totality explores the seven vices and corresponding virtues across 18 compact, crushing tracks.
Uurn is a sludge/doom metal band from Malmo, Sweden, describing their sound as 'crippled bleak doom' that fuses doom metal with hardcore, noise rock, and sludge elements. Their 2022 album Strapped In, Ready To Go was recorded at The End Studio in Lund and released on a limited run of 25 cassettes that quickly sold out.
Vancouver is a sludge metal/metalcore band from Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, formed in 2005. They combine the abrasive heaviness of sludge metal with metalcore's dynamic song structures and breakdowns.
Vandal X is a two-piece noise rock turned sludge/doom band from Ghent, Belgium, active since 1995 with a "louder than anyone" attitude. Across nine releases spanning two decades — from 1998's "Little Man's Blues" to 2019's "Blood On The Street" — the duo combines hardcore's punch with noisy punk grit and increasingly heavy doom textures.
Verminthrone is a sludge/groove metal band from Buckinghamshire, England, formed in 2022. They combine sludge metal's abrasive heaviness with groove metal's rhythmic drive.
Vettt is a doom/sludge metal band from Nuremberg, Germany, founded in 2018 in an 8-square-meter practice space, self-described as being "on a mission to make the world a better place with more distortion." Their debut demo "-ish" was recorded live in a single session, capturing raw, noise-drenched sludge and doom.
Denver death-doom and sludge metal act formed in 2022, drawing on the Mile High underground's appetite for punishment. Vitrify layers death metal's crushing weight with doom's suffocating tempos and sludge's corrosive texture, their name evoking a transformation into something rigid and opaque — hardened under extreme pressure.
A 2025 formation out of Syracuse, New York, Void Emperor combine doom metal's suffocating tempo with sludge's corroded weight and the hazy warmth of stoner metal — the kind of combination that turns listening into a slow, deliberate surrender. Syracuse has a long underground metal heritage, and Void Emperor slot into it naturally, channeling something ancient and heavy that feels rooted in place. Brand new but immediately committed to the low and slow.
Operating between Bucharest and Bacau, Void Forger merges black metal's cold atmospherics with the crushing weight of doom and sludge metal. Their compositions move between blast-driven passages and glacially paced heaviness, creating a dynamic range that keeps the listener off-balance.
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