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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Vaulting is a technical death metal/grindcore band from Wiesbaden, Germany, active since 2007. They combine grindcore's chaotic brevity with death metal's technical precision for a punishing extreme metal assault.
Vein of Hate is a technical death metal band from Gomel, Belarus, active since 2015. Their releases "Internal Enemy" and the 2017 promo "Non-organic Placebo for a Victim" showcase precise, technically demanding death metal with complex arrangements.
Vetha is a technical death/groove metal band from Normandy, France, formed in 2014. They combine technical death metal's precision with groove metal's rhythmic heaviness.
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.
Visceral Abnormality is a technical death metal band from Guadalajara, Jalisco, formed in 2017. The band explores themes of social criticism, philosophy, and occultism across releases including the EP Humanity Lost (2020) and the single The Pinnacle of Human Evolution (2022). They remain one of the more prominent independent tech-death acts in Guadalajara's underground scene.
Warsaw's Vitur brings technical precision to death metal with intricate riffing patterns, complex time signatures, and a relentless rhythmic foundation. Their compositions showcase the technical death metal tradition while maintaining visceral heaviness.
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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