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Divine (2024)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Odesa's V.E.L delivers thrash metal from Ukraine's Black Sea port city, channeling the aggression and precision of classic thrash through a Ukrainian lens. Their tight, riff-driven compositions reflect the continued vitality of thrash metal in Eastern Europe.
V.I.D.A. is a melodic death/thrash/metalcore trio from Zárate, Buenos Aires, Argentina, built around brothers Jorge and Javier Cybula on bass/vocals and guitar/vocals respectively, alongside drummer Javier Cuello. The band released the album "Mentes Enfermas" in 2018, followed by "Memorias" in 2021, and earned second place at the Wacken Open Air Metal Battle in 2022.
Vaarna is a black/thrash metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2024. They fuse black metal's ferocity with thrash's riff-driven velocity.
Vade Aratro is a heavy metal band from San Giovanni in Persiceto near Bologna, Italy, active since 2008 and incorporating folk and thrash influences. Their name combining the Latin "vade" (go) with "aratro" (plough), they blend traditional heavy metal with folk and thrash elements.
One of Poland's most internationally renowned and longest-running extreme metal acts, Vader has been delivering relentless death-thrash since 1983, led by the tireless Piotr "Peter" Wiwczarek. Albums like "Litany," "De Profundis," and "The Ultimate Incantation" cemented their status as death metal royalty.
Vadra is a death/thrash metal trio from San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina, comprising Marko on guitar and vocals, Martín on bass, and Montyz on drums. The band recorded their EP "En las profvndidades del horror" between May and July 2019 at a home studio in Jujuy, with mixing and mastering handled at Kueva Studio in Salta; the release appeared in 2020 on the Corpse Print label in digipak CD format.
Vae Solis is a thrash/melodic death metal band from Yorkshire, England, formed in 2019. They combine thrash metal's speed with melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility.
Vagrant is a heavy/thrash/death metal band from Sliven, Bulgaria, active since 2004. They blend the intensity of death metal with thrash's velocity and traditional heavy metal's structural foundations in the Bulgarian underground scene.
Vaktal is a progressive thrash metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2021. They combine thrash metal's aggression with progressive structures.
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