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AntiFragile (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Valdaudr is a black/thrash metal band from Kristiansand, Norway, active since 2005. They fuse black metal's darkness with thrash's riff-driven velocity from southern Norway.
Valenta is a black/thrash metal band from Beroun, Czech Republic, formed in 2025. They fuse the raw aggression of black metal with thrash metal's riff-driven velocity in the Czech underground.
Intricate Progressive / Groove Metal from Dallas.
Kielce's Valpurgia fuses the velocity of thrash metal with black metal's tremolo-driven darkness, channeling the spirit of early Sodom and Destruction through a Polish lens. Their aggressive, blackened thrash approach favors speed and savagery over subtlety.
Vampire is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Buttenheim/Dreuschendorf in Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2012. They combine the melodic sensibilities of Gothenburg-style death metal with the velocity and aggression of thrash.
Vanir is a melodic black/thrash metal band from Duisburg, Germany, formed in 2014. They fuse the melodic elements of Scandinavian black metal with the aggressive drive of thrash in a potent German metal hybrid.
Varcolak is a black/thrash metal band from Germany, formed in 2014. They combine black metal's ferocity with thrash's riff-driven momentum for a relentless assault.
Varix is a thrash metal band from Weingarten, Germany. They deliver aggressive, riff-heavy thrash metal in the tradition of German thrash.
Varkals is a thrash metal band from the Kurzeme region of Latvia, active since 2004. They are one of the longer-running thrash acts in the Latvian underground.
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