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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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San Jose's Varnok have been sharpening their Bay Area-rooted thrash since 2014, keeping the tradition of crunching riffs and rapid-fire drumming alive in the shadow of the genre's greatest proving ground. They play thrash as an act of reverence — and aggression.
Gliwice's Vates drives hard with a death-thrash hybrid that channels the aggressive spirit of Kreator and early Sepultura through a modern Polish metal lens. Their tight, riff-centric approach favors rhythmic precision and controlled fury.
Vatican Spectrum is a thrash metal band from Cartagena, Spain, formed in 2022. They play aggressive, riff-driven thrash metal from the Spanish Mediterranean coast.
VDBS is a thrash metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2015. They play aggressive, fast-paced thrash metal from the Alsatian underground.
Vebrifuge is a speed/thrash metal band from Bocholt, Germany, formed in 2018. They deliver high-velocity thrash and speed metal in the tradition of the German thrash movement.
Warsaw's Vedonist hammers out death-thrash with a relentless intensity characteristic of Poland's deep extreme metal underground. Their compositions prioritize speed and aggression, delivering a punishing assault of blast beats and razor-sharp riffing.
Veil is a death/thrash metal band from Fuenlabrada, Spain, formed in 2020. They combine death metal's heaviness with thrash's velocity from the Madrid metropolitan area.
Vektor formed in Tempe, Arizona in 2004 — operating earlier under the name Locrian — and became one of the most acclaimed technical thrash metal acts of the 2010s through a style that grafted Voivod's dissonant science fiction atmosphere onto the most demanding end of thrash's technical tradition. Their debut Black Future (2009) received widespread critical recognition, and Terminal Redux (2016) on Earache Records is widely regarded as their most ambitious work, a concept album spanning progressive and extreme metal in roughly equal measure. Three studio albums document the band's career.
Velastria is a blackened thrash metal band from Belgium, formed in 2025 with lyrical themes centered on the chaos and horror of warfare. Their debut concept album "War Delusion" explores the horrors of past and future conflicts through relentless blackened thrash.
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