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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Gdynia's Vexange drives death-thrash metal with a focus on tight, aggressive riffing and relentless rhythmic energy rooted in the Polish underground tradition. Their compact, high-velocity compositions waste no time on filler or atmosphere.
Olympia, Washington's Vexer have been thrashing out of the Pacific Northwest since 2012 with a no-nonsense approach built on velocity and economy. In a state with a rich metal heritage, they've carved a niche by staying mean, fast, and focused.
Stromstad's Vexmortem fuses death metal's crushing intensity with thrash metal's rhythmic precision, creating a high-energy hybrid from Sweden's Norwegian border region. Their tight, aggressive songwriting balances both genres' strongest elements.
West Covina's Vexxum emerged in 2019 as part of Southern California's persistent thrash underground, bringing the aggression and technical precision the genre demands. Their San Gabriel Valley roots place them squarely in the sprawling LA metal ecosystem that has been producing killers since the 1980s.
Vice Verse is a progressive thrash metal band from Berkshire, England, formed in 2019. They combine thrash metal's aggression with progressive structures and technical ambition.
Vasteras' Vicious hammers out death-thrash metal with the raw intensity and precision that defines Sweden's thriving underground scene. Their aggressive, riff-driven approach channels the velocity of thrash through death metal's heavier sonic palette.
Pittsburgh's Vicious Blade fuse thrash's teeth-bared aggression with the street-level fury of crust punk, a combination that sounds exactly as ugly and relentless as the name suggests. Formed in 2020, they carry the blue-collar menace of their city's industrial past directly into the pit.
Vicious Brewery is a thrash metal band from Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, formed in 2023. They play aggressive, party-fueled thrash metal in the tradition of crossover-tinged German thrash.
Vicious Knights is a thrash/death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2016. They combine thrash metal's speed with death metal's heaviness from Greece's second city.
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