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Vulkan Grit is a black metal project from Finland, formed in 2023. They play aggressive, unrelenting black metal.
Barely a year old, Vulnera arose from the rural quiet of Hallstead, Pennsylvania in 2024, pursuing a strain of depressive black metal that leans heavily on atmosphere and desolation. The isolation of small-town northeastern Pennsylvania seems to inform every note of their bleak, introspective sound.
Kansas City's Vulpecula have been operating at the intersection of black and death metal since 2020, weaving ambient textures into their otherwise abrasive framework. The name — a small, faint constellation — hints at a project more interested in negative space and atmosphere than brute force alone.
Vulpus Rex is an atmospheric black/doom metal band from Ostia near Rome, Italy, formed in 2019. They blend atmospheric black metal with doom's crushing weight.
Ripping Death / Thrash Metal from San Antonio.
Vulsellum is a death metal band from Dundee, Scotland, formed in 2018. They deliver crushing death metal from the Scottish east coast.
Omaha's Vulthoom have been practicing raw black metal since 2018, operating far from any established scene with the self-sufficient ferocity that defines the midwest underground. Their output is deliberately primitive — scraping away anything that might soften the freezing, hostile core.
Portuguese project Vulto, whose name means "figure" or "apparition," conjures spectral black metal with an emphasis on shadowy atmosphere and haunting textures. Their compositions evoke a sense of creeping unease through patient, layered arrangements.
Vulto Abissal—Portuguese for "Abyssal Shade"—is a speed and black metal band from Iracemápolis, São Paulo, founded by the multi-instrumentalist Pfähler, who handled all instruments and vocals on early recordings. The band issued its demo Until the Dark Solitude Take Our Soul in January 2015 and quickly followed with the EP Queen of the Dark Depths in June 2015, establishing a catalog built around themes of evil, the occult, and misanthropy.
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