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Vandalis was formed in 1987 in San Juan, Argentina, recording their debut power metal album "Vandalis" at Estudios Colombia in Buenos Aires, released on cassette in Chile in 1993. Drummer and bandleader Daniel Torrent later relocated to Mallorca, Spain, where the project was revived as a symphonic hard rock act from 2007 onward with a new lineup including vocalist Marisa Marquez and guitarist Ariel Mendoza.
Vandamne is a melodic heavy metal band from Brighton, England, formed in 2013. They play accessible, melody-driven heavy metal from the English south coast.
Vandaud is a melodic black metal band from Vestland, Norway, formed in 2022. They play melodic black metal from the western Norwegian coast.
Vandoliers play cowpunk as a full-band collision of country storytelling, punk velocity, ska-rooted lift, and barroom rock release. Led by singer and songwriter Jenni Rose, the group came out of a musical background where Texas roots music and loud punk rooms were not separate worlds. Albums such as Ameri-Kinda, The Native, Forever, the self-titled record, and Life Behind Bars show a band steadily turning that mix into its own language: fiddle and trumpet carry melodic hooks, guitars keep the songs moving hard, and choruses are written to be shouted by a crowd that knows the bruises behind the jokes. Vandoliers are at their best when the arrangements feel messy in a human way, with boot-stomp rhythm, open-road longing, and defiant humor all sharing space. The band's country side gives the songs narrative shape, but the punk side gives them their nervous system. Even the more reflective material keeps a live-wire quality, as if every confession is one count away from becoming a sweaty, communal singalong.
Vangardion is an avant-garde symphonic metal project from Germany, formed in 2022. The project pushes the boundaries of symphonic metal with experimental and avant-garde compositional approaches.
Oklahoma City's Vangough have been crafting intricate progressive metal since 2009 with a cinematic scope that places them closer to the art-rock tradition than the pit. Emotionally dense and technically deliberate, their music rewards headphones as much as it demands volume.
Vanguard X Mortem is a symphonic/atmospheric extreme metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2014. They layer orchestral symphonic elements over atmospheric extreme metal for a cinematic, epic sound.
Vanguarda Metal Revolucionária (VxMxR) is a heavy and speed metal project from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2017 with a deliberately political, left-wing mission embedded into its music. The band — featuring MOSH X on vocals, EDOOM on guitars, JUCA on bass, and MINDU on drums — released the single "Metal Comunista" in 2017 and "Batismo de Sangue" in 2018, framing classic metal aggression as an instrument of political consciousness.
Out of Lexington, Nebraska — an unlikely outpost for black metal — Vanguardist have been carving out cold, unadorned second-wave worship since 2021. Their isolation from major scenes seems less like a handicap than a feature, sharpening the misanthropy to a fine point.
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