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Vargskraft is a black/pagan metal band from Comodoro Rivadavia, in the Chubut province of Patagonian Argentina, featuring a multi-member lineup including Velkan on vocals, VargVind on bass, DysterEnsomheit and Vinter on guitars, and Panzer on drums. The band released their debut EP "Aullidos de Libertad" on December 2, 2015, a three-track release with songs including "Estrategia Alfa" and "Fortaleza de Lobo."
Swedish project Vargthron delivers raw black metal with a deliberately lo-fi aesthetic that embraces tape distortion and minimal production. Their primitive approach strips the genre to its most hostile core, favoring atmosphere and aggression over clarity.
Philadelphia's Varials deal in a suffocating strain of metallic hardcore that draws equally from beatdown and death metal, punctuated by crushing low-tuned breakdowns and vocalist Travis Tabron's venomous delivery. Albums like 'Pain Again' and 'In Darkness' showcase a band unafraid to push heaviness to its most oppressive extremes.
Norrkoping's Varices brings together death metal's crushing weight, groove metal's rhythmic punch, and melodic death metal's soaring harmonies into a versatile hybrid. Their multi-faceted approach keeps compositions dynamic and unpredictable.
Variscythe is a melodic death/groove metal band from The Hague, Netherlands, formed in 2015. They blend melodic death metal's harmonies with groove metal's rhythmic heaviness.
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.
Varken is a black metal project from the UK, formed in 2021. They deliver raw, atmospheric black metal.
Varkodya is a melodic death metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2014. They deliver melodic death metal with harmonic guitar work from southern France.
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