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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Vasanist is a death metal band from Kozani, Greece, formed in 2023. They deliver aggressive death metal from the Greek north.
Vasari is a progressive/epic heavy metal project from Duisburg, Germany, formed in 2017 by multi-instrumentalist Matin Vasari. Their debut "Starbound" is a science fiction concept album inspired by Hoshino Yukinobu's manga "2001 Nights," featuring 15 tracks of epic metal with session musicians and a limited run of 50 hand-numbered digipak CDs.
Vascular Curse is a doom/death metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2020. They combine doom metal's oppressive weight with death metal's guttural ferocity.
Murska Sobota's Vasectomy grinds out brutal death metal from Slovenia's northeastern corner near the Hungarian border. Their punishing, no-frills approach to extremity channels the most aggressive end of the death metal spectrum.
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Vaskheim is a black metal project from Niederhasli, Switzerland, formed in 2017. The project channels the cold, atmospheric traditions of Scandinavian-influenced black metal from the Swiss underground.
Vass/Katsionis is a progressive metal project from Athens, Greece, formed in 2022. They craft technically ambitious progressive metal compositions.
Vast Chasm is a black metal project from the UK, formed in 2020. They deliver atmospheric, abyssal black metal.
Vast Night is an atmospheric black metal project from London, formed in 2022. They craft immersive, nocturnal atmospheric black metal.
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