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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from Dallas.
Vaulting is a technical death metal/grindcore band from Wiesbaden, Germany, active since 2007. They combine grindcore's chaotic brevity with death metal's technical precision for a punishing extreme metal assault.
Vaultrust is an atmospheric black metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2017. They craft immersive, layered atmospheric black metal from the Spanish capital.
Vaurien is a raw black metal/ambient project from Paris, France, formed in 2018. Their name meaning "scoundrel" in French, they blend raw black metal with ambient passages.
Vauruvã is a two-person progressive black metal project from Rio de Janeiro: multi-instrumentalist Caio Lemos composes and records everything beneath the vocals and lyrics of Bruno Augusto Ribeiro. Since their 2021 debut Manso Queimor Dacordado — later picked up for a physical release by Pest Productions — the band has woven atmospheric black metal together with Brazilian and indigenous folk textures, culminating in the 2025 album Mar da Deriva, a three-track, thirty-five-minute work recorded between spring 2024 and autumn 2025.
Vazgar is a black metal project from the UK, formed in 2025. They pursue raw, uncompromising black metal.
Vazio emerged from São Paulo in 2017 with a self-titled EP that announced a band fluent in raw, occult-charged black metal — a sound the four-piece (Renato Gimenez on vocals and guitar, Eric Nefus Cavalcante on guitar, Nilson Slaughter on bass, and Daniel Vecchi on drums) has refined across a series of splits and full-lengths including Necrocosmos. Their themes span the void, Quimbanda, necromancy, and dark spiritualism, rooting their music in Brazil's own esoteric traditions alongside orthodox black metal grimness.
VCTMS are an Illinois metalcore band whose music is built around groove, breakdown pressure, and an atmosphere of emotional damage. Emerging in the 2010s heavy scene, the group developed a catalog through the Vol. series and later releases that combine nu-metal bounce, metallic hardcore impact, depressive lyric themes, and abrupt rhythmic shifts. Rather than chasing glossy arena metalcore, VCTMS often keep their sound claustrophobic, with harsh vocals, downtuned guitars, samples, and percussion arranged to feel anxious and unstable. Songs such as "Sick // Tired," "Hell Is Other People," "Carefully // Caged," and "The Words I Never Said" show the band's preference for blunt catharsis over technical display. Their scope is directly metal and metalcore, with enough alternative-metal and nu-metal influence to make the songs feel contemporary rather than strictly old-school hardcore. VCTMS' appeal lies in mood as much as riffing. The music sounds worn down, angry, and confrontational, built for listeners who want heavy music to acknowledge panic, resentment, and isolation without smoothing the edges.
VDBS is a thrash metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2015. They play aggressive, fast-paced thrash metal from the Alsatian underground.
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