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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Iowa's Veil of the Forsaken emerged in 2023 with a black metal sound shaped by the barren, flat expanses of the upper Midwest — cold, unpopulated, and unforgiving. Their music captures the feeling of being abandoned somewhere with no horizon in sight.
Pennsylvania's Veiled operate in the black metal underground with intentional obscurity, a 2022 project whose anonymity reinforces the music's atmosphere of concealment and menace. What little emerges from behind the veil is bleak and unadorned.
Veils is a metalcore band from Manchester, England, formed in 2012. They play aggressive, breakdown-heavy metalcore from the English north.
Cullman, Alabama's Veils of Purgatory blend doom metal's suffocating weight with post-metal's expansive, atmospheric reach — a 2025 project that already sounds ancient. Their music moves like sediment settling at the bottom of something deep and lightless.
Vein is a power/doom metal band from Denmark, formed in 2013. They merge the melodic grandeur of power metal with doom's crushing weight and deliberate pacing.
Vein of Hate is a technical death metal band from Gomel, Belarus, active since 2015. Their releases "Internal Enemy" and the 2017 promo "Non-organic Placebo for a Victim" showcase precise, technically demanding death metal with complex arrangements.
Veion is a heavy metal band from Hünfeld, Germany, formed in 2025. They play traditional heavy metal rooted in the classic European metal sound.
Veitsi is a black metal/punk band from Finland, formed in 2022. They fuse black metal's rawness with punk's velocity and stripped-down energy, their name meaning "knife" in Finnish.
Veivi is a heavy metal band from Turku, Finland, active since 2013, evolving from traditional heavy metal to incorporate industrial elements. Their sound bridges old-school Finnish metal with mechanized, industrial textures.
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