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Featured Album
Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
05/15 @ Paribu Art - Ana Sahne, İstanbul
Featured Groove Metal Album
State Of Unrest (2023)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Veil of Decay is a heavy/progressive metal band from Erkelenz, Germany, formed in 2025. They blend the accessibility of heavy metal with progressive structures and technical ambition.
Veil of Ignorance is a death metal band from Hildesheim, Germany, formed in 2019. They pursue crushing, uncompromising death metal with thematic depth.
Veil of Mist is a symphonic/gothic/progressive metal band from Reims, France, formed in 2016. They weave symphonic orchestration, gothic atmospherics, and progressive structures into an elaborate metal tapestry.
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.
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