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Velorium is a post-black metal band from Pedro Leopoldo, Minas Gerais, whose sound expands beyond the genre's traditional confines to incorporate elements of doom, shoegaze, and post-rock. The band — featuring Tiago Magno on vocals and guitar, Marcelo Siuves on guitar, Anderlon Auder on bass, and Amazarak on drums — released the two-track record "Prisão de Carne" in 2017, exploring themes of loneliness, depression, and nostalgia.
Veltgensgraef is a raw black metal project from Veenendaal, Netherlands, formed in 2022. They deliver stripped-down, raw black metal from the Dutch underground.
Veltharion is a death/black metal band from Bahia, Brazil, consolidated in late 2025 and comprising Ana Falcão, Fábio Nephilim, Bruno Freire, and Danton Tyrannizer — musicians with prior experience in outfits such as Dark Heaven, Diabolic Empire, and Iron Wolves. The band released their debut single "Sustained By Suffering" in January 2026 and announced their first full-length album "Black Hole's Dance" for April 17, 2026 via Sangue Frio Productions, exploring themes of ego, existential nihilism, and criticism of religious manipulation.
Vasteras' Velum conjures atmospheric black metal with a focus on texture and mood, using tremolo-driven melodies and layered arrangements to build immersive sonic landscapes. Their contemplative approach prioritizes emotional depth over relentless aggression.
Veluspa is a groove/thrash metal band from Nienburg, Germany, formed in 2014. They combine groove metal's rhythmic weight with thrash metal's speed and precision.
Southern California's Velvet Merlin conjure stoner and doom metal from the sun-bleached coast of San Clemente, where fuzz tones and heavy grooves seem as natural as the Pacific breeze. Founded in 2020, they balance psych-tinged weightlessness with riff-first heaviness.
Velvet Roxxy is a heavy metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2023. They play classic heavy metal from the Greek capital.
Velvet Thorns is a death/doom metal band from Münster, Germany, formed in 2013. Their releases explore the intersection of death metal's aggression with doom's crushing slowness and melancholy.
Velvet Thorns is a solo ambient black and doom metal project from São Paulo, created by David Amorim and defined by melancholic, heavily atmospheric compositions that draw on doom, ambient, and experimental textures. The project released the album "Empty Soul" in 2013, followed by "In The Name of Reason" in 2017 — a record conceptually referencing the Colônia psychiatric hospital in Minas Gerais, where tens of thousands of lives were lost.
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