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Vaginal Cassoulet is a brutal death metal/grindcore band from Laval, France, active since 2011. They combine brutal death metal's heaviness with grindcore's chaos and a darkly humorous French identity.
Vaginal Purulence is a death metal band from Angers, France, formed in 2016. They deliver graphic, visceral death metal from the western French underground.
Uzhhorod's Vaginnal Headshot merges raw black metal's lo-fi aggression with metalcore's breakdown-heavy approach from Ukraine's westernmost city on the Slovak border. Their confrontational hybrid channels the Transcarpathian underground's uncompromising spirit.
Vagrant is a heavy/thrash/death metal band from Sliven, Bulgaria, active since 2004. They blend the intensity of death metal with thrash's velocity and traditional heavy metal's structural foundations in the Bulgarian underground scene.
Vague is a heavy metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2018. They play traditional heavy metal from the Finnish north.
Vague à Lame is a raw black metal/dungeon synth project from France, formed in 2022. They blend the rawness of black metal with dungeon synth's medieval atmosphere.
Vahladian is a progressive power metal band from Valencia, Spain, formed in 2020. They blend progressive metal's technical ambition with power metal's melodic grandeur.
Vahévahian is a black metal project from Buenos Aires, Argentina, helmed by the musician known as Tantalvs, whose work draws on Armenian mythology and history for its lyrical and conceptual framework. The project released the cassette EP "Vishabakagh" in 2013 — its title referencing the Armenian mythological dragon-slayer — followed by the cassette EP "Wrath of Baalshamin" in 2015, both issued in limited physical editions.
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