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Viletale is a blackened death metal band from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, active since 2016, whose output draws heavily on H.P. Lovecraft's mythology. The band built their discography through a succession of EPs — including "From the Depths Ov Mind" (2017) and "The Suicide of Dei" (2017) — before issuing their first full-length, "Land of Thousand Pleasures," in December 2018.
Vilethrone is a death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2024. They deliver crushing death metal from the Catalan underground.
Vili Kušen is a progressive/groove metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2021. They blend progressive metal's complexity with groove metal's rhythmic weight.
Vilipêndio is a speed/thrash and hardcore crossover band from Rio de Janeiro, formed in 2012, fusing the aggression of Brazil's thrash tradition with hardcore punk energy. The band appeared on a limited three-way split cassette alongside Espectro Tenebroso and A.N.T.I.L.I.V., released on Arte Ancestral Records in December 2019 in a run of 33 copies.
California's Vilis (Latin for "worthless" or "base") have navigated raw and depressive black metal's harrowing emotional terrain since 2015, using the genre's minimalism as a magnifying glass for despair. Their Bandcamp handle vilesxmd underscores the project's commitment to keeping things corroded and unpolished.
Vilitas is a black metal project from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2023. They deliver atmospheric black metal from the Alsatian underground.
Vilkates is a black metal band from Chemnitz, Germany, formed in 2014. They channel cold, aggressive black metal from the Saxonian underground scene.
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San Diego's Village of the Damned picked up the torch of late 1990s California death metal when they formed in 2024, continuing a lineage of brutality deeply embedded in the state's extreme metal scene. The name carries cult-horror weight that their sound fully justifies.
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