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Columbus, Ohio's Voidgazer formed in 2024, working in heavy metal and hard rock territory — a band grounded in traditional heavy metal songwriting rather than extreme subgenres, focused on building songs that carry actual weight without necessarily reaching for maximum brutality. Columbus has a long tradition of no-nonsense Midwestern rock and metal, and Voidgazer fit that lineage. A young band finding their footing in familiar but well-loved territory.
Voidhaven is a doom/death metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2018. They combine the crushing weight of doom with death metal's guttural intensity and oppressive atmosphere.
Voidhra is a black metal project from Friedrichshafen, Germany, formed in 2021. The project delivers atmospheric black metal from the shores of Lake Constance.
Voidhämmer emerged from Long Beach in 2026 dragging the grime of crust punk straight into the decomposing mouth of death metal. Their sound is all blunt force and corroded edges — d-beat propulsion colliding with churning, low-tuned riffs that owe as much to Discharge as to early Entombed. A new band with old hatreds, and no interest in being pleasant about it.
Voidian is a doom/sludge/post-metal band from Limburg in Flanders, Belgium, formed in 2019 and described as spitting out "droning psychedelic dream sequences" over massive doom and sludge foundations. Their 2020 debut album "Through Eyes of the Flame" spans five tracks over 49 minutes, released on limited vinyl pressings through DUNK!PRESSINGS.
Boston's VoidKeeper arrived in 2022 with a blackened death metal sound that leans hard into controlled chaos — blastbeat intensity checked by moments of eerie, harmonically unsettling riffwork. The New England setting feels fitting; there's a cold, grey hostility to what they do that puts atmosphere ahead of brutality for brutality's sake. A young band already operating with unusual compositional focus.
Voidkosm is a blackened death metal project from Chemnitz, Germany, formed in 2025. They fuse the chaos of blackened metal with death metal's brutality.
Voidkush is a black/death/doom metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2018. They merge the crushing weight of doom with black and death metal's ferocity for a triple-threat of heaviness.
Voidkvlt Terror is a blackened doom metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, active since 2024. The band released the EP Abstrato in 2024, marking their entry into the underground Brazilian extreme metal scene.
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