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Vacantfield is an avant-garde black metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2011. They push black metal's boundaries with avant-garde and experimental approaches.
Vacarme is a brutal death metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2025. They deliver punishing brutal death metal from the Alsatian underground.
Vacivus is a death metal band from Sunderland, England, active since 2014 with releases including "Annihilism," "Temple Of The Abyss," and "Nuclear Chaos." They deliver uncompromising death metal from the northeast English underground.
Vacua is a black metal project from Rome, Italy, formed in 2023. They deliver atmospheric black metal from the Italian capital.
Vacuous is a death metal band from London, formed in 2020. They play crushing, filthy death metal from the British capital.
Vad is a pagan black metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2008. They channel pagan themes and Iberian identity through aggressive black metal.
Vade Aratro is a heavy metal band from San Giovanni in Persiceto near Bologna, Italy, active since 2008 and incorporating folk and thrash influences. Their name combining the Latin "vade" (go) with "aratro" (plough), they blend traditional heavy metal with folk and thrash elements.
One of Poland's most internationally renowned and longest-running extreme metal acts, Vader has been delivering relentless death-thrash since 1983, led by the tireless Piotr "Peter" Wiwczarek. Albums like "Litany," "De Profundis," and "The Ultimate Incantation" cemented their status as death metal royalty.
Vadok is a raw black metal/dungeon synth project from Reading, England, formed in 2024. They blend raw black metal with the medieval atmosphere of dungeon synth.
Vae Solis is a thrash/melodic death metal band from Yorkshire, England, formed in 2019. They combine thrash metal's speed with melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility.
Vaelk is a black metal project from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, formed in 2017. The project draws on the atmospheric and raw traditions of German black metal.
Vaellus is a doom/gothic metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2025. They blend doom metal's crushing weight with gothic metal's dark atmospheric beauty.
Vaenir is a one-man atmospheric black metal, doom, and instrumental project from Bulgaria, formed in 2020. Tampering with melancholic sounds and drawing inspiration from nature, history, and the realms of imagination, releases like "From The Ashes Of The Undone" and the remastered "Simulcarum" showcase sprawling atmospheric compositions.
Vaevictis is a progressive metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2020. They craft progressive metal compositions from one of England's historic metal cities.
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.
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