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Valar Morghulis is an epic heavy/melodic death metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2022. Named after the Game of Thrones phrase meaning "all men must die," they combine epic heavy metal grandeur with melodic death metal aggression.
Kiruna's Valarauk delivers crushing death-doom from above the Arctic Circle, channeling the extreme northern Swedish climate's oppressive darkness into slow, heavy compositions. Their geographic remoteness infuses their music with a genuine sense of desolation.
Valaraukar is a black metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 2018. Named after the Balrogs of Tolkien's Silmarillion, they deliver atmospheric black metal from the Scottish capital.
Valdaudr is a black/thrash metal band from Kristiansand, Norway, active since 2005. They fuse black metal's darkness with thrash's riff-driven velocity from southern Norway.
Vale of Tears is a gothic/melodic death metal band from Karcag, Hungary, formed in 2023. They evolved from gothic/death metal origins toward a more melodic death metal sound.
Valefar is a black metal project from Syracuse, Sicily, formed in 2021. They deliver raw black metal from the ancient Sicilian city.
Filthy Dark Ambient (early); Black Metal / Dark Ambient (later) from Houston.
Valemon is a blackened heavy metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2017. Named after the white bear king of Norwegian folklore, they blend blackened atmospherics with traditional heavy metal.
Valenta is a black/thrash metal band from Beroun, Czech Republic, formed in 2025. They fuse the raw aggression of black metal with thrash metal's riff-driven velocity in the Czech underground.
Valentino Francavilla is a heavy/power metal project from Casier near Treviso, Italy, formed in 2018. The solo project delivers melodic heavy and power metal.
Valermada is a progressive metal band from Finland, formed in 2020. They explore complex progressive metal compositions with technical ambition.
Valfader is a stoner/post-metal band from Bath, England, formed in 2013. They combine stoner metal's heavy grooves with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
Valfariss is a melodic black/death metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2011. They blend melodic black metal's atmospheric sweep with death metal's ferocity.
Valfeanor is a one-man atmospheric black metal project from Weißpriach in the Austrian Alps, active since 2013 and released through Cursed Records. Their debut "The Eerie Constellation" blends psychedelic textures with raw black metal across extended compositions, drawing on themes of cosmic isolation and metaphysical introspection.
Valgaldar is a pagan metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2015. Their sound combines heavy metal instrumentation with pagan thematic elements drawn from Germanic pre-Christian traditions.
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