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Vargrimm is a black metal band from Berlin, Germany, formally established in January 2008 though all members had prior involvement in other metal acts. Their releases "Des Wolfes Zorn" and "Vom Wolf unter Schafen" channel German-language black metal with a wolf-themed conceptual identity.
Vargsheim is a black metal band from Würzburg, Germany, active since 2007 and blending raw and melodic black metal with unexpected influences from grunge and classic rock. Their extensive discography includes splits with Imperium Dekadenz and Hlidskjalf, with a sound the band insists "never sounds like patchwork" despite its eclectic roots.
Swedish project Vargthron delivers raw black metal with a deliberately lo-fi aesthetic that embraces tape distortion and minimal production. Their primitive approach strips the genre to its most hostile core, favoring atmosphere and aggression over clarity.
Philadelphia's Varials deal in a suffocating strain of metallic hardcore that draws equally from beatdown and death metal, punctuated by crushing low-tuned breakdowns and vocalist Travis Tabron's venomous delivery. Albums like 'Pain Again' and 'In Darkness' showcase a band unafraid to push heaviness to its most oppressive extremes.
Norrkoping's Varices brings together death metal's crushing weight, groove metal's rhythmic punch, and melodic death metal's soaring harmonies into a versatile hybrid. Their multi-faceted approach keeps compositions dynamic and unpredictable.
Variscythe is a melodic death/groove metal band from The Hague, Netherlands, formed in 2015. They blend melodic death metal's harmonies with groove metal's rhythmic heaviness.
Varix is a thrash metal band from Weingarten, Germany. They deliver aggressive, riff-heavy thrash metal in the tradition of German thrash.
Varkals is a thrash metal band from the Kurzeme region of Latvia, active since 2004. They are one of the longer-running thrash acts in the Latvian underground.
Varken is a black metal project from the UK, formed in 2021. They deliver raw, atmospheric black metal.
Varkodya is a melodic death metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2014. They deliver melodic death metal with harmonic guitar work from southern France.
Moscow's Varlam channels cold, misanthropic black metal with the intensity and aggression that characterizes Russia's deep black metal underground. Their compositions favor relentless tremolo work and blast-driven fury over atmospheric subtlety.
San Jose's Varnok have been sharpening their Bay Area-rooted thrash since 2014, keeping the tradition of crunching riffs and rapid-fire drumming alive in the shadow of the genre's greatest proving ground. They play thrash as an act of reverence — and aggression.
Varon is a gothic/death metal band from Osterhofen, Germany, formed in 2016. They merge gothic metal's dark romantic atmospherics with death metal's heaviness and growled vocals.
Varso is a progressive metal band from Miskolc, Hungary, formed in 2021. They craft technically ambitious progressive metal compositions.
Varyag is a Viking metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2020. They channel Norse themes and warrior mythology through heavy, epic metal.
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