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Soaring Progressive Power Metal from San Antonio.
Verstümmelung is a solo depressive/post-black metal project created by Tobias in Salzburg, Austria, exploring themes of emptiness, melancholy, and emotional turmoil. Originally rooted in raw black metal, the project evolved toward post-black metal and dark folk textures across releases like "Drowning in Nostalgia" and the collaborative "Dei Winta mei Åbgrund" with Perditus.
Versus God is a thrash metal/hardcore band from Regensburg, Germany, formed in 2025. They combine thrash metal's speed and intensity with hardcore's confrontational attitude.
Versya is an industrial/melodic death metal/metalcore band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2014. They fuse industrial textures and electronic elements with melodic death metal and metalcore aggression.
Vertebrae is a death/black metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2015. They combine the ferocity of black and death metal in the Spanish extreme metal underground.
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Vertikal is a five-piece post-metal band from Brno, Czech Republic, formed in 2017, featuring the unusual addition of saxophone alongside guitars, bass, and drums. Their 2017 album "One" and 2023 single "The Edge" showcase atmospheric, meticulously crafted post-metal with a DIY recording approach.
Verum is an industrial metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2019. They blend mechanized industrial textures with heavy metal's power for a cold, precise sonic assault.
Verwahrlosen is an atmospheric doom/black metal project from Germany, formed in 2021. The project merges the crushing weight of doom with black metal's bleakness in immersive atmospheric compositions.
Verwoed is a black metal band from Utrecht, Netherlands, formed in 2014. They channel atmospheric black metal from the Dutch heartland.
Verzauber is a black metal project from Cork, Ireland, formed in 2023. They deliver atmospheric black metal from the Irish southwest.
Vesen is a black/thrash metal band from Oslo/Romerike, Norway, formed in 2023. They fuse black metal's raw intensity with thrash's riff-driven aggression.
Vesperal is a black metal project from Nice, France, formed in 2017. They deliver atmospheric black metal from the French Riviera.
Active since 1994, one of Texas's longest-running black metal acts. Released records on Displeased Records and The Path Less Traveled.
Vespillo is a black metal project from Greece, formed in 2025. They deliver atmospheric black metal from the Greek underground.
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