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Chicago's Vile Secretion have been operating in the city's uncompromising death metal underground since 2017, delivering the kind of fleshy, old-school brutality that requires no explanation. The name tells you everything you need to know, and they deliver on every syllable of it.
Born in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 2025, Vile Serpent deal in raw black metal stripped to its rawest, most venomous essentials. Their home region — steeped in folklore, storms, and wide open plains — is perfect terrain for metal this cold and unadorned.
Istanbul's Vile Urn delivers aggressive metalcore from Turkey's largest city, pairing crushing breakdowns with melodic guitar leads. Their polished, modern approach channels Western metalcore influences through the energy of Istanbul's vibrant underground music scene.
Vasteras' Vilefuck delivers exactly the kind of unsubtle death-thrash their name promises, grinding through aggressive compositions that prioritize impact over finesse. Their confrontational approach channels the raw energy of Sweden's underground extreme metal scene.
Colorado's Vileness emerged in 2023 to practice black metal in its most unmediated, atmospheric form, drawing from their state's high-altitude isolation and long winters. Short on ceremony and long on misanthropic intent, they deliver darkness with a direct hand.
Vilethrone is a death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2024. They deliver crushing death metal from the Catalan underground.
Vili Kušen is a progressive/groove metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2021. They blend progressive metal's complexity with groove metal's rhythmic weight.
California's Vilis (Latin for "worthless" or "base") have navigated raw and depressive black metal's harrowing emotional terrain since 2015, using the genre's minimalism as a magnifying glass for despair. Their Bandcamp handle vilesxmd underscores the project's commitment to keeping things corroded and unpolished.
Vilitas is a black metal project from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2023. They deliver atmospheric black metal from the Alsatian underground.
Vilkates is a black metal band from Chemnitz, Germany, formed in 2014. They channel cold, aggressive black metal from the Saxonian underground scene.
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San Diego's Village of the Damned picked up the torch of late 1990s California death metal when they formed in 2024, continuing a lineage of brutality deeply embedded in the state's extreme metal scene. The name carries cult-horror weight that their sound fully justifies.
Villain in Me is a melodic power metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2022. They play anthemic melodic power metal with soaring vocals and driving guitar work.
Taby's Villainthropy occupies the unusual intersection of doom metal's crushing weight and thrash metal's velocity, creating compositions that shift between glacial heaviness and rapid-fire aggression. Their dynamic range sets them apart from more single-minded acts in either genre.
Ufa's Villainz United brings crossover thrash to the Urals, fusing hardcore punk's confrontational energy with thrash metal's technical riffing. Their high-velocity approach channels the circle-pit fury of Municipal Waste and Power Trip through a Russian lens.
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