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Volcanic Circles is a progressive metal band from Lisieux, France, formed in 2013. They craft intricate progressive metal compositions with technical depth.
Saint Paul's Volcano Diving Inc have been at the groove/thrash/metalcore intersection since 2016, which is a noisier crossroads than it sounds — the groove metal chug, thrash precision, and metalcore aggression pull in different directions and the band's trick is keeping it from flying apart. The band name signals they're not taking themselves too seriously, but the music is built on legitimate riff craft underneath the attitude. Eight years in, they've made the combination feel like their own thing.
Volcanova is a stoner metal/rock band from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in 2020. Their albums "Radical Waves" and "Cosmic Bullshit" — the latter recorded at Studio Helviti and mastered by Esben Willems — deliver heavy, groove-laden stoner rock from the Icelandic underground.
Volharding — Dutch for "perseverance" — have been grinding out death metal from Toms River, New Jersey since 2014, the name suggesting a certain dogged, unfashionable commitment to the form. Their sound sits in the old-school death metal tradition: heavy, direct, more interested in impact than atmosphere, and suspicious of anything that might be called progressive. New Jersey's got underrated metal roots and Volharding fit comfortably in that rough-edged lineage.
Volition is a melodic death metal band from Münster, Germany, formed in 2024. They deliver melodic death metal with sweeping harmonies and dynamic arrangements.
Volja — Slavic for "will" or "freedom" — is an anonymous US-based raw black metal project that started in 2020 and operates in the deliberately primitive, confrontational space that defines the genre's rawer subculture. Without a fixed location to anchor them, their music reads as pure ideological expression: trebly, minimal, misanthropic, and unconcerned with accessibility. The name's Slavic connotations add a layer of ideological weight to what might otherwise read as pure sonic asceticism.
Jonkoping's Volkra inhabits the dark intersection of black and doom metal, crafting compositions that balance tremolo-driven fury with glacially paced heaviness. Their hybrid approach creates a sound both atmospherically bleak and crushingly physical.
Volos is a pagan metal band from Skopje, North Macedonia, formed in 2016. Named after the Slavic deity of earth and the underworld, they channel pagan themes through heavy metal.
Sacramento's Volrahven have been playing thrash/death metal since 2020, combining the Bay Area thrash tradition in their geographic vicinity with the more vicious end of death metal to produce something meaner than pure thrash and more riff-centered than pure death. California has an obvious claim on both genres and Volrahven work like a band that knows the history and wants to operate in the space between the two rather than settling for either. Four years in, the Sacramento underground has found a reliable representative.
Lisbon's Volt navigates the intricate terrain of progressive metal with dynamic compositions that shift between heavy riffing and atmospheric exploration. Their ambitious arrangements and technical proficiency reflect Portugal's growing reputation for adventurous metal.
Bielsko-Biala's Volt Ritual generates thick, fuzz-drenched grooves at the intersection of doom and stoner metal, channeling the psychedelic heaviness of Sleep and Electric Wizard. Their slow, riff-worshipping approach favors hypnotic repetition and massive distorted tone.
Voltane is a sludge/groove metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2020. They combine sludge metal's abrasive weight with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Voltron is a doom/sludge metal/metalcore band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2007. They combine the crushing low-end of sludge and doom with metalcore's breakdowns and aggressive energy.
Borlange's Volturyon has established themselves as one of Sweden's most ferocious death metal acts, delivering technically precise brutality across multiple releases. Their tight, blast-driven compositions channel the intensity of Suffocation and Morbid Angel through a distinctly Swedish execution.
Volucrine is a melodic death/progressive metal band from Kouvola, Finland, formed in 2014. They blend the melodic depth of death metal with progressive metal's structural complexity.
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