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Formed in 2020 in Guilderland, New York, Vortex play heavy metal grounded in the hard-driving traditions of thrash with a no-frills, riff-first approach. The band leans into the kinetic energy of classic thrash while keeping the songwriting anchored in heavy metal's melodic instincts. Short on pretension and long on velocity, they represent the continuing vitality of the upstate New York metal underground.
Out of Oakland, California since 2016, Vortex of Narvik operates in the suffocating register of depressive black metal layered with ambient drift. The name evokes the desolate Arctic port city that became a symbol of brutal attrition, and the music follows suit — long, spiraling compositions that trade in anguish and cold isolation. Ambient passages erode into raw black metal without warning, keeping the listener perpetually off-balance.
Bratislava's Vortex Unit merges black and death metal into a savage hybrid that draws from both genres' most extreme tendencies. Their dual-genre attack creates compositions that alternate between atmospheric tremolo passages and crushing, guttural devastation.
Vortexed arrived from Clarksville, Tennessee in 2024 with a debut rooted in brutal death metal's most uncompromising traditions. As one of the younger entries in the brutal death scene, they came out swinging with dense low-end punishment and clinical rhythmic violence. The band wastes no time on subtlety — every track is a concentrated exercise in technical brutality.
Pittsburgh's Vortican formed in 2023 at the intersection of progressive metal, groove metal, and death metal — a combination that sets them apart in a city with a long industrial metal lineage. Their sound shifts between churning groove-driven riffs and more complex progressive structures, with death metal's weight underpinning the whole thing. Hard rock sensibility gives their songs a melodic accessibility that keeps even the heaviest sections from becoming purely punishing.
Vortices is a black metal project from England, formed in 2020. They deliver atmospheric black metal from the English underground.
Vortigan is a doom metal band from Hetzmannsdorf in Lower Austria, active since 2011 and self-described practitioners of "KingSizeUltraDoom." Their 2011 demo "The Last Judgement" is a single monolithic track spanning nearly 39 minutes of crushing, glacially paced doom.
Vorture is a black metal project from Finland, formed in 2019. The project pursues uncompromising black metal in the Finnish tradition.
Colossal Stoner / Doom Metal / Rock out of Texas.
Vosbúð is a black metal project from Iceland, formed in 2019. They channel raw black metal from the Nordic volcanic landscape.
Vosforis is an industrial black metal project from London, formed in 2024. They merge mechanized industrial textures with black metal's raw intensity.
Votan has been channeling epic black metal out of Corpus Christi, Texas since 2016, drawing on the mythological resonance of the Mesoamerican deity their name invokes. The South Texas coastal setting is an unlikely crucible for this kind of sweeping, grandiose black metal, which makes the project's ambitions feel more singular. Their compositions reach for the kind of mythic grandeur associated with European epic black metal while remaining rooted in their own cultural context.
Votive is an atmospheric sludge/post-metal band from Shropshire, England, formed in 2022. They blend atmospheric sludge with post-metal's expansive dynamics.
Charlotte, North Carolina's Votnut have been grinding since 2012, building a catalogue of short, furious grindcore that has no patience for anything that doesn't immediately attack. The band fits squarely within grindcore's tradition of radical brevity and maximum intensity, with songs that land like a series of quick body blows. More than a decade into their existence, they remain a stubborn fixture in the Southeast underground.
Connecticut's Vouroborus have been fusing blackened death metal and grindcore since 2015, carving out a niche in the dense, chaotic overlap between those extremes. The band's name evokes the ouroboros — the serpent consuming itself — which fits a sound built on cycles of escalating brutality and collapsing structure. Their approach draws equally from death metal's heaviness, black metal's atmosphere, and grindcore's violent concision.
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