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Vulture God is a progressive metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2025. They craft intricate progressive metal compositions.
Bergen's Vulture Industries stands among Norway's most creative metal acts, combining avant-garde compositional ambition with progressive metal's technical demands. Their theatrical, boundary-pushing sound incorporates elements of cabaret, jazz, and dissonance into a framework that defies easy genre classification.
Hailing from Honefoss, Vulture Lord has been blending vicious black metal with thrash metal's rhythmic aggression since the late 1990s. Their blasphemous lyrical themes and high-velocity riffing recall the fury of early Destroyer 666 and Aura Noir.
Stockholm's Vulture Neck pairs doom metal's crushing weight with heavy metal's melodic sensibility, creating a hybrid that balances slow devastation with classic riffing. Their dynamic approach moves between ponderous heaviness and driving, hook-laden passages.
Toledo, Ohio black metal project formed in 2020, invoking Slavic mythological imagery through a raw and atmospheric approach to the genre. The name references Veles, the underworld deity of Slavic paganism, suggesting a thematic focus on death, nature, and ancient spiritual darkness.
Vulturic Eye is a progressive/heavy metal band from the UK, formed in 2016. They blend progressive complexity with heavy metal's power.
Vultus is a melodic death metal band from Guadalajara, Spain, formed in 2013. They play melodic death metal with harmonic guitar harmonies and technical precision.
Vultyrium is a black metal project from Lahti, Finland, formed in 2021. They deliver atmospheric black metal from the southern Finnish lakeland.
Vulva Intestines is a death/sludge metal/grindcore band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, active since 2002. They blend the repulsive extremes of grindcore with sludge and death metal's heaviness.
Vulvatorious is a black metal/crust band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2024. They fuse black metal's ferocity with crust punk's raw, political aggression.
Vulvectomy is a slam/brutal death metal band from Bari, Italy, formed in 2020. They deliver crushing slam death metal from the Pugliese underground.
Vuohenkieli is a black/death metal band from Hyvinkää, Finland, formed in 2019. They combine the darkness of black metal with death metal's brutality.
Vuolla is a melodic doom/death metal band from Jyväskylä, Finland, active since 2009. They blend the sorrowful melodies of doom metal with death metal's guttural intensity.
Vuosisata is an atmospheric black metal project from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2023. Their name meaning "century" in Finnish, they craft expansive atmospheric black metal.
Vurculac is a death metal band from Santiago de Compostela, Spain, active since 2004. They are one of the longer-running death metal acts in the Galician underground.
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