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Váboði is a black metal project from Iceland, formed in 2013. They deliver atmospheric, raw black metal from the Icelandic underground.
Váli is a drone/doom metal band from Essex, England, formed in 2013. They deliver crushing, minimalist drone doom from the English southeast.
Vándr is a black/death metal band from the Derbyshire/Nottingham area of England, formed in 2020. They combine black metal's atmospheric darkness with death metal's ferocity.
Romanian project Varcolac, named after the Romanian mythological creature similar to a werewolf, delivers raw black metal steeped in Carpathian folklore. Their compositions evoke the transformative, bestial nature of their namesake through feral tremolo work and savage percussion.
Väestönsuoja is a grindcore/death metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 2020. Their name meaning "bomb shelter" in Finnish, they deliver explosive grindcore and death metal.
Väet is a black/doom/pagan metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2024. They merge the weight of doom with the darkness of black metal and pagan thematic elements.
Stockholm's Vakaren, whose name means "the guardian" in Swedish, delivers fierce black metal from the Swedish capital. Their aggressive compositions channel the intensity of the Scandinavian black metal tradition through relentless tremolo work and blast-driven percussion.
Linkoping's Vardelos, whose name means "worthless" in Swedish, crafts nihilistic black metal with a raw, confrontational edge. Their stripped-down approach reflects the self-negating spirit of their name through hostile, uncompromising compositions.
Våld is a thrash metal/crust/crossover band from Karjaa, Finland, formed in 2025. They fuse thrash metal's speed with crust punk's raw aggression and crossover energy.
Binghamton, New York death metal act operating under the Swedish word for "apparition" or "ghost," a name that hints at a sound influenced by the spectral, rotten-sounding Swedish death metal tradition. Active since 2012, they've quietly maintained a presence in the upstate New York underground.
Operating between Kramfors and Sundsvall in northern Sweden, Vanda channels the isolation of Angermanland into anguished black metal. Their compositions draw on the cold, remote character of the High Coast region, creating music steeped in genuine Nordic desolation.
Vægtløs is an atmospheric post-black metal/shoegaze band from Aalborg, Denmark, formed in 2022, creating "extreme music with emotional lyrics." Their releases — including "Aftryk" and splits with Mill and Taagebue — blend the intensity of black metal with the dreamy textures of shoegaze.
Vætte is a blackened folk metal project from Denmark, formed in 2025. They fuse the aggression of black metal with folk metal's melodic and cultural elements.
Vér is a death metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2021. Their name meaning "blood" in Hungarian, they deliver aggressive death metal.
Oregon black metal project formed in 2025 under a heavily diacritical name that reads as deliberately cryptic and anti-legible — a statement in itself about obscurity and esoteric intent. A brand-new entry in the Pacific Northwest black metal underground, with the aesthetics of a project designed to resist easy categorization or consumption.
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