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Vast Night is an atmospheric black metal project from London, formed in 2022. They craft immersive, nocturnal atmospheric black metal.
Vast Pyre is a stoner/doom metal band from Eisenach, Germany, formed in 2024, inviting listeners to "dive into a world of heavy-hypnotising riffs and unhinged souls." Their releases deliver slow, crushing stoner doom with hypnotic repetition and oppressive atmosphere.
Vast Slug is a grindcore band from Norwich, England, formed in 2019. They deliver chaotic, blast-beat-driven grindcore from East Anglia.
Vastago is a black/death metal band from Valencia, Spain, formed in 2015. They deliver intense extreme metal combining the darkness of black metal with death metal's brutality.
Vastarien is the solo project of Maceió-based multi-instrumentalist Rodrigo Lacerda, who handles all instruments, vocals, and production himself. Formed in 2021, the project works a seam of death, doom, and black metal saturated with themes of pessimism, anti-natalism, and cosmic horror — documented across the debut album nothing HAS to be (March 2021) and the two-track EP Cadaveric Fauna / Derealization, self-recorded at Sempiternum Studios in Maceió and released in March 2023.
Vastator is a black metal project from Hesse, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver raw, aggressive black metal from the German underground.
Gliwice's Vates drives hard with a death-thrash hybrid that channels the aggressive spirit of Kreator and early Sepultura through a modern Polish metal lens. Their tight, riff-centric approach favors rhythmic precision and controlled fury.
Vatican Spectrum is a thrash metal band from Cartagena, Spain, formed in 2022. They play aggressive, riff-driven thrash metal from the Spanish Mediterranean coast.
Vatikan is a black metal band from Karlsruhe, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver raw, blasphemous black metal channeling the anti-religious fervor suggested by their provocative name.
Vattnet Viskar — Swedish for "the water is whispering" — formed in Plaistow, New Hampshire in 2010 and played atmospheric black metal that incorporated post-rock dynamics and shoegaze texture alongside conventional black metal extremity. Their debut full-length Sky Swallower (2013) was followed by Settler (2015) on Century Media Records, which expanded the band's sonic palette into more expansive, melodic territory. The band renamed themselves Vattnet in 2016 and released a final self-titled album in 2017 before disbanding.
Vature is a black/post-metal band from Kiel, Germany, formed in 2017. They merge the atmospheric expansiveness of post-metal with black metal's intensity and aggression.
Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from Dallas.
Vaulting is a technical death metal/grindcore band from Wiesbaden, Germany, active since 2007. They combine grindcore's chaotic brevity with death metal's technical precision for a punishing extreme metal assault.
Vaultrust is an atmospheric black metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2017. They craft immersive, layered atmospheric black metal from the Spanish capital.
Vaurien is a raw black metal/ambient project from Paris, France, formed in 2018. Their name meaning "scoundrel" in French, they blend raw black metal with ambient passages.
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