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Veils is a metalcore band from Manchester, England, formed in 2012. They play aggressive, breakdown-heavy metalcore from the English north.
Cullman, Alabama's Veils of Purgatory blend doom metal's suffocating weight with post-metal's expansive, atmospheric reach — a 2025 project that already sounds ancient. Their music moves like sediment settling at the bottom of something deep and lightless.
Vein is a power/doom metal band from Denmark, formed in 2013. They merge the melodic grandeur of power metal with doom's crushing weight and deliberate pacing.
Vein of Hate is a technical death metal band from Gomel, Belarus, active since 2015. Their releases "Internal Enemy" and the 2017 promo "Non-organic Placebo for a Victim" showcase precise, technically demanding death metal with complex arrangements.
Veion is a heavy metal band from Hünfeld, Germany, formed in 2025. They play traditional heavy metal rooted in the classic European metal sound.
Veitsi is a black metal/punk band from Finland, formed in 2022. They fuse black metal's rawness with punk's velocity and stripped-down energy, their name meaning "knife" in Finnish.
Veivi is a heavy metal band from Turku, Finland, active since 2013, evolving from traditional heavy metal to incorporate industrial elements. Their sound bridges old-school Finnish metal with mechanized, industrial textures.
Vektor formed in Tempe, Arizona in 2004 — operating earlier under the name Locrian — and became one of the most acclaimed technical thrash metal acts of the 2010s through a style that grafted Voivod's dissonant science fiction atmosphere onto the most demanding end of thrash's technical tradition. Their debut Black Future (2009) received widespread critical recognition, and Terminal Redux (2016) on Earache Records is widely regarded as their most ambitious work, a concept album spanning progressive and extreme metal in roughly equal measure. Three studio albums document the band's career.
Vela Negra was a doom metal band from Brasília that sang in Portuguese and featured vocalist Zé Dai Hou alongside guitarists Vinicius Rispoli and Marcel Ianuck, bassist and visual artist Fabão Dourado, and drummer Tamiel Khan. The band released their debut single "O Inevitável Porvir" followed by the 2020 EP "Cemitério dos Vivos", whose cover art depicted Brasília's iconic monuments arranged into a skull — designed by Dourado himself.
Veladura Grisea is a progressive gothic metal band from Alicante, Spain, formed in 2025. They blend gothic metal's dark romanticism with progressive structures and atmospheric depth.
Velastria is a blackened thrash metal band from Belgium, formed in 2025 with lyrical themes centered on the chaos and horror of warfare. Their debut concept album "War Delusion" explores the horrors of past and future conflicts through relentless blackened thrash.
Velatorio is a blackened death metal band from Paso del Rey, in the Greater Buenos Aires area, releasing their four-track demo in March 2023 through DVRecords with tracks including "Rigor Mortis," "Guillotina," "Marcas Satanicas," and "Irreversible." The band also contributed the track "Huesos y Estacas" to the DVRecords compilation "Toca Rapido o Muere" in 2023.
Kirov's Velaverante creates lush symphonic metal infused with gothic elements, layering orchestral arrangements over heavy guitar foundations. Their ambitious compositions pair dramatic keyboard work with emotional vocal performances in the tradition of European symphonic metal.
Veld is a death metal band from Vitebsk, Belarus, with a substantial discography including "End Of All," "Infested With Rats Life," "DAEMONIC: The Art Of Dantalian," and "S.I.N. Spawned In Nothingness." Their unrelenting death metal output has positioned them as one of the more prolific extreme metal acts in the Belarusian underground.
Velde is a post-black metal/rock band from Brest, France, active since 2011. They blend the atmospheric expansiveness of post-rock with black metal's intensity from the Brittany coast.
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