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Uzhhorod's Vaginnal Headshot merges raw black metal's lo-fi aggression with metalcore's breakdown-heavy approach from Ukraine's westernmost city on the Slovak border. Their confrontational hybrid channels the Transcarpathian underground's uncompromising spirit.
Vagrant is a heavy/thrash/death metal band from Sliven, Bulgaria, active since 2004. They blend the intensity of death metal with thrash's velocity and traditional heavy metal's structural foundations in the Bulgarian underground scene.
Vague is a heavy metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2018. They play traditional heavy metal from the Finnish north.
Vague à Lame is a raw black metal/dungeon synth project from France, formed in 2022. They blend the rawness of black metal with dungeon synth's medieval atmosphere.
Vahladian is a progressive power metal band from Valencia, Spain, formed in 2020. They blend progressive metal's technical ambition with power metal's melodic grandeur.
Vahévahian is a black metal project from Buenos Aires, Argentina, helmed by the musician known as Tantalvs, whose work draws on Armenian mythology and history for its lyrical and conceptual framework. The project released the cassette EP "Vishabakagh" in 2013 — its title referencing the Armenian mythological dragon-slayer — followed by the cassette EP "Wrath of Baalshamin" in 2015, both issued in limited physical editions.
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Vaina is an avant-garde black metal, dark ambient, and noise project from Finland, formed in 2017. The project pushes extreme boundaries by merging avant-garde black metal with dark ambient and noise experimentation.
Vainaja is a three-piece death/doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2011 and performing entirely in Finnish. Their albums — including "Kadotetut," "Verenvalaja," and "Kiviristi" — are concept-driven narratives based on encrypted historical events, combining crushing riffs with dark melodies in what has been called one of the heaviest Finnish-language records.
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