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Valefar is a black metal project from Syracuse, Sicily, formed in 2021. They deliver raw black metal from the ancient Sicilian city.
Filthy Dark Ambient (early); Black Metal / Dark Ambient (later) from Houston.
Valemon is a blackened heavy metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2017. Named after the white bear king of Norwegian folklore, they blend blackened atmospherics with traditional heavy metal.
Valenta is a black/thrash metal band from Beroun, Czech Republic, formed in 2025. They fuse the raw aggression of black metal with thrash metal's riff-driven velocity in the Czech underground.
Valentino Francavilla is a heavy/power metal project from Casier near Treviso, Italy, formed in 2018. The solo project delivers melodic heavy and power metal.
Valermada is a progressive metal band from Finland, formed in 2020. They explore complex progressive metal compositions with technical ambition.
Valfader is a stoner/post-metal band from Bath, England, formed in 2013. They combine stoner metal's heavy grooves with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
Valfariss is a melodic black/death metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2011. They blend melodic black metal's atmospheric sweep with death metal's ferocity.
Valfeanor is a one-man atmospheric black metal project from Weißpriach in the Austrian Alps, active since 2013 and released through Cursed Records. Their debut "The Eerie Constellation" blends psychedelic textures with raw black metal across extended compositions, drawing on themes of cosmic isolation and metaphysical introspection.
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