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Vampiro is a black metal project from Leicester, England, formed in 2018. The project channels dark, vampiric themes through raw black metal.
Vampiroteutis Infernalis was a solo black metal project from Taboão da Serra, São Paulo, Brazil, operated entirely by the musician known as Old (Freak Funebre). The project released a self-titled cassette in 2022 — limited to 50 copies — consisting of two sprawling tracks of approximately twenty-two and twenty-three minutes each, before going defunct.
Few bands have the tenure of Nacogdoches' Vampyre Deth, who have been stalking the East Texas underground since 1987. Decades into their existence, they remain committed to old-school death metal — raw, lurching, and stubbornly resistant to modern polish.
A solitary black metal project emerging from the American underground in 2023, Vampyric Elegy traffics in cold atmosphere and nocturnal melancholy. Their sound feels like a funeral processional played in a pitch-black forest — deliberately paced and soaked in dread.
Virginia's Vampyric Sword arrived in 2025 as a raw black metal entity fixated on medieval darkness and vampiric mystique. Even in their infancy, the project channels a dungeon-worn ferocity with a distinctly archaic edge.
Seixal's Vampyro channels the dark, nocturnal side of Portuguese black metal, wrapping vampiric themes in raw tremolo riffs and blast-driven fury. Their sound draws from the first-wave black metal tradition of Bathory and Venom.
Vampyromorpha is a heavy/doom metal duo from Würzburg, Germany, founded in 2014 by Nemes Black and Jim Grant, who describes their work as "adult oriented doom metal" with Hammond organ. Across releases from their 2015 self-titled debut to 2019's "Herzog," they draw on disturbing horror cinema, dark storytelling, and themes of mental anguish.
Vampíra is a black metal project from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in 2024. They channel raw black metal from the volcanic Nordic island.
Van Canto is a pioneering a cappella metal ensemble from Bingen am Rhein, Germany, active since 2006 and known for replacing guitars with vocal "riffing." Their eight studio albums — from 2010's "Hero" through 2021's "To The Power Of Eight" — prove that metal can be devastatingly heavy without a single guitar riff, earning them festival slots at Wacken and 70,000 Tons of Metal.
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