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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.
Vauruvã is a two-person progressive black metal project from Rio de Janeiro: multi-instrumentalist Caio Lemos composes and records everything beneath the vocals and lyrics of Bruno Augusto Ribeiro. Since their 2021 debut Manso Queimor Dacordado — later picked up for a physical release by Pest Productions — the band has woven atmospheric black metal together with Brazilian and indigenous folk textures, culminating in the 2025 album Mar da Deriva, a three-track, thirty-five-minute work recorded between spring 2024 and autumn 2025.
Vazgar is a black metal project from the UK, formed in 2025. They pursue raw, uncompromising black metal.
Vazio emerged from São Paulo in 2017 with a self-titled EP that announced a band fluent in raw, occult-charged black metal — a sound the four-piece (Renato Gimenez on vocals and guitar, Eric Nefus Cavalcante on guitar, Nilson Slaughter on bass, and Daniel Vecchi on drums) has refined across a series of splits and full-lengths including Necrocosmos. Their themes span the void, Quimbanda, necromancy, and dark spiritualism, rooting their music in Brazil's own esoteric traditions alongside orthodox black metal grimness.
VDBS is a thrash metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2015. They play aggressive, fast-paced thrash metal from the Alsatian underground.
Vebrifuge is a speed/thrash metal band from Bocholt, Germany, formed in 2018. They deliver high-velocity thrash and speed metal in the tradition of the German thrash movement.
Vecordious is a black/death metal band from Trondheim, Norway, active since 2011. They combine the ferocity of black and death metal from the Trøndelag underground.
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