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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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The King Live In Paris (24-bit HD Audio) (2024)
05/02 @ The Clyde Theatre - Fort Wayne, IN, Fort Wayne
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Veteris is a black/speed metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2015. They fuse black metal's ferocity with speed metal's relentless velocity.
Vetha is a technical death/groove metal band from Normandy, France, formed in 2014. They combine technical death metal's precision with groove metal's rhythmic heaviness.
Vetitum is a gothic/doom metal band from Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, active since the early 2000s and built around themes of sadness, loneliness, and gloom. The band's current lineup includes Nany Yates on vocals, Gustavo Knopp on bass, Luisa Branco on drums, and Paula Oliveira on guitar.
Boston's Vetsynis bring a thrash metal attack forged in one of the Northeast's most storied metal cities, active since 2020 and carrying on a tradition the region helped define. Their approach is high-velocity, riff-forward, and uninterested in concessions to modern production trends.
Vetten Äpärät is a folk metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2014. They play Finnish folk metal, their name translating to "bastards of the wilderness."
Vetter is a folk black metal band from Birkeland, Norway, formed in 2015. They weave Norwegian folk traditions into a black metal framework.
Vettt is a doom/sludge metal band from Nuremberg, Germany, founded in 2018 in an 8-square-meter practice space, self-described as being "on a mission to make the world a better place with more distortion." Their debut demo "-ish" was recorded live in a single session, capturing raw, noise-drenched sludge and doom.
Vetur is a black metal project from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in 2013. Their name meaning "winter" in Icelandic, they channel cold, atmospheric black metal.
Barnaul's Veturheim draws from Norse mythology and the harsh Siberian landscape to craft raw, atmospheric black metal. Their compositions merge second-wave Scandinavian influences with the frigid vastness of the Altai region.
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