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Vile Disgust is a death metal/grindcore band from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2009. They combine death metal's brutality with grindcore's chaotic intensity.
Vile Existence was a brutal death metal band from São Paulo, formed in 2020 around a lineup of Eliézer Henrique on vocals, Evandro Miranda and Felipe Silva on guitars, Juan Azevedo on bass, and Junior Bruxo on drums. The band released the single "Dimensional Cosmic Paradox" in January 2021, framing it as an artifact of cosmic horror and the first step toward a debut album before ultimately splitting up.
Vile Extortion is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2019. They combine melodic death metal's harmonies with thrash metal's velocity.
Devastating Slam / Brutal Death Metal from Dickinson.
Los Angeles' Vile Invokation summon the blackened death metal tradition with occult deliberateness since their 2022 founding, treating each track as a genuine rite rather than a performance. The city's sprawling darkness provides fertile ground for the kind of sinister atmosphere they conjure.
Trencin's Vile Justice brings crossover thrash energy to Slovakia, fusing hardcore punk's confrontational attitude with thrash metal's precise, rapid-fire riffing. Their high-octane approach channels the pit-ready energy of classic crossover acts.
Talkeetna, Alaska's Vile Rebirth write doom/death metal from one of the most remote and desolate settings imaginable, and the isolation audibly seeps into their glacially slow tempos and mournful density. Since 2020, they've turned the brutal Alaskan wilderness into a sound.
Cincinnati's Vile Sanctum launched in 2023 bridging groove metal's kinetic swagger and metalcore's angular precision into something that hits the body first and the brain second. The band's name gestures at ritual while the music keeps both feet planted firmly in the pit.
Vile Scavengers is a death metal/grindcore band from Burgos, Spain, formed in 2022. They combine death metal's brutality with grindcore's chaotic velocity.
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