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Ville Lehto is a metalcore solo project from Kirkkonummi, Finland, formed in 2020. The project delivers metalcore compositions with technical guitar work and dynamic arrangements.
Vils Gueux is a black metal project from Nantes, France, formed in 2025. They channel raw black metal from the western French underground.
Vils Serpents is a black metal project from Évreux, France, formed in 2017. Their name translating to "vile serpents," they deliver raw, venomous black metal.
Linkoping's Vilt brings together death metal, groove metal, and melodic death metal into a versatile hybrid that draws from Gothenburg's melodeath legacy while incorporating modern rhythmic punch. Their compositions balance technical musicianship with accessible, headbanging-ready riffs.
Vimbulnatt is a black metal project from Elsterheide in Saxony, Germany, founded in 2019 and inspired by the nature and landscape of the Lusatia region. Their prolific output — including "Schattenpfade," "Totenwache," and "Der dunklen Tugenden" — channels emotions of anger, pain, and longing into what they describe as a constantly growing substance.
Atlanta's Vimur emerged in 2014 as one of the American South's more ferocious black metal acts, channeling the bleakness of the Scandinavian tradition through a distinctly American intensity. Their work is marked by relentless tremolo assaults and a compositional seriousness that sets them apart from the regional underground.
Formed in Los Angeles in 2019, Vin push death metal into dissonant, experimental territory — their avant-garde approach fragments conventional song structure in favor of something more unsettling and abstract. The band treats extreme metal as a malleable medium, bending its grammar until the familiar becomes genuinely strange.
Kyiv's Vin de Mia Trix crafts atmospheric death-doom metal with a distinctive, darkly romantic character. Their compositions merge death metal's crushing weight with doom metal's patient, sorrowful pacing, creating an emotionally resonant hybrid that has earned them recognition in Ukraine's underground.
Vinas is a heavy/thrash metal band from Hungary, active since 1993. They are one of the longer-running metal acts in the Hungarian underground.
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