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Ukrainian project Vintregal crafts atmospheric black metal with a focus on cold, immersive textures and sweeping compositional arcs. Their compositions build gradually through layered tremolo melodies and dynamic shifts between intensity and contemplation.
Vintundra is a death metal band from Dudweiler near Saarbrücken, Germany, formed in 2013. They play aggressive, uncompromising death metal from the Saarland underground.
Vio-lence formed in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1985 and quickly became a central figure in the second wave of Bay Area thrash, known for their frantic tempos and pit-ready aggression. The band's classic lineup included guitarist Phil Demmel and vocalist Sean Killian, and featured a young Robb Flynn before his departure to form Machine Head. Their debut album Eternal Nightmare (1988) remains a cornerstone of the genre, followed by Oppressing the Masses (1990) before the band's initial dissolution in 1993.
Viocosis is a thrash metal band from Louth, Ireland, formed in 2013. They play aggressive thrash metal from the Irish midlands.
Violate is a groove/thrash metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2025. They combine groove metal's heavy rhythms with thrash's speed.
Violated Flesh is a death/thrash metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2018. They combine death metal's brutality with thrash's velocity from one of Britain's historic metal cities.
Miami's Violated Tomb formed in 2023 with a sound rooted in the thrash/death crossover — the sun-bleached aggression of South Florida filtered through old-school death metal ugliness and thrash's relentless momentum. They carry the spirit of early Floridian death metal while bringing a rawness that reads as genuinely current.
Kyiv's Violateress delivers aggressive death metal and deathcore with a modern, polished production approach. Their compositions pair technical guitar work with punishing breakdowns and guttural vocal fury, representing Kyiv's active extreme metal underground.
Violation is a melodic death metal band from Gefrees, Germany, formed in 2012. They deliver melodic death metal featuring harmonized guitar work and dynamic vocal interplay.
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