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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Virginia St Revival from Everett, Washington brings a hard rock-inflected heavy metal sensibility that recalls the straightforward power of the genre's pre-extreme era. Formed in 2019, they lean into hooks and groove rather than brutality, occupying a space where classic metal's accessibility and sincerity remain the primary values.
Protvino's Virgins Blood of Cachtice, named after the legend of the Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory, delivers a multi-genre assault spanning black metal, death metal, grindcore, and melodic death metal. Their willingness to blend so many extreme subgenres creates a chaotic, unpredictable sound rooted in historical horror.
Virgolamia is a one-man raw and experimental black metal project from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, founded in 2011 by Theo Szczepanski. The project has been prolific across digital releases, culminating in the 2016 full-length "Melangogo", a ten-track independent release that showcases the project's unconventional approach to black metal aesthetics.
Viriditas is a progressive death metal band from Rennes, France, formed in 2018. They deliver technically ambitious progressive death metal from the Breton capital.
Mostyska's Virii crafts raw black metal from a small town in Ukraine's Lviv Oblast near the Polish border. Their compositions channel the isolation of western Ukraine's rural borderlands into atmospheric, lo-fi extremity.
Virium is a black/thrash metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2013. They fuse black metal's ferocity with thrash's riff-driven speed.
Virocracy is a progressive death and thrash metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, founded in 2018 and released through Apostasy Records. Their discography — from 2019's "Initio" through 2022's "Ecophagia" — delivers dark, atmospheric extreme metal that evolves through varying tempos and rhythms without filler.
Simi Valley's Virologist emerged in 2023 with a brutal death metal sound steeped in the Southern California tradition of clinical heaviness — surgical riffing, inhuman drumming, and vocals that function more as a percussive instrument than a narrative voice. Their name signals both their thematic preoccupations and the methodical, almost scientific precision they bring to the craft.
Virology is a death metal band from Cardiff, Wales, formed in 2023. They deliver crushing death metal from the Welsh capital.
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