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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Skelleftea's Vithatten, whose name means "white hat" in Swedish, channels the frozen forests of Vasterbotten into atmospheric black metal. Their compositions draw from the harsh northern Swedish landscape, evoking snow-covered wilderness through tremolo-driven soundscapes.
Vitja formed in Münster and Cologne, Germany in 2013, drawing from progressive metalcore and the djent-influenced scene while incorporating technical precision and clean vocal passages. The band released three full-length records before introducing a new vocalist and a lighter sonic direction on Thirst (2019). They disbanded in April 2022, leaving behind a small but well-regarded catalogue that drew comparisons to Veil of Maya and Volumes.
Colorado's Vitki draws on the most crushing end of the black-doom continuum, filtering funeral doom's glacial tempos and suffocating atmospheres through a black metal lens since 2023. Named after the Norse runic tradition, the project carries a solitary, ritualistic quality — music designed less for concerts than for the kind of introspective darkness the mountains outside their unnamed Colorado home seem built to inspire.
Vitrectomy is a black metal project from the Grisons canton of Switzerland, formed in 2017. The project operates in the raw black metal tradition, delivering intense and unrelenting compositions from the Swiss alpine underground.
Vitreoous is a black/death metal project from Spain, formed in 2017. They combine the darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing heaviness.
Corona, California's Vitreous Earth has been plying stoner-doom's slow-burning Southern California wavelength since 2018, crafting music that favors haze, weight, and prolonged riff meditation over any urgency whatsoever. Their sound is rooted in the Inland Empire's sun-scorched geography — heavy and unhurried, like pavement expanding in July heat.
Vitreus is a gothic metal band from Castellón de la Plana, Spain, formed in 2015. They play atmospheric gothic metal with dark, romantic textures.
Denver death-doom and sludge metal act formed in 2022, drawing on the Mile High underground's appetite for punishment. Vitrify layers death metal's crushing weight with doom's suffocating tempos and sludge's corrosive texture, their name evoking a transformation into something rigid and opaque — hardened under extreme pressure.
Vitriol is a black/death metal band from Nuremberg, Germany, active since 2001. As one of the longer-running extreme metal acts in the Franconian scene, they blend black and death metal's most aggressive elements.
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