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Columbia, Missouri heavy metal band formed in 2017, rooted in the traditional genre's melodic structures, twin-guitar riffing, and commitment to craft over extremity. Vohnkar represents the American heartland's quieter but persistent metal community, delivering riff-forward music that values classic heavy metal's clarity and energy on its own terms.
Voice of Baceprot is an all-female Indonesian metal trio from rural West Java who perform in hijab while channeling the fury of Rage Against the Machine, Slipknot, and Lamb of God. Formed as schoolgirls in 2014, VOB made history as the first Indonesian band to play Glastonbury and have performed at Wacken Open Air, earning global media attention from the BBC, NPR, and The New York Times for their boundary-shattering cultural significance.
Columbus, Ohio grindcore and death metal band formed in 2016, fusing the genre's velocity and crust punk's anarchic rawness with death metal's low-end devastation. Rooted in Columbus's scrappy DIY underground, Voice of Crows produce music with both political sharpness and physical force, treating brevity and brutality as equally essential tools.
Stavropol's Voice of Hastur, named after the Lovecraftian Great Old One, channels cosmic horror into atmospheric black metal from Russia's North Caucasus region. Their compositions evoke the unknowable dread of their namesake through dissonant, sprawling arrangements.
Voice of Hate is a death metal/grindcore band from Torrent, Spain, active since 2003. With over two decades of activity, they are one of the more established extreme metal acts in the Valencian underground.
Voice of Reason is a brutal death metal/grindcore band from Paris, France, formed in 2017. They deliver punishing extreme metal combining brutal death metal's heaviness with grindcore's chaotic velocity.
Kharkiv's Voice of Solitude crafts atmospheric black metal infused with profound melancholy and introspective themes. Their immersive compositions layer reverb-drenched tremolo melodies over atmospheric foundations, creating vast soundscapes of emotional isolation from Ukraine's second city.
Voiceless Dissonance is a death/thrash/groove metal band from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, whose debut EP Vox: I appeared in 2026, introducing tracks such as "It's on That Damn Plate" and "They Form a Sea of People." The band emerged as a newly formed act with a sound drawing on the aggressive Brazilian extreme metal tradition of the state.
Varnamo's Voiceless Location delivers punishing death metal and deathcore with a modern, production-heavy approach. Their breakdown-laden compositions channel the aggression of the deathcore tradition through a Swedish extreme metal lens.
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