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Copenhagen's Volbeat forged a distinctive sound by welding rockabilly swagger and Elvis-inspired crooning to chunky Metallica-influenced riffs, creating a hybrid that has made them one of Europe's biggest rock bands. Michael Poulsen's unmistakable baritone and the band's instantly recognizable groove on albums like 'Beyond Hell/Above Heaven' and 'Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies' have filled arenas across the globe.
Louisville's Volcandra have been building a melodic black/death metal sound since 2020 that takes the genre's twin pillars seriously — the melody isn't softening the death metal, and the death metal isn't there just to add credibility to the melody. Their sound pulls from Scandinavian melodic black metal's ear for harmony while keeping the death metal attack ferocious enough to matter. One of the more capable melodic extreme metal acts to come out of the American South.
Volcanic Circles is a progressive metal band from Lisieux, France, formed in 2013. They craft intricate progressive metal compositions with technical depth.
Saint Paul's Volcano Diving Inc have been at the groove/thrash/metalcore intersection since 2016, which is a noisier crossroads than it sounds — the groove metal chug, thrash precision, and metalcore aggression pull in different directions and the band's trick is keeping it from flying apart. The band name signals they're not taking themselves too seriously, but the music is built on legitimate riff craft underneath the attitude. Eight years in, they've made the combination feel like their own thing.
Volcanova is a stoner metal/rock band from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in 2020. Their albums "Radical Waves" and "Cosmic Bullshit" — the latter recorded at Studio Helviti and mastered by Esben Willems — deliver heavy, groove-laden stoner rock from the Icelandic underground.
Volharding — Dutch for "perseverance" — have been grinding out death metal from Toms River, New Jersey since 2014, the name suggesting a certain dogged, unfashionable commitment to the form. Their sound sits in the old-school death metal tradition: heavy, direct, more interested in impact than atmosphere, and suspicious of anything that might be called progressive. New Jersey's got underrated metal roots and Volharding fit comfortably in that rough-edged lineage.
Volition is a melodic death metal band from Münster, Germany, formed in 2024. They deliver melodic death metal with sweeping harmonies and dynamic arrangements.
Volja — Slavic for "will" or "freedom" — is an anonymous US-based raw black metal project that started in 2020 and operates in the deliberately primitive, confrontational space that defines the genre's rawer subculture. Without a fixed location to anchor them, their music reads as pure ideological expression: trebly, minimal, misanthropic, and unconcerned with accessibility. The name's Slavic connotations add a layer of ideological weight to what might otherwise read as pure sonic asceticism.
Volkmort is a death/doom metal band from Timbó, Santa Catarina, Brazil, channeling extreme and dark sounds rooted in the band members' desire to externalize intense personal experiences. Their 2023 album Fallen in the Bloody Field, released through Black Hole Productions, stands as their most recent full-length, featuring tracks like "Doomology of War" and "Triumphus Mortis."
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