Valsblut is a black metal project from Lyon, France, formed in 2023. They deliver cold, aggressive black metal from the French underground.

Valtharim is a raw black metal project from Germany, formed in 2025. The project pursues the most stripped-down and aggressive end of the black metal spectrum.

Idrija's Valuk channels Slovenian mountain darkness into atmospheric black metal, drawing from the forested landscape surrounding this small, historic mining town. Their compositions evoke the Idrija region's industrial heritage and alpine isolation through cold, tremolo-driven intensity.

Brzozow's Vampire Wail channels nocturnal, vampiric themes through cold, atmospheric black metal with a distinctly eastern Polish underground sensibility. Their compositions weave between mid-paced hypnotic passages and bursts of tremolo-driven aggression.

Vampiro is a black metal project from Leicester, England, formed in 2018. The project channels dark, vampiric themes through raw black metal.

Seixal's Vampyro channels the dark, nocturnal side of Portuguese black metal, wrapping vampiric themes in raw tremolo riffs and blast-driven fury. Their sound draws from the first-wave black metal tradition of Bathory and Venom.

Vampíra is a black metal project from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in 2024. They channel raw black metal from the volcanic Nordic island.

Vanad Varjud is an ambient/black metal project from Estonia, formed in 2014. The project blends atmospheric ambient soundscapes with black metal intensity.

Vanaheimr is a progressive black/death metal band from Bath, England, formed in 2018. They blend progressive compositions with the extreme aggression of black and death metal.