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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
De Doorn (2021)
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Vast Night is an atmospheric black metal project from London, formed in 2022. They craft immersive, nocturnal atmospheric black metal.
Vastago is a black/death metal band from Valencia, Spain, formed in 2015. They deliver intense extreme metal combining the darkness of black metal with death metal's brutality.
Vastator is a black metal project from Hesse, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver raw, aggressive black metal from the German underground.
Vatikan is a black metal band from Karlsruhe, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver raw, blasphemous black metal channeling the anti-religious fervor suggested by their provocative name.
Vature is a black/post-metal band from Kiel, Germany, formed in 2017. They merge the atmospheric expansiveness of post-metal with black metal's intensity and aggression.
Vaultrust is an atmospheric black metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2017. They craft immersive, layered atmospheric black metal from the Spanish capital.
Vaurien is a raw black metal/ambient project from Paris, France, formed in 2018. Their name meaning "scoundrel" in French, they blend raw black metal with ambient passages.
Vazgar is a black metal project from the UK, formed in 2025. They pursue raw, uncompromising black metal.
Vecordious is a black/death metal band from Trondheim, Norway, active since 2011. They combine the ferocity of black and death metal from the Trøndelag underground.
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