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V.E.I.L.S. is a progressive death metal band from the Treviso province of Italy, active since 2006. They craft technically ambitious progressive death metal from the Veneto region.
V.I.L. is a death metal/grindcore band from Alcoi, Spain, formed in 2019. They combine death metal's heaviness with grindcore's chaotic velocity.
Vacant Coffin is a death metal/grindcore band from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2020. They combine death metal's heaviness with grindcore's chaotic brevity.
Vacarme is a brutal death metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2025. They deliver punishing brutal death metal from the Alsatian underground.
Vacivus is a death metal band from Sunderland, England, active since 2014 with releases including "Annihilism," "Temple Of The Abyss," and "Nuclear Chaos." They deliver uncompromising death metal from the northeast English underground.
Vacuous is a death metal band from London, formed in 2020. They play crushing, filthy death metal from the British capital.
One of Poland's most internationally renowned and longest-running extreme metal acts, Vader has been delivering relentless death-thrash since 1983, led by the tireless Piotr "Peter" Wiwczarek. Albums like "Litany," "De Profundis," and "The Ultimate Incantation" cemented their status as death metal royalty.
Vae Solis is a thrash/melodic death metal band from Yorkshire, England, formed in 2019. They combine thrash metal's speed with melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility.
Vaginal Cassoulet is a brutal death metal/grindcore band from Laval, France, active since 2011. They combine brutal death metal's heaviness with grindcore's chaos and a darkly humorous French identity.
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