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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Vasteras' Vicious hammers out death-thrash metal with the raw intensity and precision that defines Sweden's thriving underground scene. Their aggressive, riff-driven approach channels the velocity of thrash through death metal's heavier sonic palette.
Vicious Knights is a thrash/death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2016. They combine thrash metal's speed with death metal's heaviness from Greece's second city.
Victim of Reality is a doom/death metal band from Grodno, Belarus, formed in 2018. They combine the crushing weight of doom metal with death metal's guttural intensity, drawing on classic European doom/death traditions.
Gorzow Wielkopolski's Victimized blends melodic death metal's hooky twin-guitar harmonies with straight-ahead death metal's guttural punch. Their Gothenburg-influenced approach delivers memorable melodies without sacrificing heaviness or aggression.
Victims of Silence is a melodic death metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2018. They play melodic death metal with harmonic guitar work and dynamic vocal interplay.
Swedish act Vider merges black metal, death metal, and grindcore into a volatile, genre-defying cocktail of extremity. Their unpredictable compositions shift between blast-driven fury and grinding aggression with reckless abandon.
Vrable's Vighun delivers melodic death metal with hooky twin-guitar harmonies and guttural intensity from western Slovakia. Their Gothenburg-influenced approach balances accessible melodies with the heaviness and aggression of the death metal tradition.
Vile Discectomy is a slam/brutal death metal band from Hastings, England, formed in 2019. They deliver crushing, guttural slam death metal from the English south coast.
Vile Disgust is a death metal/grindcore band from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2009. They combine death metal's brutality with grindcore's chaotic intensity.
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