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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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Väestönsuoja is a grindcore/death metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 2020. Their name meaning "bomb shelter" in Finnish, they deliver explosive grindcore and death metal.
Vér is a death metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2021. Their name meaning "blood" in Hungarian, they deliver aggressive death metal.
Vögel is a progressive death metal project from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in 2019. They combine progressive complexity with death metal's heaviness.
Vûlom is a melodic death/doom metal band from Kaštela, Croatia, formed in 2019. They blend the sorrow of doom metal with melodic death metal's harmonic richness.
Vāmācāra is a psychedelic doom/death metal band from Kiel, Germany, formed in 2017 by guitarist/vocalist A. with drummer N. Their releases "Mantras for the Manifold" and "Cosmic Fires: The Enlightenment Reversed" blend psychedelic textures with crushing doom and death metal, drawing on alchemical and tantric themes.
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