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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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With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Vomiting Corpses is a death metal band from Emden, Germany, formed in 2025. They deliver old-school death metal with horror-themed brutality.
Vomitous is a death metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, active since 2010. They play aggressive death metal from the Northern Irish underground.
Tomsk's Vomitous Mass piles on brutal death metal with unrelenting intensity, delivering guttural vocals and grinding riffs from the heart of Siberia. Their punishing approach channels the most extreme end of the death metal spectrum without compromise.
Trollhattan's Vomitrot merges death metal's guttural heaviness with doom metal's ponderous weight, creating compositions that alternate between grinding devastation and slow, crushing passages. Their dual-genre approach creates a dynamic range from frenetic to funereal.
Vomiturgy is a death metal/grindcore band from Béziers, France, active since 1996. With nearly three decades of activity, they are one of the more enduring extreme metal acts in the Languedoc underground.
Elk-based Vomitvsanctvs, their name rendered in mock-Latin black metal orthography, delivers a punishing death-thrash assault rooted in the Polish underground. Their compositions channel raw aggression and blasphemous intensity through tight, riff-driven songwriting.
Von Pey is a melodic death metal band from Cologne, Germany, active since 2004. They play melodic death metal with dual-guitar harmonies and dynamic vocal contrasts.
Vorkreist is a black/death metal band from Paris, France, active since 2002. With over two decades of unrelenting extreme metal, they are an established force in the Parisian underground.
Bratislava's Vortex Unit merges black and death metal into a savage hybrid that draws from both genres' most extreme tendencies. Their dual-genre attack creates compositions that alternate between atmospheric tremolo passages and crushing, guttural devastation.
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