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Infinite Terror (2024)
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With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Vegralt is an experimental doom metal project from Alzira, Spain, formed in 2022. They push doom metal's boundaries with experimental and unconventional compositional approaches.
Vein is a power/doom metal band from Denmark, formed in 2013. They merge the melodic grandeur of power metal with doom's crushing weight and deliberate pacing.
Velvet Thorns is a death/doom metal band from Münster, Germany, formed in 2013. Their releases explore the intersection of death metal's aggression with doom's crushing slowness and melancholy.
Venus Sleeps is a psychedelic doom metal band from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 2012. They blend psychedelic textures with doom metal's crushing weight for a mind-bending heavy sound.
Vergeltungsschlag is a black/doom metal project from Hesse, Germany, formed in 2018. They fuse the oppressive weight of doom metal with the raw aggression of black metal.
Verhängnis is a doom/death metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2020. They combine crushing doom riffs with death metal's guttural intensity, their name translating to "doom" or "fate" in German.
Lund's Veritate occupies an unusual sonic intersection where doom metal's crushing weight meets heavy metal's melodic heritage and thrash metal's velocity. Their multi-genre approach creates dynamic compositions that shift between slow devastation and rapid-fire aggression.
Silesian act Veriti Ritus inhabits the bleak intersection of black and doom metal, crafting slow-burning compositions that balance tremolo-driven coldness with crushing, dirge-like passages. Their ritualistic approach creates an atmosphere of creeping, oppressive darkness.
Verwahrlosen is an atmospheric doom/black metal project from Germany, formed in 2021. The project merges the crushing weight of doom with black metal's bleakness in immersive atmospheric compositions.
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