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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Stromstad's Vexmortem fuses death metal's crushing intensity with thrash metal's rhythmic precision, creating a high-energy hybrid from Sweden's Norwegian border region. Their tight, aggressive songwriting balances both genres' strongest elements.
Vice Verse is a progressive thrash metal band from Berkshire, England, formed in 2019. They combine thrash metal's aggression with progressive structures and technical ambition.
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 Brewery is a thrash metal band from Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, formed in 2023. They play aggressive, party-fueled thrash metal in the tradition of crossover-tinged German thrash.
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 Iced is a thrash metal band from Xanthi, Greece, formed in 2016. They play aggressive thrash metal from the northeastern Greek underground.
Victory in Blood is a heavy/thrash metal band from Hardt, Germany, formed in 2013. They combine the melodic sensibilities of heavy metal with thrash's aggressive energy.
Swedish project Vidunderverk, whose name means "wonder" or "marvel" in Swedish, channels an aggressive hybrid of black and thrash metal through furious compositions. Their high-velocity approach combines tremolo-driven darkness with thrash's rhythmic drive.
Vigore is a thrash metal band from Nottuln/Coesfeld, Germany, formed in 2022. They deliver aggressive, riff-driven thrash from the North Rhine-Westphalia underground.
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