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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Nihility (2002)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Inhale The Noise (2026)
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Veil of Mist is a symphonic/gothic/progressive metal band from Reims, France, formed in 2016. They weave symphonic orchestration, gothic atmospherics, and progressive structures into an elaborate metal tapestry.
Veils is a metalcore band from Manchester, England, formed in 2012. They play aggressive, breakdown-heavy metalcore from the English north.
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.
Vein of Hate is a technical death metal band from Gomel, Belarus, active since 2015. Their releases "Internal Enemy" and the 2017 promo "Non-organic Placebo for a Victim" showcase precise, technically demanding death metal with complex arrangements.
Veion is a heavy metal band from Hünfeld, Germany, formed in 2025. They play traditional heavy metal rooted in the classic European metal sound.
Veitsi is a black metal/punk band from Finland, formed in 2022. They fuse black metal's rawness with punk's velocity and stripped-down energy, their name meaning "knife" in Finnish.
Veivi is a heavy metal band from Turku, Finland, active since 2013, evolving from traditional heavy metal to incorporate industrial elements. Their sound bridges old-school Finnish metal with mechanized, industrial textures.
Veladura Grisea is a progressive gothic metal band from Alicante, Spain, formed in 2025. They blend gothic metal's dark romanticism with progressive structures and atmospheric depth.
Velastria is a blackened thrash metal band from Belgium, formed in 2025 with lyrical themes centered on the chaos and horror of warfare. Their debut concept album "War Delusion" explores the horrors of past and future conflicts through relentless blackened thrash.
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