Italian instrumental trio Vesta craft sprawling post-rock and post-metal soundscapes that oscillate between ethereal, delicate passages and crushing walls of distortion. Formed by guitarist Giacomo Cerri, drummer Sandro Marchi, and bassist Giulio Lorenzini, their debut on Argonauta Records established them as a compelling voice in European atmospheric heavy music.

Vestia is a black metal project from London, formed in 2024. They deliver atmospheric black metal from the British capital.

Vestibulum is a black metal project from Salihorsk, Belarus, formed in 2019. The project channels depressive and atmospheric black metal through a lens of spiritual torment and existential despair.

Saint Petersburg's Veter Daemonaz, whose name translates roughly to "wind of the daemon," channels cold, atmospheric black metal from Russia's imperial capital. Their compositions weave tremolo-driven darkness with atmospheric passages that evoke the city's brooding, fog-shrouded character.

Veteris is a black/speed metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2015. They fuse black metal's ferocity with speed metal's relentless velocity.

Vetha is a technical death/groove metal band from Normandy, France, formed in 2014. They combine technical death metal's precision with groove metal's rhythmic heaviness.

Vetten Äpärät is a folk metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2014. They play Finnish folk metal, their name translating to "bastards of the wilderness."

Vetter is a folk black metal band from Birkeland, Norway, formed in 2015. They weave Norwegian folk traditions into a black metal framework.

Vettt is a doom/sludge metal band from Nuremberg, Germany, founded in 2018 in an 8-square-meter practice space, self-described as being "on a mission to make the world a better place with more distortion." Their debut demo "-ish" was recorded live in a single session, capturing raw, noise-drenched sludge and doom.