Vae Solis is a thrash/melodic death metal band from Yorkshire, England, formed in 2019. They combine thrash metal's speed with melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility.

Vaelk is a black metal project from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, formed in 2017. The project draws on the atmospheric and raw traditions of German black metal.

Vaellus is a doom/gothic metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2025. They blend doom metal's crushing weight with gothic metal's dark atmospheric beauty.

Vaenir is a one-man atmospheric black metal, doom, and instrumental project from Bulgaria, formed in 2020. Tampering with melancholic sounds and drawing inspiration from nature, history, and the realms of imagination, releases like "From The Ashes Of The Undone" and the remastered "Simulcarum" showcase sprawling atmospheric compositions.

Vaevictis is a progressive metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2020. They craft progressive metal compositions from one of England's historic metal cities.

Vaginal Cassoulet is a brutal death metal/grindcore band from Laval, France, active since 2011. They combine brutal death metal's heaviness with grindcore's chaos and a darkly humorous French identity.

Vaginal Purulence is a death metal band from Angers, France, formed in 2016. They deliver graphic, visceral death metal from the western French underground.

Uzhhorod's Vaginnal Headshot merges raw black metal's lo-fi aggression with metalcore's breakdown-heavy approach from Ukraine's westernmost city on the Slovak border. Their confrontational hybrid channels the Transcarpathian underground's uncompromising spirit.

Vagrant is a heavy/thrash/death metal band from Sliven, Bulgaria, active since 2004. They blend the intensity of death metal with thrash's velocity and traditional heavy metal's structural foundations in the Bulgarian underground scene.