Viking Galaxy is a power metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2013. They deliver epic, anthemic power metal with cosmic and Viking themes.

Viking Skull is a heavy metal band from Corby, England, active since 2003 with a deep catalog including "Born In Hell," "Doom Gloom Heartache & Whiskey," and "Cursed by the Sword." Their prolific output delivers hard-driving, whiskey-fueled heavy metal.

Vikingblood is a black metal project from Germany, formed in 2017. The project draws on Norse and Viking thematic elements filtered through raw black metal aggression.

Swedish act Vildbrand, whose name means "wildfire," delivers raw, scorching black metal with an intensity that lives up to their incendiary namesake. Their compositions burn through blast-driven passages and tremolo fury with unrelenting ferocity.

Vildhjarta are a Swedish progressive metal band from Hudiksvall whose name has become inseparable from the word thall, a shorthand for their warped approach to rhythm, atmosphere, and detuned guitar violence. Formed in 2005, the band emerged from the wider djent and Meshuggah-influenced landscape but developed a more eerie, fractured identity than many of its peers. Albums such as Måsstaden, Thousands of Evils, Måsstaden under vatten, and later material build strange narrative worlds through lurching low-end patterns, dissonant chord shapes, sudden silences, and ghostly melodic fragments. Vildhjarta's songs can feel less like linear compositions than hostile architecture, with riffs bending the listener's sense of where the downbeat should be. The production is massive but also spacious, leaving room for clean atmospheres, whispered dread, and vocals that cut through like another texture of pressure. The band matters because it made extreme rhythmic complexity feel immersive rather than merely technical. Vildhjarta's influence can be heard across modern progressive metal, but imitators often miss the mood: the real power is not only in the tuning or syncopation, but in the uncanny feeling that the music is alive, ancient, and moving at impossible angles.

Vile Discectomy is a slam/brutal death metal band from Hastings, England, formed in 2019. They deliver crushing, guttural slam death metal from the English south coast.

Vile Disgust is a death metal/grindcore band from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2009. They combine death metal's brutality with grindcore's chaotic intensity.

Vile Extortion is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2019. They combine melodic death metal's harmonies with thrash metal's velocity.

Trencin's Vile Justice brings crossover thrash energy to Slovakia, fusing hardcore punk's confrontational attitude with thrash metal's precise, rapid-fire riffing. Their high-octane approach channels the pit-ready energy of classic crossover acts.