WALRUS
WAR OF AGES
WAR SAW
WARBRINGER
In music, there are leaders and there are followers. For every blistering riff there is an imitator, for each impassioned bellow, a sound-alike. It is the challenge of the modern musician to take the finite set of notes upon which all music is built, and make it their own. WARBRINGER did not invent their own vein of metal. They were preceded by greats like Slayer, Exodus, Testament, Anthrax and the almighty Metallica – but over the course of their previous two albums, they have managed to construct songs that are equal parts ferocity and finesse, and in doing so, created a sound that is distinctly their own. With the release of Worlds Torn Asunder, WARBRINGER are poised to take their rightful place at the table alongside the big boys. The music on Worlds Torn Asunder was created in the studio but was borne of years of relentless touring. True road warriors, the members of WARBRINGER have lived their lives in a van together for months on end, playing an average of 300 shows a year since the release of their debut album, War Without End, in 2008. In the process they have built an organic, diehard fanbase, sharing the stage with such metal stalwarts as Exodus, Nile, Suicide Silence, Megadeth, Napalm Death, Suffocation, All Shall Perish, Hatebreed, Testament, Obituary, Overkill, Halford, Kreator and Nevermore.
VICTORIAN HALLS
VIDEO
VIEW TO A KILL
VILE DISPLAY OF HUMANITY
VINNY VEGAS
VINTAGE GRAMMA
VIOLET WINTER
VIOLETNESS
VIRULENCE FACTOR
STANKY POCKETS
VALIENT THORR
Valient Thorr combine high energy speed rock-n-roll, sweat drenched heavy metal, and ass-shaking punk gospel. With Total Universe Man, Valient Thorr lay down a meaty slab of rock AND roll that cannot be tamed. You won’t hear about this kind of action on the news in the United States. The true call has gone out to and has already hit countries like the Ukraine and Uzbekistan and the results have been Earth shattering! These dudes know how to take it to the streets! It’s the fervor that America needs! That’s the sheer power, energy, and attack that Valient Thorr have, Total Freedom, Total World, Total Sky, Total Package, Total Universe, Man!
VALIUS
VAMPIRATES
VAMPIRE MOOOSE
VAN GO
VAN*GLORIA
VAPOR EYES
VARLET FEATURING AMERICAN IDOL’S LILLY SCOTT
VAST AIRE
VEE DEE
VEILSIDE
VEIPA CRAY
VEKTOR
Alone in an arid, desolate terrain – known to Earth Humans as Arizona, part of the United States Federation – a hominid-type creature named David DiSanto felt a growing shift in his consciousness. He was seeking something, something he could not find… a break from the mediocrity of the stagnant heavy metal landscape. This need began to consume him – searching through endless record bins and compilations, desperately seeking the type of sounds that resonated from within his cranial cavity. All was in vain. The repetition began to eat at his mind.
Faced with the mundane, he chose to reject the ways of feeble earth minds, and realized his mission – to cease his search, and create a new voice within heavy metal. VEKTOR was born.
It was Earth Year 2002, of the Common Era.
The early years were bleak. David was alone. But, this did not deter him. He began writing songs and composed demos. He enlisted the help of a drummer, Willy Redshaw, to provide percussion on these early efforts. The first demo, “Nucleus”, was self-released in 2003.
Soon, a new handful of brave earth beings joined him in the pursuit of his mission. They brought their unique skills and individual views. As time wore on, most these brave men were moved to other missions.
During this period of change, two more demos were released: “Demolition” in 2006, and “Hunger for Violence” in 2007.
Through the dust, however, three individuals shone through as true cosmonauts crucial to the next phase of the mission. These men were Erik Nelson, Blake Anderson, and Frank Chin.
Together, they recorded Vektor’s first full-length album, “Black Future”, which was released in 2009 on Heavy Artillery Records.
Ever forging ahead, Vektor’s second full-lenght album, “Outer Isolation”, was released in 2011 on Heavy Artillery Records. Following the collapse of Heavy Artillery (the Lizard Master Race has not been ruled out as suspects in this incident…) Earache Records swiftly added Vektor to their list of mercenaries. “Outer Isolation” was then re-released in 2013.
Once the decimation of the western coast of the United States was complete, VEKTOR decided to shift their HQ to a more densely populated area. After all, what better way to spread the disease? This decision found the band in their new home of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are now in striking distance of metropolitan areas such as New York City and Washington DC, as well as more strategic access to the unconquered fronts of Western Europe…
As of this writing, in the eighth month of Earth Year 2015 CE, VEKTOR is verging on the horizon of another release of meteoric proportions. Their third full-length album, “Terminal Redux”, is slated for release later this year.
VEKTOR has shared the stage with countless acts within, and across, the metal world. They have gone on several full US headlining tours and enjoyed several segmented North American tours with acts such as Municipal Waste, Napalm Death, EYEHATEGOD, and Exhumed. They shared a Main Stage at HellFest in France (an experience shared with veteran acts such as VOIVOD, Testament, KISS, Twisted Sister, Down, and many others), and, on the other side of the world, VEKTOR played two nights of Japanese Assault Fest in Tokyo alongside the legendary Girlschool.
Come – join us, find your rank in the legions of the VEKTONAUTS. The infestation has only just begun…..
VELCRO LEWIS GROUP
Velcro Lewis Group is Earth’s premier acid-rock, space-funk septet. The band twists the aesthetics of Funkadelic, Hawkwind, Temptations, and Black Sabbath into their own living -breathing planet of sound. Using conventional instruments like electric washboard, theremin, and modular synths Velcro Lewis Group mixes in the unique sounds of guitar, bass, and drums to optimize their joyful noise. Lead by Hawk Colman, the brother with the 5 octave range, honky tonk veteran, Lawrence Peters singing bass, and blind growler Andy Slater filling out the harmonies folks can’t deny the commands and demands shouted from the stage. Once it becomes possible to drive a Cadillac through space and time the Velcro Lewis Group Will be hot glued into the tape deck. All aboard The starship Impala!
On their 5th full length album, Amnesia Haze, the group set out to deal with some serious shit. The band entered the studio 2 days after the Presidential election. With disgust and uncertainty driving the session the lyrics had changed and the performances intensified. What was once abstractly political had become unapologetically direct. Racial violence, gun violence, police violence, street harassment, xenophobia, fascism, feminism, every point of rage and discourse the country was feeling. Patriarchal Reptile, a free-noise piece voiced by Theremin player Alison Hunger, was recorded and added to the album last minute as a response to the thin-skinned gynophobiac set to lead our country. Amnesia Haze is a cry for unity and awakening from a band sick of fucking around.
VELCRO LEWIS & His 100 PROOF BAND
VELNIAS
Velnias exists as a an entity in opposition to this misguided and failing modern world. The music is a reflection of man’s falling and the grandeur of that which he has forsaken.
VELVA
VENETIAN SNARES
VENIFICUM
VENNA
VENOM LORDS
VENT THEORY
VERA CRUZ
VERBAL ABUSE
VERBOSE
VERMA
VERONA GROVE
VERONA RED
VERONICA LAKE
VERTUAL VERTIGO
VETERANS
VIC RUGGIERO of THE SLACKERS
Vic Ruggiero, Singer and Songwriter from New York, front man of The Slackers.
VICELORDS
VICIOUS ATTACK
Vicious Attack is an extreme thrash metal band from the southside of Chicago, Illinois. Formed during the summer of 2007, the band immediately made their presence known playing shows through the city and suburbs. In January of 2008 Vicious Attack recorded a two track demo with Bob O’Connor of Creature Feature Studios and distributed it through the area. They continued to hammer out shows throughout Chicago-land, playing major venues like Reggie’s Rock Club and The Beat Kitchen, and continued to cement their reputation as a fierce, energetic live act. In March of 2009 Vicious Attack recorded their Blade of the Reaper EP. Engineered by Bob Pop and Mike at Gunpoint Studios and mastered by Joe Diliberto at Tonal Eclipse Studios, Blade of the Reaper showed the band progressing into a faster, more focused sound. Vicious Attack released their first full length album, Declaration Of War, on April 10th, 2021.
Vicious Attack has had the pleasure to share the stage with D.R.I., Evile, M.O.D., Havok, Hatchet, Jungle Rot, Degradation, Lair of the Minotaur, Merciless Death, Lazarus A.D., Bonded by Blood, Early Man, Exmortus, Diamond Plate and many others.
VICTIMS
VICTORI4
TYPICAL CATS
In an era of havoc and mayhem, political theft and false patriotism, a cadre of highly skilled flow technicians abandon the sinking ship of state to bring the word to the streets. That grievous enemy of the listeners and true heads, “the Establishment” fully aware that the people need beats and rhymes to live, have embarked on a campaign of sonic terrorism. Flooding minds and airwaves with pollutants while grudgingly distributing real hip hop in tainted and dwindling doses.
Determined to derail this morbid status quo, Typical Cats risk the charge of treason to form an underground civil service to freely circulate raw music to the masses. No agenda to push, no president to answer to, no plastic capsules, no commercial breaks.
TYR
Rooted in the epic past, weaving powerful melodic inspiration for the modern Viking spirit