 UNBOY | 🇯🇵 Japan | — | — | Metalcore | 1 | 0 | 9 | — | 3 Way Split 2005 |
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 Uncurbed | 🇸🇪 Sweden | — | 1990 | — | 6 | 1 | 89 | — | Back From the Ditch 2008 |
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   Undeath | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2018 | Death Metal | 3 | 0 | 30 | — | More Insane 2024 |
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    Undergang | 🇩🇰 Denmark | — | 2008 | Death Metal / Doom Metal | 8 | 8 | 88 | — | Corpus Offal / Undergang 2026 |
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    Underoath | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1997 | Metalcore / Post-Hardcore | 10 | 0 | 101 | — | The Place After This One 2025 |
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    Undying | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1997 | Metalcore | 3 | 1 | 29 | — | At History’s End 2003 |
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    Unearth | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1998 | Metalcore / Post-Hardcore | 8 | 3 | 99 | — | Bask in the Blood of Our Demons 2024 |
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  Unholy Grave | 🇯🇵 Japan | — | 1993 | — | 0 | 2 | 18 | — | Harmonized EP / Fist Of Concrete Justice EP 2005 |
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 Uniform | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2013 | Doom Metal | 1 | 0 | 9 | — | Bright New Disease 2023 |
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  Universally Estranged | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2020 | Death Metal / Black Metal | 2 | 0 | 19 | — | Dimension of Deviant Clusters 2022 |
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    Unleashed | 🇸🇪 Sweden | — | 1989 | Death Metal / Viking Metal | 15 | 2 | 183 | — | Fire Upon Your Lands 2025 |
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 Unpure | 🇸🇪 Sweden | — | 1991 | — | 0 | 1 | 3 | — | The Unpurest Sabbatical Splitombstone 2001 |
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 Unreqvited | 🇨🇦 Canada | — | 2016 | Black Metal / Blackgaze | 0 | 1 | 2 | — | Nocturne 2020 |
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   Until I Wake | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2019 | Metalcore / Heavy Metal | 2 | 1 | 30 | — | Renovate 2024 |
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    Unwound | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1991 | Post-Hardcore / Noise Rock | 7 | 1 | 85 | — | Leaves Turn Inside You 2001 |
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| U Urfaust | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | — | 2003 | Black Metal | 0 | 1 | 2 | — | Urfaust / The Ruins of Beverast 2007 |
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 Usurp Synapse | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1999 | Grindcore / Noise | 0 | 1 | 7 | — | An Aspirin, an X‐Ray 2000 |
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   Vacuous | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | — | 2020 | Death Metal | 2 | 1 | 20 | — | In His Blood 2025 |
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    Vader | 🇵🇱 Poland | — | 1983 | Death Metal / Heavy Metal | 15 | 10 | 214 | — | Humanihility 2025 |
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    Vale of Pnath | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2006 | Death Metal / Technical Death Metal | 4 | 1 | 37 | — | Between the Worlds of Life and Death 2024 |
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| V Vampirska | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2019 | — | 1 | 0 | 7 | — | Hermitess / Saidan / Vampirska / Forbidden Tomb 2021 |
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 Varathron | 🇬🇷 Greece | — | 1988 | Black Metal | 1 | 1 | 10 | — | Duality of the Unholy Existence 2019 |
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    Varials | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2013 | Metalcore | 5 | 1 | 64 | — | WHERE THE LIGHT LEAVES 2026 |
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 Vaseline | 🇩🇪 Germany | — | — | Grindcore | 0 | 1 | 21 | — | Do the Noise 1996 |
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    Veil of Maya | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2004 | Deathcore / Djent | 7 | 0 | 75 | — | [m]other 2023 |
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    Veilburner | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2014 | Black Metal / Death Metal | 8 | 0 | 70 | — | Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy 2025 |
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    Vein.fm | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2013 | Metalcore / Hardcore Punk | 2 | 4 | 39 | — | This World Is Going to Ruin You 2022 |
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    Vektor | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2002 | Technical Thrash Metal / Progressive Metal | 3 | 1 | 31 | — | Transmissions of Chaos 2021 |
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    Venom | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | — | 1979 | Black Metal / Heavy Metal | 17 | 9 | 264 | — | Into Oblivion 2026 |
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    Venom Prison | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | — | 2015 | Death Metal / Heavy Metal | 4 | 2 | 50 | — | Erebos 2022 |
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  Vertebra Atlantis | 🇮🇹 Italy | — | 2019 | Black Metal / Death Metal | 2 | 0 | 14 | — | A Dialogue With the Eeriest Sublime 2023 |
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 Vestiges | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2010 | Atmospheric Black Metal / Atmospheric Sludge Metal | 1 | 0 | 5 | — | Vestiges / Panopticon 2013 |
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 VHS | 🇨🇦 Canada | — | 2015 | — | 0 | 1 | 4 | — | Category III Kaiju 2019 |
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 VI | 🇫🇷 France | — | 2007 | Black Metal | 0 | 1 | 2 | — | Angels Falling Down 2010 |
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    vianova | 🇩🇪 Germany | — | 2014 | Alternative Metal / Djent | 1 | 3 | 26 | 5.0 / 5.0 | Hit It! 2025 |
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    Vildhjarta | 🇸🇪 Sweden | — | 2005 | Progressive Metal / Thall | 3 | 2 | 55 | — | + där skogen sjunger under evighetens granar + 2025 |
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 Vile Apparition | 🇦🇺 Australia | — | 2017 | Death Metal / Technical Death Metal | 0 | 1 | 5 | — | Vile Apparition / Miscreance 2021 |
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 Vinterland | 🇸🇪 Sweden | — | 1992 | Black Metal / Melodic Black Metal | 1 | 1 | 10 | — | Wings of Sorrow / It's Here I Belong 2026 |
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 Vinterriket | 🇩🇪 Germany | — | — | Atmospheric Black Metal / Black Metal | 1 | 0 | 2 | — | Schnee / Das Winterreich 2003 |
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 Violent Gorge | 🇨🇦 Canada | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | 14 | — | Human Grind Gargouillement 2008 |
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 Violent Hate | 🇧🇷 Brazil | — | — | Black Metal / Death Metal | 1 | 0 | 8 | — | Curse of the Evil One / In Between the Truth 1993 |
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 Violent Society | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1990 | — | 0 | 1 | 4 | — | Brutal Truth / Violent Society 1999 |
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    Vital Remains | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 1989 | Death Metal | 6 | 0 | 51 | — | Icons of Evil 2007 |
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   Vitriol | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2013 | Death Metal / Technical Death Metal | 2 | 1 | 23 | — | Suffer & Become 2024 |
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 Vivisection | 🇯🇵 Japan | — | 1993 | Grindcore | 0 | 1 | 26 | — | Grindwork 1994 |
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   Vlad Tepes | 🇫🇷 France | — | 1992 | Black Metal | 2 | 1 | 30 | — | Morte Lune 1996 |
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 Vmthanaachth | 🇺🇸 United States | — | — | Avant-Garde Metal / Death Metal | 0 | 1 | 7 | — | Sallow Moth / Vmthanaachth 2021 |
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 Void Manes | — | — | — | Grunge / Heavy Metal | 1 | 0 | 12 | — | Throbbing Jazz Gristle Funk Hits 2023 |
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    Void of Vision | 🇦🇺 Australia | — | 2013 | — | 3 | 5 | 53 | — | What I’ll Leave Behind 2024 |
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    VoidCeremony | 🇺🇸 United States | — | 2013 | Death Metal / Black Metal | 3 | 3 | 31 | — | Abditum 2025 |
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