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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Fabulae Dramatis is a progressive and avant-garde metal act from Antwerp, Belgium, describing their sound as heavy world music that transcends traditional genre boundaries. Their catalog includes releases such as "Violenta," "Lead Astray / Indigo," and "Solar Time's Fables," each built on passages full of heaviness, intensity, and dramatism.
Fair Alibi is an avant-garde metal project from Balatonfured on the shores of Lake Balaton, Hungary, active since 2023. The project pushes metal into experimental territory from one of Hungary's most scenic locations.
Falce is a death/thrash outfit from Rome dealing in tightly wound aggression across releases including their self-titled record and Codex Chaos. Their approach strips the genre to its essentials — punishing riffs and relentless tempo shifts rooted in the Italian extreme metal underground.
False Entailment is an avant-garde death metal band from Slatina, Croatia, active since 2021 and pushing death metal into experimental territory. The project represents the more adventurous side of Croatian extreme metal.
Fardeaux is an avant-garde black metal band from Lille, France, formed in 2021. The band — whose name means "burdens" — pushes black metal into avant-garde territory from northern France.
Five the Hierophant is an avant-garde post-black/doom metal band from London, incorporating dark ambient and jazz elements. The band creates a singular fusion of extreme metal, dark ambient, and jazz from the British capital.
Forgotten Silence is an avant-garde and progressive death metal band from Rosice, Czech Republic, active since 1993 and boasting true cult status among fans and critics alike. Their vast discography — spanning releases like "Senyaan," "Kro Ni Ka," "La Grande Bouffe," and "Thots" — overlaps into metal, rock, ambient, and jazz, making them one of the most genre-defying acts in Czech metal history.
Formloff is a two-piece avant-garde black metal project from Nes, Norway, featuring Marius Blekspetl Sjoli and Bernt Karsten Sannerud. Their 2012 album Spyhorelandet delivers complex, experimental black metal that pushes the genre's compositional boundaries with progressive and avant-garde elements.
FRIG is an avant-garde/drone/industrial metal project from Bucharest, Romania, formed in 2017. Their Romanian name — meaning 'cold' — matches the frigid, experimental character of their drone and industrial metal from the Romanian capital.
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