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Fantasma is a black metal band from Würzburg, Germany, formed in 2011. The band weaves spectral black metal atmospheres from the Franconian wine-country city.
Fanthur is a black metal project from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2025. They represent the newest wave of Polish black metal emerging from the capital, contributing to Warsaw's expanding extreme metal underground.
Fantoft is a melodic black metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2017. Named after the historic Fantoft stave church in Norway, the band channels Scandinavian melodic black metal tradition through a Saxon lens.
Seattle's Fantôme Maléfique — French for 'malefic phantom' — arrived in 2023 with a name steeped in occult romanticism and black metal to match. The city's grey skies and damp atmosphere provide an appropriate backdrop for this kind of atmospheric darkness.
Faquin is a black metal band from Lille, France, formed in 2019. The band channels raw black metal from the northern French metropolis near the Belgian border.
Faraon is a one-man black metal project from San Miguel, Buenos Aires, created by a musician known as Temptor Princnegsur. The project released the demo "Testimonios de Esferas Superiores e Inferiores al Sol..." (T.E.S.I.S.) in 2000, a 60-minute eight-track recording blending epic, keyboard-driven black metal with esoteric and Satanic philosophical themes; it was reissued in 2017 by Sons of Hell Prod. after years of obscurity.
Farawisa is a pagan black metal band from Vienna, formed in 2017 and signed to Naturmacht Productions. Their debut album "Frægð" (May 2021) is rooted entirely in Norse mythology and Old Icelandic literature, with all lyrics written in Old Norse and music built on icy tremolo riffs, melancholic lead guitar, atmospheric keyboards, and vocals ranging from black metal screams to epic chanting.
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.
Farewell Orchestra is a depressive black metal/post-rock project from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2021. They blend the anguished introspection of depressive black metal with post-rock's dynamic atmospherics from the city on the Neva.
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