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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Flaktiin is a black/death metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2016. They merge the raw hostility of black metal with death metal's crushing weight from the Portuguese capital's thriving extreme metal underground.
Flamekeeper is an epic heavy/power/black metal project split between Stockholm and Rome, formed in 2019. Their cross-continental approach merges Scandinavian and Italian metal traditions into epic, genre-spanning compositions.
Flamen is a melodic black metal project from Potenza in Italy's Basilicata region, formed in 2023. They bring melodic black metal sensibility to one of southern Italy's least represented regions in the metal underground, adding to the growing diversity of the country's extreme music landscape.
Flamen Martialis is a melodic black metal band from Nuremberg, Germany, formed in 2021. Named after the Roman priest of Mars, the band fuses classical and martial themes with melodic black metal.
Flammae is a black metal project from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2023. Their Latin name — meaning 'flames' — signals the incendiary spirit of their black metal from the Polish capital.
Flammenkvlt was a post-black metal band from Salzburg, Austria, active from 2020 to 2021. In their brief existence they contributed the track "A Song Against the Void" to the Austrian Metal News Vol. 1 compilation (Running Wild Productions, December 2021), which served as a document of the contemporary Austrian extreme metal underground.
Flammentod is a black metal band from Schwalmstadt, Germany, formed in 2022. The project's name — German for "death by fire" — conveys the scorching intensity of their black metal.
Flauros is a black metal band from Joensuu, Finland, active since 2001. Named after the Great Duke of Hell, the band has spent over two decades forging black metal from eastern Finland.
Flaygoth is a black/Viking metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2010. They merge the atmospheric sweep of Viking metal with black metal's hostility, channeling Norse themes from the Russian capital.
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