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Fogwhisper is a pagan black metal project from Moscow, Russia, active since 2007. Nearly two decades of nature-oriented pagan black metal from the Russian capital have established them as a persistent voice in the country's folk-tinged extreme underground.
Foillis is a black/doom metal band from Bonne, France, formed in 2024. The band merges black metal darkness with doom metal weight from the Haute-Savoie department.
Fokker is a black metal band from Kiel, Germany, formed in 2016. The band channels raw black metal from the Schleswig-Holstein state capital on the Baltic coast.
Folge dem Wind is a pagan black metal band from Montgeron, France, formed in 2014. The band's German name — meaning "follow the wind" — signals their pagan black metal aesthetic from the southern Paris suburbs.
Folkvang is a black metal project from Minsk, Belarus, active since 2009. Their discography includes "Firmament Eclipse," "Atmospheric Black," "Six Stories Without Keys," and "Never Say Never," charting a course through atmospheric and black metal territory.
Follow the Hunt is a black metal band from Oostende, Belgium, formed in 2020. The band channels the cold, aggressive spirit of black metal from the Belgian coastal city.
Folteraar is a black metal project from the Netherlands, active since 2016. Their releases Vertellingen van een Donkere Eeuw and Vexatie embody 'Puur Zwart Kwaad' — pure black evil — delivering Dutch-language black metal stripped to its most hostile and unforgiving essence.
Foltest is a black metal band from Angers, France, formed in 2020. The band creates dark, atmospheric black metal from the Maine-et-Loire capital.
Fomhoraigh is a black metal project that began in Moscow and relocated to Minsk, formed in 2021. Named after the Fomorians of Irish mythology, they bridge Russian and Belarusian black metal traditions through a Celtic mythological lens.
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