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Fading Path is a black metal project from Tiraspol in Transnistria, Moldova, formed in 2025. They channel black metal from one of Europe's most geopolitically unusual territories — an unrecognized breakaway state between Moldova and Ukraine.
Fading Roses is a raw black metal/dark ambient/noise project from France, formed in 2022. The project blends the rawness of black metal with dark ambient and noise elements.
Fading Spirit is an atmospheric black metal project from the United Kingdom, formed in 2017. The project creates expansive, ethereal atmospheric black metal.
Faen i Helvete is a black metal project from Norway, formed in 2016. Their name — a common Norwegian profanity translating to 'damn it to hell' — signals the raw, unfiltered aggression of their black metal from the genre's homeland.
Faergol is a depressive black metal project from Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, formed in 2024. The project channels anguish and despair through atmospheric, emotionally charged black metal.
California's Faerhaaven is among the newest names on this list, formed in 2025, and their fantasy-tinged name hints at a black metal sound drawn toward the atmospheric and the otherworldly rather than straight aggression.
Fort Lauderdale's Faethom has been one of South Florida's more ambitious metal acts since 2011, fusing black metal's cold intensity with progressive structures and traditional heavy metal muscle into something distinctly their own.
Fafner is a black metal project from Jonkoping in central Sweden, formed in 2014. Named after the Norse mythological dragon, they deliver black metal from the Smaland region between Sweden's two largest cities.
Fafnires is a folk black metal project from Třinec, Czech Republic, formed in 2013. Their debut album "Revenge of the Inequality" blends black metal with folk, celtic, and pagan influences in atmospheric, melody-driven instrumental compositions evoking medieval and heroic themes.
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