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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Frozenland is a black metal project from Poland, formed in 2013. Their name evokes the frozen, desolate landscapes that have always been central to black metal's visual and sonic identity.
Frozenwoods is a black metal project from Novosibirsk, Siberia, formed in 2012. Their name evokes the vast frozen taiga forests surrounding the city, channeling that desolate landscape into atmospheric black metal.
Frvst is a black/sludge metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2019. The band fuses the cold aggression of black metal with the thick, tarry weight of sludge metal.
Fryderyk is a black metal project from Sondrio in the Lombardy Alps. They operate from one of Italy's most mountainous and isolated provinces, channeling the stark alpine landscape into atmospheric black metal.
Frykt is a black metal project from Hungary, whose name translates to 'fear' in Norwegian, active since 2019. The project channels Scandinavian-inspired black metal through a Hungarian lens.
Fran is a depressive black metal project from Foggia in Puglia, active since 2016. They deliver anguished, introspective depressive black metal from Italy's southeastern Adriatic plains, exploring themes of isolation and despair.
Früchtebrot is a raw black metal project from Bielefeld, Germany, formed in 2024. The project's ironic name — meaning "fruit bread" — belies the rawness of their black metal output from the East Westphalian city.
FT-17 is a melodic black/death metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2016. Named after the iconic World War I French tank, the band merges melodic elements with black and death metal aggression.
Fuath is the solo atmospheric black metal project of Andy Marshall, also known for his work in Saor, delivering ice-cold and bristling Gaelic-influenced black metal from Scotland since 2016. Their 2026 album III contains four expansive tracks across 42 minutes and has been praised as Marshall's finest work under this name.
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