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Falcifer is a doom/black metal band from Fribourg, Switzerland, formed in 2016. The band merges the oppressive heaviness of doom with the cold aggression of black metal in the Swiss underground.
Falet is an experimental black metal project from Marche, Italy, launched in 2018 by vocalist/guitarist Federico (Dreeam) and expanded into a five-piece incorporating keyboards, dual guitars, and progressive and ambient textures. Their 2024 full-length Premonition consolidates these influences across six tracks of genre-blurring extreme metal.
Falkenbach is a pioneering viking/black/folk metal project from Düsseldorf, Germany, led by Vratyas Vakyas and active for more than two decades since the mid-1990s. Described as a trailblazer and prime mover of pagan metal, the project blends epic heroism, Germanic mythology, and Norse-tinged folklore with metallic aggression across albums like "...en their medh riki fara...," "Ok nefna tysvar Ty," "Heralding — The Fireblade," and "Asa."
Charleston, West Virginia's Fall Before Your Creator brings blackened deathcore's overwhelming density to Appalachia since 2011, fusing the extremity of black and death metal with the breakdown-driven structure of deathcore into something unrelenting.
Fall of Luvah is a black metal band from Baden-Württemberg, Germany, formed in 2020. The project channels dark, atmospheric black metal from the southwestern German state.
Fallakr is a black metal band from Morlaix, France, formed in 2015. The band creates atmospheric black metal from the Breton town in Finistère.
Fallaness is a one-person atmospheric black metal project from Floridsdorf, Vienna, responsible for all instruments, vocals, mixing, mastering, and artwork. Their debut concept album "Sagenwelten" (December 2024), released via Running Wild Productions, draws on folklore and legends of the old Danube regions around Vienna, with eight tracks featuring German-language titles rooted in nature and local mythology.
Fallath is a black metal project from Finland, formed in 2020. The project creates raw black metal from the Finnish underground.
Falle is a black metal project from Russia, formed in 2020. Their German-derived name — meaning 'trap' or 'snare' — signals the ensnaring, hostile character of their black metal.
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