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Faceless Moon is a black/death metal band from England, formed in 2023. The band merges black metal's atmosphere with death metal's heaviness.
Faceless Nihilist is an atmospheric black metal project from Serbia, formed in 2020. They channel nihilistic philosophy through atmospheric black metal textures, creating introspective extreme music from the Balkan underground.
Faceless Void is a death/black metal band from Portugal, active since 2010. Named after the Dota 2 character, they deliver uncompromising extreme metal that merges death and black metal traditions within the Portuguese underground.
Faceofanother is a crust punk and black metal act from Athens, Greece, active since 2012 and fusing the raw energy of crust punk with black metal's darkness. The project bridges the punk and metal undergrounds of the Greek capital.
Twin Falls, Idaho's Faces of Annihilation have been combining blackened death metal and deathcore since 2018, a rural Pacific Northwest act pushing extreme metal in an unlikely location.
Fackelträger is a black metal project from Germany, active since 2010. The project's name — German for "torchbearer" — evokes the ritualistic, fire-lit imagery central to their black metal vision.
Fade Dreams is an atmospheric black metal project from Ukraine, formed in 2024. They channel atmospheric black metal from the Ukrainian underground, creating contemplative extreme music amid the realities of wartime.
Stanley, North Dakota's Fade into Obscurity formed in 2024, bringing raw black metal from one of the most remote corners of the American underground — isolation rendered in frost and tremolo.
Faded Colors is a raw black metal project from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2023. They strip black metal to its rawest essentials, delivering lo-fi hostility from the Russian capital.
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