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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.
New York's FaFo is a fresh-formed black/death metal act that arrived in 2025 with an unambiguous name and an equally direct approach: punishing extremity without apology, rooted in the rawest currents of both parent genres.
Fagyhamu is a pagan black metal band from Szeged, Hungary, active since 2005, whose name translates from Hungarian as 'frost ash.' The project blends pagan themes with raw black metal from Hungary's sunniest city.
Fagyhold is a symphonic black metal band from Godolloi near Budapest, active since 2022 and blending orchestral grandeur with black metal extremity. The project represents the symphonic wing of Hungarian black metal.
Fahlbtharz is a post-black metal project from Northumberland, England, formed in 2020. The project channels the bleak, windswept landscapes of the English-Scottish border through post-black metal.
Faidra is an atmospheric black metal project from Sweden, formed in 2020. Their name — a variant of Phaedra from Greek mythology — hints at the tragic, emotionally complex atmosphere of their black metal.
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