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Sacramento's Fangehull entered the black metal underground in 2023 with a project name that evokes something archaic and Northern despite the California locale. Their sound borrows from the raw, primitive end of the genre's tradition.
Fangorn is a folk/black metal band from Hallwang, Salzburg, formed in 1998, now active under the name Rivendell. Drawing directly on J.R.R. Tolkien's mythology, their original 1998 demo "Poems of Mountains and Forests" — remastered and reissued as "Fangorn: Poems of Mountains and Forests" in 2024 — blends raw black metal with epic folk arrangements and fantasy-themed lyrics.
Fangsylvania is a symphonic black/death metal project from Sweden, formed in 2019. Their vampiric name signals horror-themed extreme metal that merges symphonic grandeur with the aggression of both black and death metal traditions.
Fantasist is an atmospheric black metal project from Sundbyberg in the Stockholm metropolitan area, active since 2001. Over two decades of atmospheric black metal represent one of the longest-running projects in the Swedish underground.
Fantasma is a black metal band from Würzburg, Germany, formed in 2011. The band weaves spectral black metal atmospheres from the Franconian wine-country city.
Fanthur is a black metal project from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2025. They represent the newest wave of Polish black metal emerging from the capital, contributing to Warsaw's expanding extreme metal underground.
Fantoft is a melodic black metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2017. Named after the historic Fantoft stave church in Norway, the band channels Scandinavian melodic black metal tradition through a Saxon lens.
Seattle's Fantôme Maléfique — French for 'malefic phantom' — arrived in 2023 with a name steeped in occult romanticism and black metal to match. The city's grey skies and damp atmosphere provide an appropriate backdrop for this kind of atmospheric darkness.
Faquin is a black metal band from Lille, France, formed in 2019. The band channels raw black metal from the northern French metropolis near the Belgian border.
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