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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Borderland (2025)
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Unholy Savior (2015)
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Faruln is a black metal project from Vasterbotten in northern Sweden, formed in 2017. They channel the extreme cold and vast wilderness of Swedish Norrland into atmospheric black metal.
Fasa is a black metal project from Vasterbotten in northern Sweden, formed in 2018. Their name — Swedish for 'horror' or 'dread' — encapsulates the terror at the heart of their black metal from the subarctic north.
Fasolath is a black metal project from Derbyshire, England, formed in 2020. The project creates atmospheric black metal from the Peak District area.
Fata Inferna is a black metal band from Ourense, Spain, formed in 2022. The band channels dark black metal from the inland Galician thermal city.
Fata Morgana is a heavy/black metal band from Pilsen, Czech Republic, formed in 2018. The band merges the riffing traditions of heavy metal with the darker atmospheres of black metal.
Fatal Portrait is a black metal band from Santander, Spain, formed in 2025. The band creates raw black metal from the Cantabrian coast.
Fatal Prophecy is a black metal band from Pößneck, Germany, formed in 2022. The band channels raw black metal from the small Thuringian town in eastern Germany.
Fatal Silence of Domination is an atmospheric black metal project from Turkey, formed in 2019. They channel atmospheric black metal from the Turkish underground, creating brooding, desolate soundscapes.
Fatal Siluett is an atmospheric black metal project from Sweden, formed in 2023. Their silhouette-themed name evokes the shadowy, indistinct imagery of their atmospheric approach to Swedish black metal.
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