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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Brave New World (2025)
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Fenfire is a melodic black metal band from Darmstadt, Germany, formed in 2011. The band blends melodic guitar work with the cold aggression of black metal from the southern Hessian city.
Fenice Nera is an epic black metal project from Parma, Italy, active since 1997 as a vehicle for conceptual art exploring history and philosophy. Eschewing conventional extreme metal imagery, the project has evolved through cosmic black metal, medieval atmospheres, and ambitious works like Maiestas Domini — Magnum Opus Extended over nearly three decades of output.
Fennostana is a black metal project from Orimattila, Finland, formed in 2024. The project creates cold black metal from the southern Finnish town.
Fenriz is a raw black metal project from Chorzow in the Silesian Voivodeship, formed in 2023. Despite sharing a name with Darkthrone's legendary drummer, this Polish project carves its own path through raw, uncompromising black metal from Upper Silesia.
Fera is a black metal band from Arras, France, active since 2009. The band has spent over 15 years creating black metal from the Pas-de-Calais town.
Ferah is a black/thrash metal band from Schwaigern, Germany, formed in 2017. The band fuses the speed and aggression of thrash with the dark atmospheres of black metal.
Feral Forms is a black/death metal band from Trieste, Italy, operating at the intersection of black and death metal ferocity. Their releases Premalignant and Through Demonic Spell deliver punishing extreme metal drawn from the darkest corners of both genres.
Feral Howl is a black metal project from Norway, formed in 2022. Their name evokes the primal, untamed spirit of their black metal, channeling wild aggression from the genre's ancestral homeland.
Feral Mittens is a black metal band from Frederikssund, Denmark, formed in 2021. The band delivers raw black metal from the northern Zealand fjord town.
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