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Fran is a depressive black metal project from Foggia in Puglia, active since 2016. They deliver anguished, introspective depressive black metal from Italy's southeastern Adriatic plains, exploring themes of isolation and despair.
Früchtebrot is a raw black metal project from Bielefeld, Germany, formed in 2024. The project's ironic name — meaning "fruit bread" — belies the rawness of their black metal output from the East Westphalian city.
FT-17 is a melodic black/death metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2016. Named after the iconic World War I French tank, the band merges melodic elements with black and death metal aggression.
Fuath is the solo atmospheric black metal project of Andy Marshall, also known for his work in Saor, delivering ice-cold and bristling Gaelic-influenced black metal from Scotland since 2016. Their 2026 album III contains four expansive tracks across 42 minutes and has been praised as Marshall's finest work under this name.
Fuck Off and Die! is a black/thrash metal and crossover band from Kaunas, Lithuania, active since 2012. They deliver uncompromising, punk-infused black/thrash with a confrontational attitude from the heart of the Lithuanian extreme underground.
Fuego Negro are a black metal/punk band from Valparaíso, Chile, formed in 2013 and active on the Diskordia Records label. Their music sits in the raw, confrontational intersection of black metal aesthetics and punk aggression that has characterized a distinct strain of the Chilean underground scene.
Fugit is a solo post-black metal and dark ambient project by Andrea Milan, active since 2009 with an extensive catalog of twenty-six releases. Spanning blackgaze, doomgaze, shoegaze, and psychedelic territory across works like Enlightenment (2023) and Cieli di Porpora (2025), the project creates dreamlike atmospheric metal built on layered textures and introspective ambience.
Fuil na Seanchoille is a raw black metal project from Dublin, Ireland, active since 2008, whose Irish-language name translates to 'blood of the old forest.' The project is one of the longest-running Irish-language black metal acts.
Fukpig is a black metal, crust, and grindcore band from Birmingham, created to play both beats -- the blast and the D-beat -- with a prolific discography including Spewings from a Selfish Nation and Belief Is The Death Of Intelligence. The band has been delivering provocative, confrontational extreme metal from the heart of Birmingham since 2002.
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