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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Obnoxious (2022)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Free the Witch EP (2018)
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Funeraria is a black metal project from Liège, Belgium, formed in 2025. As one of the newest entries in the Belgian black metal scene, the project channels raw, unfiltered darkness.
Funerarium is a melodic black metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2018. The band blends melody with black metal aggression from the French capital.
Funerary Bell is a black metal band from Järvenpää, Finland, formed in 2018. The band creates ritualistic, tolling black metal from the southern Finnish town.
Funereal Dusk is a symphonic black metal band from Montebelluna in the Treviso province of Veneto, formed in 2010. They pair orchestral symphonic arrangements with black metal ferocity, bringing theatrical grandeur to the northeastern Italian underground.
Funestentur is a black metal project from Gemona del Friuli in the Udine province, formed in 2020. They channel raw black metal from the Friulian foothills, a region where Italian, Germanic, and Slavic cultural influences converge.
Funestia is a black metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2019. The band creates dark, atmospheric black metal from the French capital.
Fungi is a black metal band from Kouvola, Finland, formed in 2020. The band channels the decay and darkness of their mycological namesake through black metal.
Fungi Death Ritual is a black/doom/thrash metal project from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2016. Their mycological name and genre-blending approach create a uniquely fungal strain of extreme metal, merging three subgenres into something organic and strange.
Funur Luna is an atmospheric black metal project from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2020. The project creates expansive, atmospheric black metal soundscapes from the Finnish capital.
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