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Far Behind the Flame is a death metal/ambient project from Aix-en-Provence, France, formed in 2022. The project blends death metal aggression with ambient textures from the Provençal university city.
Far Beyond Fear is a melodic death metal band from Zawiercie in the Silesian Voivodeship of Poland, formed in 2013. They channel Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the industrial heartland of southern Poland.
Faraday Cage is a melodic death metal band from Alicante, Spain, formed in 2013. Named after the electromagnetic shielding device, the band delivers melodic death metal from the Mediterranean coast.
Faraon is a thrash/death metal band from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, formed in 2024. They bring aggressive thrash and death metal to Transylvania's largest city, contributing to the region's growing extreme metal reputation.
Farewell to Arms is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Landsberg am Lech, Germany, formed in 2015. The band blends the dual-guitar harmonies of melodic death metal with the breakdowns and intensity of modern metalcore.
A fresh death-grind project out of Middletown, Delaware, Farm Machinery emerged in 2025 with the blunt, industrial violence the name implies. Their sound grinds genre boundaries down to raw material — equal parts gore-flecked death metal and punishing grindcore.
Farmakon is a progressive death metal band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2003. With over two decades of activity, the band has been exploring the progressive side of death metal from Finland's third city.
Farsoth is a death metal project from Sweden, formed in 2023. Their Tolkien-derived name — a reference to Morgoth's fortress — signals the epic darkness of their death metal approach.
Fartgod is a death metal band from Ludvika in the Dalarna region of central Sweden, formed in 2021. Their deliberately absurd name contrasts with the serious heaviness of their death metal from the Swedish mining country.
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