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Face of Fatality is a death/thrash metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, active since 2007. The band has spent nearly two decades delivering death and thrash metal from Scotland's largest city.
Face of Fear is a thrash/death metal band from Latina, Italy, active since 2013 and fusing thrash metal's speed with death metal's heaviness. The project contributes to the extreme metal scene south of Rome.
Binghamton's Face of Korruption arrived in 2023 with a focus on the most extreme end of death metal — slam and brutal death metal that prioritizes heaviness above all else.
Milwaukee's Face of Ruin began in 2011 blending progressive death metal with metalcore, gradually tightening their sound into something more direct and deadly without losing the compositional ambition.
Flagstaff, Arizona's Face Pulp waste no time — formed in 2022, they grind through death metal, grindcore, and hardcore punk in the most uncompromising way the high desert allows.
Neenah, Wisconsin's Face the Horde have been combining death and thrash metal since 2019, channeling Midwest grit into tight, aggressive riffing that draws from both genres without splitting the difference.
Face the Misery is a symphonic death metal/deathcore band from Le Mans, France, formed in 2018. The band layers orchestral arrangements over death metal and deathcore foundations.
Face the Wall is a death/thrash metal band from Brusno, Slovakia, formed in 2024. They bring aggressive death/thrash to the central Slovakian countryside, representing the newest generation of Slovak extreme metal.
Facebreaker is a death metal band from Finspang in the Ostergotland region, formed in 2017. They deliver crushing, straightforward Swedish death metal from the small industrial town in central Sweden.
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