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Facehugger is a death metal band from Chemnitz, Germany, formed in 2006. Named after the parasitic creature from the Alien franchise, the band delivers face-melting death metal from Saxony.
Lowell, Massachusetts's Faceless Enemy started in 2022 as brutal deathcore before pivoting toward slam and brutal death metal — an evolution toward pure extremity with no interest in accessibility.
Faceless Envoy is a melodic death metal band from Athens, Greece, blending modern aggression with old-school influences through powerful riffs, melodic leads, and dynamic vocals ranging from growls to clean singing. Their 2026 debut Memoirs Within was mixed and mastered by Bob Katsionis at Sound Symmetry Studio in Athens.
Faceless Moon is a black/death metal band from England, formed in 2023. The band merges black metal's atmosphere with death metal's heaviness.
Wilmington, North Carolina's Faceless Muck have spent over a decade in the death/grind underground since 2010, building a catalog of low-fi brutality that feeds off the coastal South's isolation.
Faceless Void is a death/black metal band from Portugal, active since 2010. Named after the Dota 2 character, they deliver uncompromising extreme metal that merges death and black metal traditions within the Portuguese underground.
Facelift is a death/thrash metal band from Køge, Denmark, formed in 2018. The band delivers aggressive death and thrash metal from the eastern Danish coastal town.
Faceman is a death metal and hardcore band from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2011 and fusing death metal's brutality with hardcore's directness. The project operates within Budapest's diverse heavy music community.
Facepalm Death is a grindcore and death 'n' roll band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2022, featuring Slaveyko on vocals, Yavor and Kamen on guitars, Pavel on bass, and Mads on drums. They describe their sound as "fast ethno-stoner psychedelic prost-grindcore," blending breakneck tempos with stoner and psychedelic elements, as heard on their self-titled release and a three-way split with Rugged and Outrage.
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