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Albuquerque's FaceRipper opened for business in 2022 mixing death metal's malevolence with groove metal's locked rhythms — a New Mexico act that brings heaviness with a bone-snapping groove.
Twin Falls, Idaho's Faces of Annihilation have been combining blackened death metal and deathcore since 2018, a rural Pacific Northwest act pushing extreme metal in an unlikely location.
Faces of Cain is a melodic death metal band from Enschede in the Netherlands, formed in 2012. They bring Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal to the eastern Dutch city near the German border, blending twin-guitar harmonies with aggressive rhythmic foundations.
Facial Abuse is a grindcore/death metal band from Vasteras in central Sweden, formed in 2013. They deliver punishing, short-form extremity from the Malaren Valley industrial city.
Providence's Facial Defecation are one of the elder statesmen on this list, running death/thrash metal in the Rhode Island underground since 1992 — over three decades of uncompromising brutality.
Philadelphia's Facial Fracture launched in 2020 squarely in the slam and brutal death metal tradition, delivering the kind of utterly crushing, low-tuned savagery that the genre demands.
Facing Death is a death metal band from the Moriville/Épinal area of France, active since 2005. The band has spent two decades delivering death metal from the Vosges department of Lorraine.
Facing Entropy is a melodic death metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2018. The band combines Scandinavian-style melodic death metal with the intensity of the Hamburg heavy music scene.
Facing the Madness is a death/thrash metal and hardcore band from Hoogeveen in the Netherlands, formed in 2014. They fuse the technical aggression of death and thrash metal with hardcore intensity from the Drenthe province of the northern Netherlands.
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