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Follow the Hollow is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2023. The band blends Gothenburg-style melodic death metal with metalcore intensity.
Folterkammer — German for "torture chamber" — is an avant-garde black metal project centered on the four-octave operatic soprano voice of Andromeda Anarchia, who pairs her classical coloratura training with feral black metal screams singing entirely in German. Signed to Century Media Records, their albums "Die Lederpredigt" (Gilead Media, 2020) and "Weibermacht" (Century Media, 2024) fuse Baroque composition, black metal riffing, and explicitly provocative lyrical themes.
Fondlecorpse is a death metal band from Rotterdam in the Netherlands, active since 1999. They represent the long-running Dutch death metal underground, contributing over two decades of brutality from one of the country's largest and most culturally diverse cities.
For a Dozen Matters is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2013 and combining melodic death metal's hooks with thrash metal's aggression. The project operates within Athens's thriving extreme metal scene.
For Aeons is a blackened death metal band from Hesse, Germany, formed in 2020. The band creates dense, suffocating blackened death metal from central Germany.
For Ruin is a melodic black/death metal band from Cork, Ireland, one of the longest-running extreme metal acts in the Munster region with origins dating back to 2004. The project blends melodic hooks with black and death metal aggression.
For the Crown is a death metal band from Ylivieska, Finland, formed in 2020. The band delivers death metal from the Ostrobothnian town in central Finland.
For the Pyres is a death metal band from Boras in western Sweden, formed in 2020. They deliver death metal from the Vastergotland textile city between Gothenburg and Jonkoping.
For the Storms is a doom/death/sludge band from Brescia, Italy, formed in 2021. Their releases The Grieving Path and Losing What's Left of Us chart a heavy, emotionally charged path through doom, death, sludge, and post-metal territories, with song titles mapping landscapes of loss and desolation.
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