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For Your Sins is a death/thrash/groove metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2013. The band blends death, thrash, and groove metal from Scotland's largest city.
Foramen Magnvm is a death metal band from Puerto Montt, Chile, operating within the death thrash tradition and active since 2013. The band released a split in 2018 alongside other Chilean death metal acts, and their early material, including the track "Silent Shadows," positions them within the underground extreme metal scene of southern Chile.
Foray Between Ocean is a progressive death metal and deathcore band from Athens, Greece, active since 2016 and merging progressive song structures with extreme metal heaviness. The project pushes the boundaries of Athenian extreme metal.
Forbidden City is a doom/death metal band from Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, formed in 2023. They deliver crushing doom/death from a city deeply affected by the ongoing conflict in the Donbas region.
Forbidden Crypt is a black/death metal band from Upper Franconia, Germany, formed in 2019. The band merges the atmospherics of black metal with the heaviness of death metal from the northern Bavarian highlands.
Forbidden Omen is a melodic death metal band from Krakow, Poland, formed in 2020. They bring Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal to southern Poland's cultural capital, blending dual-guitar harmonies with aggressive rhythmic foundations.
Forbidden Realm is a death metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2025. The band delivers death metal from the West Midlands metropolis.
Forbidden Shape is a death/thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2013. They deliver technically charged death/thrash from Moscow's deep and competitive extreme metal underground.
Force Fed Farm Animals (FFFA) is a death metal and grindcore band from Vienna, Austria, who describe themselves as making "stinky music about animals." Their 2025 release "Brutally Molested Lemon Cake" carries on the short, blasting goregrind tradition with an irreverent animal-rights-adjacent absurdism.
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