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Forever Dead is a death metal band from Rouen, France, active since 2008. The band has spent over 15 years delivering death metal from the Norman capital.
Forever It Shall Be is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Brunswick, Germany, formed in 2007. With nearly two decades of activity, the band blends Gothenburg-style melodic death metal with modern metalcore.
Forever Lost is a death/doom metal band from Jyväskylä, Finland, formed in 2011. The band creates crushing death/doom from the central Finnish lakeland city.
Forever Mortal is a thrash/death metal band from the Beemster/Purmerend area of North Holland, formed in 2023. They bring aggressive thrash and death metal energy from the Dutch polder landscape north of Amsterdam.
Foreverdark is a one-man project from Formia in the Lazio region, created by Paolo Costanzo and active since the early 2000s. The project has evolved through minimal ambient, black metal, death metal, and orchestral phases, with releases spanning metal covers, original orchestral sessions, and atmospheric extreme metal compositions.
Forfeit is a brutal death metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2014. The band delivers punishing brutal death metal from the Baltic capital.
Forget the Past is a thrash/groove/melodic death metal band from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2017 and blending three strands of heavy metal into an aggressive whole. The project delivers diverse extreme metal from the Hungarian capital.
Forgettoforgive is a deathcore band from the Netherlands, formed in 2015. They deliver the punishing breakdowns and guttural vocals that define modern deathcore within the Dutch extreme music underground.
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