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This Godless Endeavor (2005)
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Fraquien is a death metal band from Bursa, Turkey, formed in 2026. They represent the newest generation of Turkish extreme metal, emerging from the former Ottoman capital at the foot of Mount Uludag.
Fratzengeballer is a death metal/grindcore band from Frankfurt, Germany, formed in 2019. The band's name — roughly meaning "face-blasting" — captures the intensity of their extreme output.
Fraught is a death/black metal band from Dublin, Ireland, active since 2019 and delivering dual-pronged extremity from the Irish capital. The project merges death and black metal traditions.
Frayed Illusion is a melodic death metal band from Athens, Greece, emerging in 2026 as part of the newest generation of Hellenic melodeath. The project channels Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal through a Greek perspective.
Freak Out Project is a death/thrash metal band from Southampton, England, emerging in 2024 with aggressive extreme metal from the south coast. The project fuses death and thrash metal traditions.
Freakhate is a death metal/grindcore turned doom/death metal band from Gandia, Spain, active since 1993. With over three decades of activity, the band evolved from grinding extremity to slower, heavier doom/death territory from the Valencian coast.
Freakish is a death metal/grindcore project from Sweden, formed in 2023. They channel the violent immediacy of grindcore alongside death metal brutality from the Scandinavian extreme underground.
Freaksight is a melodic death/groove/thrash metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2022. The band blends three strands of aggressive metal from France's gastronomic capital.
Freefall is a death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 2005 and delivering punishing death metal from Greece's northern capital. The project represents one of the established acts in Thessaloniki's extreme metal scene.
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