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FreeHowling is a death/sludge metal turned deathcore/hardcore band from Hauts-de-France, formed in 2021. The band evolved from sludgy death metal origins into heavier deathcore and hardcore territory.
Crushing Brutal Deathcore from Florida / Texas (early); Florida / Canada (later).
Freshcut is a brutal death metal/goregrind project from Luhansk, Ukraine, active since 2013. They deliver visceral extremity from the conflict-affected city in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
Fretting Obscurity is a funeral doom/death metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2018. They channel the slowest, most oppressive extremes of doom metal from the Ukrainian capital.
Freund Hein was a death/thrash and melodic death metal band from Höllenstein, Lower Austria, formed in 1997 out of the earlier project Craving for Valusia (active from 1994). Named after the German personification of death, the band's sound mixed death, thrash, heavy, and near-gothic metal elements, documented on their records reviewed by Yperano Records as "Coincidentia Oppositorum," before some members moved on to form Hellavista.
Frigority is a death metal/grindcore band from Valais, Switzerland, formed in 2023. The band merges the brutality of death metal with the short, sharp intensity of grindcore from the Alpine canton.
Frogtician is a brutal death metal/goregrind band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2020. The band combines the extremity of brutal death with goregrind's visceral excess.
From Ashes Reborn is a melodic death metal band from Wittlich, Germany, formed in 2018. The band delivers melodic death metal from the Eifel region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
From Below is a melodic death/groove metal band from the Arendal/Grimstad area of southern Norway, formed in 2025. They bring melodic death metal with groove elements from the Agder coast, one of Norway's sunniest but musically underrepresented regions.
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