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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Newsflash (2023)
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Fading Trail is a death metal/grindcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019. The band delivers grinding death metal from the Finnish capital.
Faecal Putrefaction is a brutal death metal/goregrind band from Arrecife, Lanzarote, Spain, formed in 2024. The band brings extreme goregrind brutality from the Canary Islands.
Faexemia is a melodic death metal/grindcore band from Bethmale, France, formed in 2025. The band merges melodic death metal with grindcore from the remote Pyrenean valley.
New York's FaFo is a fresh-formed black/death metal act that arrived in 2025 with an unambiguous name and an equally direct approach: punishing extremity without apology, rooted in the rawest currents of both parent genres.
Denver's Failure of Flesh emerged in 2026 with the brutal death metal scene's full arsenal at their disposal — guttural, pulverizing, and uncompromising in a city whose metal underground has been quietly expanding for years.
Fairlight is a melodic death metal band from Apt, France, formed in 2011. The band delivers melodic death metal from the Luberon area of Provence.
Raleigh's Faith in Ashes has been one of North Carolina's more technically adventurous extreme metal bands since 2009, weaving black and death metal together through progressive structures that give their violence a sense of arc and intention.
Faith in Hate is a death metal/hardcore band from Oxford, England, formed in 2010. The band blends death metal heaviness with hardcore's direct energy from the university city.
Cincinnati's Faithxtractor has been one of Ohio's most reliable death metal acts since forming in 2008, delivering the genre in a raw, direct form that owes more to the filth of the underground than to any polished modern production.
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