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Fume is a sludge/death metal band from Coventry, England, active since 2018 and merging sludge metal's oppressive weight with death metal's ferocity. The project channels the industrial heritage of Coventry into extreme metal.
Fumist is a grindcore/powerviolence and death metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2024. The band delivers short, explosive bursts of extreme music.
Funebrö is a black/death metal band from Mongaguá, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2017. They released a cluster of recordings in their debut year — including Ritual of Doom, Curse of the Dead, Necromancy, Death by Metal, and Satanists — and returned in 2023 with the release Mentecaptos.
Funeral Damage is a death metal/hardcore band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2021. The band merges death metal's heaviness with hardcore's raw energy from the German capital.
Funeral Feast is a blackened death metal band from Rauma, Finland, formed in 2016. The band merges the darkness of black metal with death metal's heaviness from the western Finnish coastal town.
Funeral Holocaust is a black/death metal band from Hayange, France, formed in 2025. The band delivers extreme blackened death metal from the Moselle valley industrial town.
Funeral Home is a melodic death metal band from Kuopio, Finland, formed in 2012. The band has spent over a decade crafting melodic death metal from the eastern Finnish lakeland city.
Funeral Pile is a blackened death/doom metal band from Bruckmühl, Germany, formed in 2021. The band merges the darkness of blackened death metal with the crushing slowness of doom from the Upper Bavarian town.
Funeral Speech is a progressive death metal band from Tver in central Russia, formed in 2019. They bring technical ambition and progressive complexity to death metal from the historic city on the Volga between Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
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