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Fake Idyll is a death metal/grindcore band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2013. The band merges the brutality of death metal with the short, violent bursts of grindcore.
Faland is a black/death/doom metal band from Thalheim, Germany, formed in 2020 by former members of Norsegod and Seelenschmerz. Deliberately avoiding strict genre classification, they create a unique blend of metal influenced by different styles, with releases including the "Gespalten" EP and the album "Narbenvolk."
Falanga is a death/thrash metal band from the Pushkino/Mytishchi area north of Moscow, formed in 2020. They deliver aggressive death/thrash from the suburban ring of the Russian capital.
Falchion is a melodic death/folk metal band from Lahti, Finland, formed in 2019. The band blends folk influences with the melodic death metal tradition that Finland is renowned for.
Falecido Morte Lenta is a black/death metal band from Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, formed in 2024. The band explores themes of terror, nihilism, and evil, releasing the album Possessed by Suffering as their debut statement. Operating as an independent underground act, they contribute to the growing extreme metal movement in the Rio de Janeiro state interior.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota's Fall has been playing death and thrash metal since 2011, representing an isolated but tenacious outpost of extremity in a region where metal scenes survive on sheer stubbornness and shared conviction.
Portland, Texas's Fall works in melodic death metal, bringing the genre's interplay of aggression and melody to a small South Texas coastal town — a long way from the Gothenburg origins of the style but no less committed to it.
Charleston, West Virginia's Fall Before Your Creator brings blackened deathcore's overwhelming density to Appalachia since 2011, fusing the extremity of black and death metal with the breakdown-driven structure of deathcore into something unrelenting.
Portland, Oregon's Fall from Grace has been working the groove and thrash metal intersection since 2018, a city with a long history of heavy music providing the backdrop for riff-forward, rhythmically locked playing.
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