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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Fall to Flames is a deathcore band from Nottingham, England, formed in 2015. The band delivers crushing deathcore from the East Midlands city.
Fallcie is a melodic death/alternative metal/metalcore band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2017. They blend Scandinavian melodic death metal with alternative metal accessibility from Russia's cultural capital on the Baltic.
One of Los Angeles' longer-running death metal acts, Fallen Angel have persisted since 1992 in a city that's churned through thousands of bands — a testament to their commitment to the form. Their longevity in the L.A. underground speaks to a stubborn dedication to death metal's roots.
Fallen Apart is a melodic thrash/death metal and metalcore band from Innsbruck, Tyrol, formed in 2016. The band's four-piece lineup focuses on lyrical themes centered on personal struggle, and they appeared on the Drowned in the Abyss sampler (Vol. II, 2018) with the track "Darkness."
Fallen Apollo is a death metal/deathcore band from Colchester, England, formed in 2013. The band fuses death metal brutality with deathcore's breakdowns from the Essex town.
Laredo, Texas death metal act Fallen Cross have been representing the border city's underground metal scene since 2002. Their music carries the blunt, no-apologies weight expected of Texas death metal, forged far from the state's major urban centers in a city with its own distinct cultural identity.
Chicago's Fallen Empire debuted in 2024, pursuing melodic death metal's marriage of technical aggression and muscular melody within one of America's richest metal cities. Their Bandcamp handle 'newfallenempire' signals a deliberate fresh start, distinguishing them from the genre's established names.
Fallen from Grace is a funeral doom/death metal band from Vladivostok on Russia's Pacific coast, formed in 2015. They deliver crushing funeral doom from the easternmost edge of the European metal tradition, where Russia meets the Pacific Ocean.
Fallen Horizon is a doom/death metal band from Minsk, Belarus, formed in 2022. The band explores the heavy, despondent territory where doom and death metal converge, emerging from the Belarusian underground scene.
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