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F.I.K'Ass is a death/thrash metal band from the Nantes/Saint-Nazaire area of France, formed in 2021. The band fuses death and thrash metal from the Loire estuary region.
F.O.B. is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Tábor, Czech Republic, formed in 2015, drawing inspiration from Immolation, Darkest Hour, and Morbid Angel. Their extensive catalog includes their long-awaited seventh album "Outside the Palace Walls" (2022), featuring aggressive and melodic vocals over crushing riffs.
Fabiant is a melodic gothic/death/thrash/folk metal project from Gomel, Belarus, formed in 2010. The project fuses an unusually wide range of metal subgenres — gothic, death, thrash, and folk — into a singular, genre-blending approach.
Berkeley's Fabricant have spent over a decade building a reputation in the Bay Area death metal underground, delivering technically dense, punishing music that owes nothing to accessibility.
Face of Despair is a progressive doom/death metal project from Switzerland, formed in 2025. The project merges the introspective complexity of progressive metal with the crushing weight of doom and death metal.
Face of Fatality is a death/thrash metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, active since 2007. The band has spent nearly two decades delivering death and thrash metal from Scotland's largest city.
Face of Fear is a thrash/death metal band from Latina, Italy, active since 2013 and fusing thrash metal's speed with death metal's heaviness. The project contributes to the extreme metal scene south of Rome.
Binghamton's Face of Korruption arrived in 2023 with a focus on the most extreme end of death metal — slam and brutal death metal that prioritizes heaviness above all else.
Milwaukee's Face of Ruin began in 2011 blending progressive death metal with metalcore, gradually tightening their sound into something more direct and deadly without losing the compositional ambition.
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