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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.
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.
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