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Ferosity is a death metal band from Warsaw, Poland, active since 2006. Nearly two decades of activity from the Polish capital have established them as a persistent force in the country's deep and competitive death metal underground.
Ferosz is a thrash/death metal band from Bilbao, Spain, formed in 2015. The band delivers aggressive thrash and death metal from the Basque Country's industrial heart.
Ferox is a death metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 1997. As one of the longer-running death metal acts in the German capital, the band has spent over a quarter century delivering uncompromising extreme metal.
Ferum is a death/doom metal band from Bologna, Italy, formed in 2021. They deal in the crushing, glacial heaviness that defines the death/doom intersection, drawing on Bologna's fertile underground metal scene.
Ferus is a doom/death metal band from Bremen, Germany, formed in 2017. The band creates crushing, slow-tempo music at the intersection of doom and death metal.
Fervent is a death/doom metal band from Finland, formed in 2011. The band creates heavy, slow-burning death/doom from the Finnish underground.
Fessus is an old-school death metal band from Vienna, formed in 2023, drawing equally from US and Finnish death metal — citing Autopsy, Obituary, Demilich, and Funebre as primary influences. Their debut demo "Pilgrims of Morbidity" (recorded in Favoriten, Vienna in summer 2023) and the live album "Thresholds of Morbidity" (2024) established them quickly as one of the most compelling new death metal acts in the Austrian underground.
Fester is a death metal/grindcore band from Aberdeen, Scotland, formed in 2016. The band delivers extreme grind from the Granite City on the North Sea.
Festercult is a death metal band from Temerin in the Vojvodina province of Serbia, formed in 2024. They deliver old-school death metal from the multiethnic northern Serbian plains.
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