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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
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Finem Vitae is a death/doom metal band from Alicante, Spain, formed in 2013. The band — whose Latin name means "end of life" — creates crushing doom/death from the Mediterranean coast.
Finrir is a death/pagan/viking metal project from Finland, formed in 2023, also incorporating ambient, folk, and electronica elements. The project blends an unusually wide range of influences from extreme metal to electronic music.
Finster is a crust punk and death metal project operating out of Vienna, with material released under the Bandcamp handle "tomfinster." The project sits in the raw, abrasive zone where crusty D-beat aggression meets death metal heaviness, consistent with the European underground extreme music tradition.
Heavy Black / Viking Metal from Waco.
Fir is a melodic death metal band from the Erzgebirge region of Germany, formed in 2024. The band draws melodic death metal from the ore-rich mountains along the Czech-German border.
Fire Delusion is a melodic death metal band from Grand Est, France, formed in 2021. The band crafts melodic death metal from the northeastern French region.
Fire Wheel is a melodic black/death metal band from Calais, France, formed in 2019. The band merges melodic elements with black and death metal from the English Channel port city.
Fireblade is a blackened death/thrash metal band from Huddersfield, England, formed in 2021. The band fuses black metal darkness with death and thrash metal aggression from the West Yorkshire town.
FireHead is a melodic thrash/death metal band from Lviv in western Ukraine, formed in 2014. They deliver melodic extreme metal from the cultural capital of western Ukraine.
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