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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
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Fixation on Suffering is a brutal death metal band from the Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2017. The band delivers relentless, punishing brutal death metal from the northern Spanish autonomous community.
Fjords is a progressive/melodic death metal band from Nottingham, England, formed in 2017. The band merges progressive structures with melodic death metal from the East Midlands city.
Flag is a thrash/death metal band from Nitra in western Slovakia, active since 1999. Over a quarter century of thrash and death metal from one of Slovakia's oldest cities make them among the most enduring extreme metal acts in the country.
Flaktiin is a black/death metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2016. They merge the raw hostility of black metal with death metal's crushing weight from the Portuguese capital's thriving extreme metal underground.
Flame Emperor is a death/thrash metal band from Samara on the Volga bend, formed in 2024. They bring aggressive death/thrash to one of Russia's major Volga River cities.
Flame Fracture is a melodic death metal band from the Plymouth/Exeter area of England, formed in 2012. The band crafts melodic death metal from the Devon coast.
Flame or Redemption is a melodic death metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2022. The band delivers emotionally charged melodic death metal from the Bavarian capital.
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FlameDrop is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Mosonmagyarovar, Hungary, near the Austrian border, active since 2023. The project combines melodic death metal's hooks with thrash metal's aggression.
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