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Flesh Ritual is a death metal band from Montpellier, France, formed in 2023. The band delivers ritualistic death metal from the southern French Mediterranean city.
Flesh Torment is a death metal/grindcore band from Elverum in the Innlandet region of Norway, formed in 2010. They deliver punishing extremity from the same eastern Norwegian city that produced Burzum, though their approach leans toward death metal and grindcore rather than black metal.
Fleshart is a brutal death metal and grindcore act from Piraeus, Greece, active since 2020 and delivering punishing extremity from the port city near Athens. The project fuses brutal death metal's low-end assault with grindcore's velocity.
Fleshbomb is a brutal death metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2025. They represent the newest generation of Moscow's prolific brutal death metal scene, delivering explosive, uncompromising extremity.
Fleshcarved is a death metal band from Lommel, Belgium, featuring Peter on vocals, Ray on guitar, Mathijs on bass, and Benny on drums. They released their debut demo in May 2019 as a three-track introduction, with profits earmarked to fund a future full-length album.
Fleshcommander is a death metal/hardcore band from Dortmund, Germany, formed in 2025. As a brand-new act, the band merges death metal brutality with hardcore directness from the Ruhr area.
Fleshcrawler is a black/death metal band from Sala in the Vastmanland region, formed in 2019. They merge black and death metal traditions from the historic Swedish silver-mining town.
Fleshcult is a blackened death metal band from Ratzeburg, Germany, formed in 2013. The band fuses the darkness of black metal with the heaviness of death metal from the Schleswig-Holstein lakeside town.
Fleshcut is a death metal band from Malmo, Sweden, formed in 2020. They deliver sharp, incisive death metal from the Skane region at Sweden's southern tip.
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