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Foible Instinct is a death metal/grindcore band from Kyiv, Ukraine, active since 2008. Nearly two decades of extreme metal from the Ukrainian capital have established them as a veteran act in the country's underground.
Foken Rotten Noise is an old school grindcore and death metal band from Santiago, Chile, with members drawn from various corners of the Chilean underground metal scene. The band released "Wastedlands" in 2013 through Thanatology Productions in a limited run of 500 CDs, followed by "The Finest Shit" in 2015, both albums channeling raw, anarchic energy with lyrical themes of anti-politics, anti-greed, and personal freedom.
Folie a Deux is a death metal band from Sundsvall on the northern Swedish coast, formed in 2016. Named after the psychiatric phenomenon of shared psychosis, they deliver death metal from the Norrland coastline.
Folklore Negro is a progressive doom/death metal band formed in 2020 in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. The band has released three full-length albums: Feto majadero (2020), Al amparo del silencio (2022), and Ornamento de cicatrices (2024).
Folkmord is a death metal/punk band from Umea in northern Sweden, active since 2011. Their name — Swedish for 'genocide' — and their blending of death metal with punk reflect the politically charged, crust-adjacent underground of Umea, a city historically associated with radical politics.
Follow the Hollow is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2023. The band blends Gothenburg-style melodic death metal with metalcore intensity.
Folterkammer — German for "torture chamber" — is an avant-garde black metal project centered on the four-octave operatic soprano voice of Andromeda Anarchia, who pairs her classical coloratura training with feral black metal screams singing entirely in German. Signed to Century Media Records, their albums "Die Lederpredigt" (Gilead Media, 2020) and "Weibermacht" (Century Media, 2024) fuse Baroque composition, black metal riffing, and explicitly provocative lyrical themes.
Fondlecorpse is a death metal band from Rotterdam in the Netherlands, active since 1999. They represent the long-running Dutch death metal underground, contributing over two decades of brutality from one of the country's largest and most culturally diverse cities.
For a Dozen Matters is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2013 and combining melodic death metal's hooks with thrash metal's aggression. The project operates within Athens's thriving extreme metal scene.
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