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Fragmentary Flesh is a death metal band from Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains, formed in 2019. They deliver death metal aggression from Russia's fourth-largest city, the gateway between European and Asian Russia.
Fragmentation is a melodic death metal band from Mönchsdeggingen, Germany, formed in 2020. The band delivers melodic death metal from the small Swabian village in Bavaria.
Fragments of Despair is a death/thrash metal band from the island of Paros in the Greek Cyclades, active since 2015. The project delivers extreme metal from one of the Aegean's most unexpected metal outposts.
Fragments of Unbecoming is a melodic death metal band from Laudenbach, Germany, active since 2002 with an extensive discography organized as numbered chapters. Their catalog spans from "Bloodred Tales — Chapter I / The Crimson Season" through "Perdition Portal — Chapter VI" and the 2024 "Lakespectre" demo, representing over two decades of prolific melodic death metal.
Fragmentum is a melodic death metal band from Lokeren, Belgium, founded by Jan and Gunnar and rounded out by Wouter on drums and Ozzy on bass. They blend melodies, synths, and ambient sounds over a heavy groove-riff foundation, and have toured with acts including Children of Bodom, Swallow the Sun, Wolfheart, Soulfly, and Annihilator across releases like "Masters of Perplexity," "Pugnacity," and "D!verge."
Fragore is a thrash/death metal trio from Turin, Italy, active since 2007 and featuring guitarist/vocalist Davide Nunziante, bassist Andrea Lorenti, and drummer Alessandro Baronetto. Their releases Asylum and The Reckoning deliver tight, aggressive thrash/death metal forged in the Piedmontese underground.
Frailty is a doom/death metal band from Riga, Latvia, active since 2008, creating 'dark and disturbing sounds of melancholy and tragedy.' Across five albums from Lost Lifeless Lights through Tumsi Udeni (2020), they blend doom/death heaviness with abstract ambient passages and ethnic soundscapes, performing in Latvian — a rarity in European extreme metal.
Frakasm is a death metal band from Dunkirk, France, formed in 2016. The band channels death metal from the Channel port city in French Flanders.
Fraktal is a brutal death metal band from Igualada, Spain, formed in 2012. The band delivers relentless brutal death metal from the Catalan industrial town.
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