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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Fraktur is a black/death metal band from Frahier-et-Châtebier, France, formed in 2017. The band merges black and death metal from the Franche-Comté village.
Frame of Mind is a speed/thrash/power metal band from Dinslaken, Germany, formed in 2017, having evolved from earlier death/thrash roots. The band blends the speed and energy of thrash with the melodic sensibilities of power metal from the lower Rhine region.
Frankior is a progressive doom/death metal band from Mainz, Germany, formed in 2021. The band fuses progressive song structures with the crushing weight of doom and death metal from the Rhineland-Palatinate capital.
Fransis Forth is a melodic death/black metal project from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2025. As a very recent addition to the Bulgarian extreme metal scene, the project blends melodic sensibilities with the aggression of death and black metal.
Frantic Disruption is a melodic death metal band from Hanover, Germany, formed in 2018. The band crafts melodic death metal from the Lower Saxony capital.
Fraquien is a death metal band from Bursa, Turkey, formed in 2026. They represent the newest generation of Turkish extreme metal, emerging from the former Ottoman capital at the foot of Mount Uludag.
Fratzengeballer is a death metal/grindcore band from Frankfurt, Germany, formed in 2019. The band's name — roughly meaning "face-blasting" — captures the intensity of their extreme output.
Fraught is a death/black metal band from Dublin, Ireland, active since 2019 and delivering dual-pronged extremity from the Irish capital. The project merges death and black metal traditions.
Frayed Illusion is a melodic death metal band from Athens, Greece, emerging in 2026 as part of the newest generation of Hellenic melodeath. The project channels Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal through a Greek perspective.
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