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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Furious Hardcore (early); Thrash Metal / Metalcore (later) from Laredo.
Full Metal Jacket is a death/thrash metal band from Piotrkow Trybunalski in central Poland, formed in 2024. Named after Kubrick's Vietnam War film, they deliver heavy, aggressive death/thrash metal from the Lodz Voivodeship.
Full of Hate is a groove/death metal band from Ukrainka near Kyiv, formed in 2019. They deliver rhythmically charged death/groove metal from the suburban outskirts of the Ukrainian capital.
Fulminante is a thrash/death metal band from Pombos, Pernambuco, Brazil, formed in 2018. The band has released several independent recordings including the EP O Início do Fim, tracked at InTocas Studio in Caruaru, and the EPs Liberte a Besta and Fuerza y acero, both released in 2023.
Fulmination is a death metal band from Avesta in the Dalarna region, formed in 2013. They deliver death metal from the Swedish mining country, named after the explosive detonation their music emulates.
Fume is a sludge/death metal band from Coventry, England, active since 2018 and merging sludge metal's oppressive weight with death metal's ferocity. The project channels the industrial heritage of Coventry into extreme metal.
Fumist is a grindcore/powerviolence and death metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2024. The band delivers short, explosive bursts of extreme music.
Funebrö is a black/death metal band from Mongaguá, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2017. They released a cluster of recordings in their debut year — including Ritual of Doom, Curse of the Dead, Necromancy, Death by Metal, and Satanists — and returned in 2023 with the release Mentecaptos.
Funeral Damage is a death metal/hardcore band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2021. The band merges death metal's heaviness with hardcore's raw energy from the German capital.
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