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Forlornness is a depressive black metal project from Turkey, formed in 2015. They channel the emotional desolation and anguished introspection of depressive black metal from the Turkish underground.
Fornicatus is a depressive black metal project from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2014. The project channels despair and emotional extremity through DSBM.
Fragile Edge is a depressive black metal project from Tolyatti on the Volga, formed in 2014. They channel anguished, introspective black metal from the massive automobile-manufacturing city in the Samara Oblast.
Freitodt is a depressive black metal project from Germany, active since 2007. The project channels despair and melancholy through bleak, atmospheric depressive black metal.
Frio Insólito is a Brazilian depressive black metal project active since 2020. The band contributed the track "Dor e Angústia" to the compilation DSBM Brazil - Vol. I (2019), placing them within the organized community of Brazilian depressive and suicidal black metal acts.
From Beyond the Grave is a depressive black metal project from Niebüll, Germany, formed in 2020. The project channels bleak despair through DSBM from the northernmost reaches of Schleswig-Holstein, near the Danish border.
Frostveil is an atmospheric/depressive black metal project from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, formed in 2014. They channel melancholic, atmosphere-laden black metal from the historic Volga-Oka confluence city.
Frozen Namida is a depressive black metal project from Belarus, formed in 2025. The project channels raw emotional anguish through the lens of DSBM, a very recent addition to the Belarusian black metal underground.
Fran is a depressive black metal project from Foggia in Puglia, active since 2016. They deliver anguished, introspective depressive black metal from Italy's southeastern Adriatic plains, exploring themes of isolation and despair.
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