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Filicide is a depressive black metal project from Tula, Russia, formed in 2018. Their name — meaning the killing of one's own child — signals the psychologically extreme territory of their depressive black metal from the city south of Moscow.
Floyen is an atmospheric/depressive black metal project from Waterford, Ireland, active since 2024. The project creates dark, emotionally charged black metal from Ireland's oldest city.
Fodt Ruine is a depressive black metal project from Ufa in Bashkortostan, Russia, formed in 2021. They channel anguished, introspective black metal from the Ural foothills, where the steppes of Central Asia begin.
Foranguish is a depressive black metal (DSBM) project from Ceará, Brazil, formed in 2024. The band's debut album The Pain of Isolation, released on January 23, 2024, is a seven-track, 42-minute record featuring raw, somber riffs and screamed vocals typical of the DSBM style, with keyboards adding atmospheric texture on the final tracks. The album received attention from underground DSBM communities and is available on both Bandcamp and Spotify.
Foraoisi gan Iniuchadh is a depressive black metal project from Wexford, Ireland, active since 2021, whose Irish-language name translates to 'forests without exploration.' The project channels the untamed Irish countryside into raw DSBM.
Forest Cult is a depressive black metal project from Lohja, Finland, formed in 2014. The project channels anguish and isolation through bleak DSBM from the southwestern Finnish town.
Forest of the Renounced is a depressive black metal project from Ivanovo in central Russia, formed in 2020. Their name suggests themes of exile and abandonment, channeling desolation through depressive black metal from the textile city northeast of Moscow.
Forgotten Thought is a funeral doom/depressive black metal project from Rome, Italy, formed in 2012. Their output dwells in the slowest, bleakest extremes of heavy music, merging the glacial pace of funeral doom with the anguished introspection of depressive black metal.
Forgotten Tomb is a pioneering Italian black metal band from Piacenza, founded in 1999 and recognized as one of the true originators of depressive black metal (DSBM). From the genre-defining Songs to Leave and Springtime Depression through later releases incorporating rock, sludge, and punk influences, the project has continually evolved while maintaining its nihilistic core.
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