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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Forsaken Peddlers is an epic doom metal band from Rouen, France, formed in 2014. The band crafts grand, slow-burning epic doom from the Norman capital on the Seine.
Forsaken Shroud is a gothic/doom metal project from Edinburgh, Scotland, blending doom metal with gothic and sludge elements alongside synthesizers. Their 2021 demo on Tatterdemalion Records features three expansive tracks exploring dark, heavy territory.
Fossilization is a death/doom metal duo from São Paulo, Brazil, formed around 2020–2021, featuring members also known from the sludge/doom band Jupiterian. The band debuted with the EP He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten in 2021 on Everlasting Spew Records, followed by the full-length Leprous Daylight in 2023 and the sophomore album Advent of Wounds in February 2026, all released through Everlasting Spew.
Houston psychedelic doom metal signed to Ripple Music.
Fractured Spine is a gothic/death/doom metal band from Hämeenlinna, Finland, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of activity, the band has been crafting dark, atmospheric doom from the southern Finnish castle town.
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.
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.
Freakhate is a death metal/grindcore turned doom/death metal band from Gandia, Spain, active since 1993. With over three decades of activity, the band evolved from grinding extremity to slower, heavier doom/death territory from the Valencian coast.
Fregoli Delusion is a drone/funeral doom metal project from Vilnius, Lithuania, formed in 2021 and named after the rare psychiatric condition in which the sufferer believes different people are a single person in disguise. Their output trades in the slowest, most oppressive extremes of doom metal — glacial drones and suffocating funeral doom.
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