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Fat Greasy Beast is a stoner/doom metal band from Turin, Italy, formed in 2022. Their releases Slow Down For Wildlife and Bloom Of Doom trade in the low-and-slow heaviness the genre demands, channeling fuzz-drenched riffs through a deliberately grimy aesthetic.
Fat Rhino is a doom/stoner metal band from Löningen, Germany, formed in 2024. The band delivers massive, fuzz-drenched doom and stoner grooves from the rural Lower Saxony town.
Father Merrin is a doom metal band from Ligny-en-Barrois, France, formed in 2014. Named after the exorcist priest from "The Exorcist," the band channels slow, heavy doom from the Meuse department of Lorraine.
Father of Lies is a doom metal/punk band from Sheffield, England, formed in 2021. The band merges doom metal's crushing weight with punk's raw energy from the Steel City.
Father Sky Mother Earth is a drone/doom metal duo from Hamburg, Germany, featuring Nico Seel on guitar and Niclas Gerull on bass. Their albums — the self-titled debut (2016) and "Across the River of Time" (2017) — create dense, meditative drone soundscapes drawing comparisons to Sunn O))), Bongripper, and Earth, described by critics as "superior drone" with ritualistic, pounding rhythmic elements.
Fathom is a doom/sludge metal band from Amsterdam, formed in 2018. They plumb the depths suggested by their name, delivering heavy, oppressive doom and sludge from the Dutch capital's thriving underground metal scene.
Fatigue is a black/doom metal project originating between Poland and the United Kingdom, formed in 2013 and now based solely in Poland. They channel exhaustion and spiritual weariness through the heavy, deliberate pace of doom metal darkened by black metal's bleak atmosphere.
Fatima is a stoner/doom metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2010. The band delivers heavy stoner and doom grooves from the French capital.
Fatum Elisum is a doom/death metal band from Rouen, France, active since 2009. The band creates crushing doom/death from the historic Norman capital on the Seine.
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