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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Falloch is a band from Glasgow, Scotland, that evolved from folk/post-rock/metal into drone and funeral doom territory. Their stylistic journey reflects a dramatic shift from atmospheric post-rock into crushing, glacially slow extremity.
Named after a landmark from Middle-earth, Falls of Rauros emerged from Portland, Maine in 2007 and built a reputation for atmospheric black metal deeply entwined with folk melody. Their music has a wild, elemental quality that feels genuinely tied to the cold forests and granite coasts of the Northeast.
Fangorn is a folk/black metal band from Hallwang, Salzburg, formed in 1998, now active under the name Rivendell. Drawing directly on J.R.R. Tolkien's mythology, their original 1998 demo "Poems of Mountains and Forests" — remastered and reissued as "Fangorn: Poems of Mountains and Forests" in 2024 — blends raw black metal with epic folk arrangements and fantasy-themed lyrics.
Fearlight is a pagan/folk metal band from Saint Petersburg, having evolved from earlier doom/gothic metal origins since 2019. Their stylistic transformation traces a journey from dark, slow heaviness to the folk-infused paganism of their current incarnation.
Feast of the Bards is an epic folk/viking/power metal project from Prague, Czech Republic, founded in 2022 by songwriter Branislav Škrábal. Their 2024 EP "To the Edge of the World" features flutist and clean vocalist Hanka Osifová alongside faster-paced folk-death metal with fantasy and historical narrative themes, recorded at studio Sonidos.
Februari 93 is a folk metal band from Gavle in the Gastrikland region, active since 1997. Nearly three decades of folk-infused metal make them one of Sweden's longest-running acts in the genre, predating the folk metal boom of the 2000s.
Fejd is a folk metal band from Lilla Edet in western Sweden, having evolved from pure folk origins into folk metal since 2009. They root their heavy music in authentic Swedish folk traditions, creating a distinctive Scandinavian folk metal identity.
Ruthless Folk / Melodic Death Metal from Plano.
Ferndal is a melodic black metal project from Münster, Germany, formed in 2017, incorporating folk and classical influences. The project blends the harshness of black metal with folk melodies and classical instrumentation from the Westphalian university city.
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