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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Fading Trail is a death metal/grindcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019. The band delivers grinding death metal from the Finnish capital.
Faecal Putrefaction is a brutal death metal/goregrind band from Arrecife, Lanzarote, Spain, formed in 2024. The band brings extreme goregrind brutality from the Canary Islands.
Faexemia is a melodic death metal/grindcore band from Bethmale, France, formed in 2025. The band merges melodic death metal with grindcore from the remote Pyrenean valley.
Fake Idyll is a death metal/grindcore band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2013. The band merges the brutality of death metal with the short, violent bursts of grindcore.
One of Los Angeles' longer-running death metal acts, Fallen Angel have persisted since 1992 in a city that's churned through thousands of bands — a testament to their commitment to the form. Their longevity in the L.A. underground speaks to a stubborn dedication to death metal's roots.
False Flag Attack is a grindcore band from Crailsheim, Germany, formed in 2012. The band delivers short, explosive bursts of political grindcore fury from the Baden-Württemberg town.
Charleston, South Carolina's False Light has been dismantling songs into grindcore fragments since 2012 — brief, brutal, and over before you can catch your breath. They prove the South has plenty of extremity to offer.
Milwaukee's Falter has been combining the chaos of grindcore with metalcore's structured intensity since 2011. The pairing creates something with both the brevity and fury of grind and the purposeful aggression of core.
Fanculo Merda is a grindcore band from Cagliari, Sardinia, whose five members play what they call 'grindabestiapunkcore' — a feral collision of grind, punk, and hardcore. Releases including Malessere Esistenziale and Dawson deliver deliberately provocative, unfiltered blasts of extreme noise.
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