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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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A groove-driven force out of Capon Bridge, Virginia, F.E.A.R. merges the heavy, riff-locked churn of groove metal with the aggressive vocal attack of metalcore, carving out their sound since 2014.
Lawrence, Kansas band F29 have been pulling down-tuned doom grooves since 2012, stacking the slow, crushing weight of doom metal against heavier groove-driven rhythms that hit like a freight train.
Face Down is a southern/groove metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2010. The band blends southern metal's swagger with groove metal's rhythmic heaviness from the French capital.
Out of Mystic, Connecticut, this Face First blends thrash, groove metal, and metalcore into a hybrid sound that's been evolving since 2017, keeping a coastal New England edge to its aggression.
Face Towards Enemy is a southern/groove metal band from Kingston upon Hull, England, formed in 2016. The band blends southern metal's swagger with groove metal's rhythmic punch from the Humber estuary city.
Faceache is a groove/thrash metal band from Bury St. Edmunds, England, formed in 2023. The band delivers heavy groove and thrash metal from the Suffolk town.
Faceless Born is a groove/thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2020. They deliver rhythmically charged thrash and groove metal from the Russian capital's massive underground metal scene.
Raleigh's Faceless Enemy bring a different energy to the name, mixing groove metal's locked-in rhythm with thrash's urgency since 2022 in the heart of North Carolina's metal scene.
Albuquerque's FaceRipper opened for business in 2022 mixing death metal's malevolence with groove metal's locked rhythms — a New Mexico act that brings heaviness with a bone-snapping groove.
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