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FaceYourFears is a groove metal and metalcore band from Campobasso in southern Italy's Molise region, active since 2020. The project blends heavy grooves with metalcore intensity from one of Italy's least populated regions.
Out of Mathews, Louisiana, Factor 8 blend groove metal's driving rhythms with the thick, swampy heaviness of sludge metal — a combination that wears the bayou in every note since 2018.
Wilmington, North Carolina's Faith Collapsing pull from power metal's soaring melodicism, thrash's aggression, and groove metal's locked-in heaviness all at once, a combination they've been refining since getting together in 2022.
Fake Messiah is a groove metal band from Moudon, Switzerland, featuring vocalist Audrey Berset alongside guitarists Mathias Wadsack and Joachim Piguet, bassist Valentin Magnenat, and drummer Mathieu Piguet. Their debut full-length "Sip of Madness" (2013) was self-produced and mastered at Conatus Studio in Montreux.
Tulsa, Oklahoma's Falck formed in 2021 at the meeting point of thrash, groove, and traditional heavy metal — a combination that produces the kind of no-nonsense, hard-hitting music that the southern plains seem to generate with ease.
Fall Damage is a thrash/groove metal band from Finland, formed in 2020. The band combines thrash metal speed with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Portland, Oregon's Fall from Grace has been working the groove and thrash metal intersection since 2018, a city with a long history of heavy music providing the backdrop for riff-forward, rhythmically locked playing.
Philadelphia's Fall of Achilles formed in 2021 drawing from a wide net — groove, thrash, traditional heavy metal, and metalcore — reflecting Philly's history as a city where hardcore and metal have always bled into each other.
Pittsburgh's Fall of Babylon takes death metal's brutality and runs it through a groove metal sensibility — heavy, locked-in, and hard-hitting in a way that suits a city whose steel-town bones have always resonated with heavy music since 2023.
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