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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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HYPA HYPA Tour - Live In Ludwigsburg (2023)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Atlantic Albums (2019)
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Albuquerque's Fallout channels the sun-scorched tenacity of the Southwest into classic heavy metal, active since 2018. Their music leans on the fundamentals — raw riffs, driving rhythms, and an uncompromising attitude.
Out of Hazelton, Pennsylvania, this Fallout has been delivering hard-hitting heavy metal since 2018. There's a regional grit to their approach that speaks to the working-class roots of the genre.
False Idols is a heavy metal band from Germany, formed in 2013. The band plays classic-style heavy metal steeped in the traditions of the genre.
Falsos Profetas is a heavy/thrash metal band from Écija and later Almería, Spain, formed in 2021. The band plays aggressive heavy and thrash metal from southern Andalusia.
Colorado's Fantasia takes a hard rock–leaning approach to heavy metal, formed in 2018 with a sound that's melodic without sacrificing edge. Their name and style both suggest a certain classicist sensibility.
Mount Prospect, Illinois's Fantasm weaves progressive metal ambition together with the melodic urgency of power metal, active since 2023. The suburb of Chicago is an unlikely incubator for this kind of soaring, technically adept sound, but it works.
Fantazm is a heavy metal band from Voronezh in southern Russia, formed in 2014. They deliver classic heavy metal from one of Russia's largest cities in the Central Black Earth region.
Rochester's Fantom deals in traditional heavy metal with a shadowy theatricality that suits the band's name. Since 2017 they've been part of upstate New York's small but committed metal underground.
San Luis Obispo's Fantom Fire brings heavy metal energy to California's Central Coast, a region not typically associated with the genre. Formed in 2022, they're one of those welcome surprises found in unexpected ZIP codes.
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