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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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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.
Aurora, Illinois's Far Under blends groove metal's rhythmic momentum with metalcore's structural intensity, active since 2019. The Chicago suburb has quietly produced a band that leans into heaviness with both fists.
Farewell to Arms is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Landsberg am Lech, Germany, formed in 2015. The band blends the dual-guitar harmonies of melodic death metal with the breakdowns and intensity of modern metalcore.
Fatal Error is a metalcore band from Rosenheim, Germany, formed in 2016. The band delivers aggressive, breakdown-laden metalcore from the Upper Bavarian city at the foot of the Alps.
Fatal Step is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Simferopol, Ukraine, formed in 2014. They bring melodic extreme metal from the Crimean capital.
Fates Messenger is a metalcore band from South England, formed in 2024. The band delivers aggressive metalcore from the southern English region.
Fateweaver is a metalcore band from Darlington, England, formed in 2024. The band crafts aggressive metalcore from the County Durham town.
Fear Bound is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Cambridge, England, formed in 2018. The band blends Gothenburg-style melodic death metal with modern metalcore from the university city.
Fear My Thoughts was a hardcore/metalcore turned melodic death metal band from Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, active from the early 2000s onward. Their discography includes "The Great Collapse" (2004) and "Hell Sweet Hell" (2005) via Lifeforce Records, charting an evolution from metalcore roots to a heavier, melodic death metal approach.
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