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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
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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Forever It Shall Be is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Brunswick, Germany, formed in 2007. With nearly two decades of activity, the band blends Gothenburg-style melodic death metal with modern metalcore.
Forgotten Scream is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Zrenjanin in the Vojvodina province of Serbia, formed in 2017. They blend Scandinavian melodic death metal influence with metalcore dynamics from the Banat region of northern Serbia.
Forgotten Tears is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2011. They channel the emotional intensity of melodic death metal through a metalcore framework, operating from one of Italy's most active heavy music cities.
Forsaken World is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from the Nancy/Langres area of France, formed in 2012. The band fuses melodic death metal with metalcore from the Lorraine-Champagne border.
Four-O-Five Code is a metalcore band from Marseille, France, formed in 2013. The band delivers aggressive metalcore from the Mediterranean port city.
Fourth Crusade is a metalcore band from the Marburg/Giessen area of Germany, formed in 2015. Named after the infamous 1204 siege of Constantinople, the band delivers heavy, breakdown-driven metalcore.
Fractal is a melodic death/power metal/metalcore band from Samara on the Volga, active since 2009. They blend multiple metal traditions — Scandinavian melodic death, European power metal, and modern metalcore — into a hybrid approach from one of Russia's largest Volga cities.
Fractured Inside is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2022. The band fuses melodic death metal harmonies with modern metalcore aggression.
Fragments of Revenge was a metalcore band formed in 2009, with members initially based in Mexico before relocating to Berlin, Germany. The band released the six-track EP Drowned in Hate in 2016, recorded via file sharing between Mexico and Berlin, before splitting up.
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