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F.I.G.M.O is a heavy metal/hard rock/power metal band from Manchester, United Kingdom, active since 2006. The band has spent nearly two decades delivering heavy metal and hard rock from the northern English city.
F.O.A.M. arrived on the Evansville, Indiana underground in 2024 fusing the blastbeat brutality of grindcore with power metal's melodic ambition — a deliberately jarring combination that keeps listeners off-balance.
Fabula Rasa is a power/folk metal band from Düsseldorf, Germany, formed in 2020. The band weaves folk instruments and storytelling into an energetic power metal framework.
Factory of Art is a progressive heavy/power metal band from Leipzig, Germany, active since 1990 and now in their fourth decade. They describe their sound as "artfully arranged, timeless rhythms forming an extraordinary symbiosis of progressive, power, and classic metal," with releases including "Story of Pain" and "Back to Life."
Fairyland is a symphonic power metal band from Nice, France, active since 2006. The band crafts epic, orchestrally rich symphonic power metal from the French Riviera.
Fairytale is a heavy/power metal band from Recklinghausen, Germany, formed in 2011. The band delivers melodic, anthemic heavy and power metal from the heart of the Ruhr area.
Fairywhite is a progressive heavy/power metal band from Gütersloh, Germany, formed in 2020. The band combines the technical ambition of progressive metal with the melodic drive of power metal.
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 Healer is a heavy/power metal band from Florence, Italy, founded in 2014 by three former members of Frozen Tears alongside two veterans of the local metal scene. Their releases D-Evolution and Two Worlds carry forward the melodic muscle of classic Italian power metal with a heavier, more modern edge.
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