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F-Side is a progressive/melodic death metal band from Tradate near Varese in northern Italy, active since 2017. The project blends progressive song structures with melodic death metal's emotional intensity.
F.A.C.E. is a progressive metal/rock band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2010. The band explores the intersection of progressive complexity and heavy riffing within the Bulgarian metal scene.
Fabian Rauter is a Vienna-based solo progressive metal project in which the artist handles all instruments himself. His recorded output includes the EP "Tagarot" (2015) and the full-length "Against the Colossus," offering instrumental progressive metal built on intricate guitar work and shifting time signatures.
Fabulae Dramatis is a progressive and avant-garde metal act from Antwerp, Belgium, describing their sound as heavy world music that transcends traditional genre boundaries. Their catalog includes releases such as "Violenta," "Lead Astray / Indigo," and "Solar Time's Fables," each built on passages full of heaviness, intensity, and dramatism.
Face is a progressive thrash/heavy metal band from Opole, Poland, formed in 2022. They blend the technical complexity of progressive metal with thrash aggression from the Silesian city on the Oder River.
Face of Despair is a progressive doom/death metal project from Switzerland, formed in 2025. The project merges the introspective complexity of progressive metal with the crushing weight of doom and death metal.
Milwaukee's Face of Ruin began in 2011 blending progressive death metal with metalcore, gradually tightening their sound into something more direct and deadly without losing the compositional ambition.
Chicago's Faces of the Bog have been constructing psychedelic, progressive sludge-doom since 2016, blending the Windy City's experimental instincts with the heavy emotional weight of doom and sludge.
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.
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