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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Fred Brum is a progressive metal solo artist from Lisbon, Portugal, active since 2011. He channels technically ambitious, instrumentally focused progressive metal as a solo endeavor, contributing to Portugal's small but dedicated progressive metal community.
Frevel is a progressive black metal band from Tuttlingen, Germany, formed in 2022. The band pushes black metal into progressive territory from the Swabian town on the upper Danube.
From Silence is a progressive death metal band from the Grenoble/Lyon area of France, formed in 2015. The band explores the progressive side of death metal from the Rhône-Alpes region.
Frostborn is a melodic power/progressive metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2025. The band combines power metal grandeur with progressive ambition.
FrostFire is a progressive melodic heavy metal band from Bath, England, blending progressive song structures with melodic heavy metal since 2014. The project draws on Bath's creative energy to craft technically ambitious metal.
Frozen Hope is a progressive death metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2020. Their paradoxical name — hope rendered immobile by cold — reflects the tension between beauty and brutality in their progressive death metal approach.
Frozen in Time is a melodic heavy/progressive metal band from Vestbirk, Denmark, formed in 2014. The band crafts ambitious, melodically driven progressive metal from the central Jutland village.
Frozen Night is a progressive metalcore band from Zakopane in the Tatra Mountains of southern Poland, formed in 2013. They blend metalcore intensity with progressive complexity from Poland's most famous mountain resort town.
Fulcrum is a progressive death metal/grindcore band from the Tri-City area of Gdansk, Gdynia, and Sopot, active since 2012. They blend the technical ambition of progressive death metal with grindcore's explosive intensity from the Baltic coast.
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