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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fields of Agony is a raw black metal project from the United Kingdom, formed in 2026. The project is among the newest raw black metal voices in the British underground.
Fimbulvinter is a raw black metal band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 2015. The band's name references the catastrophic winter of Norse mythology that precedes Ragnarök, fitting a sound rooted in atmospheric, lo-fi black metal extremity. They released the two-part demo series The Final Tale in 2019, comprising The Final Tale I – Snow Storm and The Final Tale II – Jarl.
Finsterwald is a raw black metal project from Saarbrücken, Germany, formed in 2025. The project's name — "dark forest" — evokes the primal wilderness central to their raw black metal aesthetic.
Firmamentum is an ambient/raw black metal project from Italy, active since 2014. Their debut Infinity Of The Forest was originally recorded on a small tape recorder — the band insists it is best heard in cassette format — blending raw black metal with dark ambient in a deliberately lo-fi, analog-first aesthetic.
Fjellvind is a raw black metal project from Burgas, Bulgaria, active since 2014. Their releases include "Vinterens Ondskap," "Skies Unfold," and "Wrath of a Titan," drawing on Scandinavian-influenced aesthetics filtered through a Bulgarian underground sensibility.
Fleckentarn is a raw black metal/punk project from Paris, France, formed in 2023. Named after the German camouflage pattern, the project merges raw black metal with punk energy.
Flúch is a raw black metal and ambient project from Belgium, formed in 2024. Their releases include "Wintr," "Abgrund," and a split with Woid, weaving together abrasive black metal with bleak atmospheric passages.
Forest of Harambe is a raw black metal project from Hordaland in western Norway, formed in 2016. Their name memorializes the Cincinnati Zoo gorilla in a darkly irreverent collision of internet culture and raw black metal nihilism.
Forest of Trys is a raw black metal, grindcore, and noise project from Kaunas, Lithuania, active since 2016. Their hybrid approach collapses the boundaries between black metal rawness, grindcore violence, and noise experimentation in the Lithuanian underground.
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