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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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Farer is an atmospheric sludge/post-metal band split between Groningen and Utrecht in the Netherlands, formed in 2021. They blend the crushing weight of sludge with the expansive dynamics of post-metal, creating atmospheric heaviness shaped by the Dutch lowland landscape.
Chicago's Farseer has been building slow, crushing sonic architecture since 2012, drawing on the city's tradition of heavy music to craft dense post-metal and sludge that rewards patient listeners. Their music moves like tectonic plates — glacial, inevitable, and massive.
Fashion Killers is a death/sludge metal band from Essen, Germany, formed in 2019. The band merges the brutality of death metal with the thick, low-end heaviness of sludge from the industrial Ruhr city.
Fathom is a doom/sludge metal band from Amsterdam, formed in 2018. They plumb the depths suggested by their name, delivering heavy, oppressive doom and sludge from the Dutch capital's thriving underground metal scene.
Fearadox is a technical sludge metal band from Malmo, Sweden, formed in 2025. They bring technical precision to sludge metal's heaviness from Sweden's third-largest city at the southern tip of the country.
Fehler is a sludge/doom metal and hardcore band from 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, formed in 2019. Their German-derived name — meaning 'error' or 'flaw' — matches the abrasive, confrontational character of their sludge-soaked hardcore from the North Brabant capital.
Feral Thrust is a sludge metal and crust band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2010 alongside the Limbs Disarm DIY collective. Their 2018 release Il Grembo della Rovina explores humanity's destructive relationship with nature through two extended tracks of blackened crust and stenchcore, recorded at the Kalashnikov collective's headquarters.
Fever Sun is a black/sludge metal project from Pordenone, Italy, self-described as a 'local discomfort unit.' Their 2025 debut Index spans four tracks across thirty-two minutes of atmosphere-heavy black metal fused with sludge and doom, praised for its balance of crushing weight and compositional nuance.
Fiasko is a post-metal band from Warsaw that has evolved toward sludge/black metal since their 2017 formation. Their stylistic journey from atmospheric post-metal to more aggressive sludge and black metal territory mirrors the restless creative energy of the Polish capital's underground scene.
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