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Started as stoner/sludge, pivoted to thrash and black metal territory. Played their final show at Kick Butt Coffee in July 2022.
Fluid is a death/sludge metal band based across Gera, Leipzig, and Chemnitz, Germany, formed in 2021. The band merges the heaviness of death metal with the thick, abrasive textures of sludge.
For the Storms is a doom/death/sludge band from Brescia, Italy, formed in 2021. Their releases The Grieving Path and Losing What's Left of Us chart a heavy, emotionally charged path through doom, death, sludge, and post-metal territories, with song titles mapping landscapes of loss and desolation.
Forced to Decay was a death metal/grindcore band from Solingen, Germany, active from 1994 until 2001. Over their nine-year run, they played more than 350 shows and released three CDs/LPs alongside several other recordings, with members going on to form The Other and Kontrolle after the band's dissolution.
Crushing Blackened Sludge / Stoner Metal from Austin.
Foreboder is a doom/sludge metal and hardcore band from Selby, England, formed in 2018. The band merges doom and sludge metal's crushing weight with hardcore's aggression from the North Yorkshire town.
Foreshadower is a doom/sludge/post-metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2019. The band layers doom metal's weight, sludge metal's grime, and post-metal's atmospheric expansion into dense compositions.
Forever Wasted is a sludge/doom metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, active since 2011. They deliver the heavy, intoxicated weight of sludge and doom from the Ukrainian capital's diverse metal scene.
Forge of Clouds is an atmospheric sludge/post-metal band from Lubin in the Lower Silesian copper basin, active since 2011. Their evocative name captures the atmospheric, textural quality of their post-metal approach — heavy music shaped and reformed like clouds in an industrial forge.
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