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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Firetower is a thrash metal band from Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains, active since 1996. Nearly three decades of thrash metal from the industrial city on the Europe-Asia boundary make them one of the longest-running extreme acts in the Urals.
First Aid is a power/thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany. The band combines the melodic hooks of power metal with the aggressive edge of thrash from the German capital.
First Blood is a thrash metal band from Bexleyheath, England, formed in 2017. The band delivers fast, aggressive thrash metal from the southeast London borough.
First Strike is a thrash/speed metal band from the Wachenroth/Erlangen area of Germany, formed in 2022. The band plays fast, aggressive thrash and speed metal from the Franconian region.
Fission is a melodic thrash/death metal band from Skelleftea in the Vasterbotten region, formed in 2023. They bring melodic extreme metal to the Swedish subarctic, blending thrash and death metal from one of Norrland's mining towns.
Fizz is a power/thrash metal band from Scheibenberg, Germany, formed in 2023. The band brings energetic power and thrash metal from the small Erzgebirge mountain town in Saxony.
Flag is a thrash/death metal band from Nitra in western Slovakia, active since 1999. Over a quarter century of thrash and death metal from one of Slovakia's oldest cities make them among the most enduring extreme metal acts in the country.
Flame Emperor is a death/thrash metal band from Samara on the Volga bend, formed in 2024. They bring aggressive death/thrash to one of Russia's major Volga River cities.
Flame of Grave is a thrash metal/crossover band from Milevsko, Czech Republic, formed in 2021. The band blends the aggression of thrash with crossover punk energy.
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