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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Forbidden Forest is a thrash/progressive metal band from Drammen, Norway, formed in 2024. They blend thrash metal aggression with progressive complexity from the Buskerud city on the Oslofjord.
Forbidden Shape is a death/thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2013. They deliver technically charged death/thrash from Moscow's deep and competitive extreme metal underground.
Forbidden Zone is a thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2023. The band delivers fast, aggressive thrash from the German capital's ever-growing extreme music scene.
Force of Hell is a thrash metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2020. The band delivers relentless, high-speed thrash metal fury from the Czech capital.
Forced Asphyxia is a heavy/thrash/death metal band from Scotland, formed in 2011. The band blends the weight of heavy metal with thrash and death metal aggression.
Forced Kill is a thrash metal band from Jyväskylä, Finland, active since 2009. The band has spent over 15 years delivering unrelenting thrash metal from central Finland.
Forceps is a heavy/thrash metal and funk rock band from Zalau in northwestern Romania, active since 2012. Their unusual blend of thrash metal aggression with funk rock groove makes them one of the more stylistically eclectic acts in the Romanian metal underground.
Forceps was a thrash metal band from Taubaté, São Paulo, Brazil that has since split up. The band released the demo "Scars of the World" in 2002, their primary documented output from their active years.
Fore is an alternative/thrash metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2020. The band blends alternative metal's accessibility with thrash metal's intensity from northern Finland.
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