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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Facing the Madness is a death/thrash metal and hardcore band from Hoogeveen in the Netherlands, formed in 2014. They fuse the technical aggression of death and thrash metal with hardcore intensity from the Drenthe province of the northern Netherlands.
Factor Kill is a thrash metal band from Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed around 2009–2010, operating independently on the underground scene. Self-described as "fast, violent, drunk and dirty," the band channels classic thrash aggression with lyrical themes centered on violence, chaos, war, society, and metal culture. They release their material independently through Bandcamp.
Factory is a thrash/heavy metal band from Turin, Italy, active since 2018 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven metal from the Piedmont capital. The project channels the industrial heritage of Turin into thrash metal.
Factura is a thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2011. They bring classic thrash metal aggression to Moscow's deep and competitive metal underground.
Fadead is a thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2021. The band delivers high-energy thrash metal from the German capital.
Faded Line is a thrash metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 2012 and delivering aggressive thrash from Greece's second city. The project channels the energy of Thessaloniki's vibrant metal scene.
Failsafe is a thrash metal band from Gloucester, England, formed in 2017. The band delivers fast, aggressive thrash metal from the western English cathedral city.
Fainted is a melodic thrash metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, active since 2011. They bring melodic sensibility to thrash metal's speed and aggression from the university city north of Stockholm.
Wilmington, North Carolina's Faith Collapsing pull from power metal's soaring melodicism, thrash's aggression, and groove metal's locked-in heaviness all at once, a combination they've been refining since getting together in 2022.
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