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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Fiume is a black metal project from Italy, formed in 2017. Their work channels the atmospheric and introspective side of Italian black metal, with the project name — Italian for 'river' — suggesting a contemplative, nature-oriented approach to the genre.
Fiume Nero is an anarchist black metal project from Brescia, Italy, founded in June 2008 by guitarist Enna Cancry. Now a duo with vocalist Simon Desecrator, their prolific catalog includes over fifteen years of material spanning the 15th Anniversary best-of compilations and the Lovecraft album series, all delivered through a politically charged, anti-authoritarian lens.
Fiur is a melodic black metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2019. The project blends the darkness of black metal with melodic guitar work from the German capital.
Five Days Dead is a death metal band from the United Kingdom, active since 2000. With over two decades of activity, the band has been a persistent presence in the British death metal underground.
Five Days of Rain is a metalcore band from Alessandria, Italy, formed in 2010 and drawing on philosophical and spiritual themes. Their 2012 release Through 1000 Eyes is a conceptual work rooted in Schopenhauer's philosophy and Hindu thought, tracing an introspective journey from the veil of Maya toward self-determination.
Five Finger Death Punch stormed out of Las Vegas in 2005 and became one of the 21st century's biggest hard rock bands through sheer aggression and arena-ready hooks. Vocalist Ivan Moody's blend of melodic singing and savage screaming powers anthems like 'The Bleeding' and 'Wash It All Away' that dominate rock radio and military playlists alike. Love them or not, their brand of groove metal and hard rock has sold millions of records and fills amphitheaters across the globe.
Five Gallon Bottle is a stoner/southern metal and rock band from Ovar on the northern Portuguese coast, active since 2015. Their good-ol'-boy name and southern metal approach transplant the heavy, groove-laden American stoner metal tradition to the Atlantic coast of Portugal.
Five the Hierophant is an avant-garde post-black/doom metal band from London, incorporating dark ambient and jazz elements. The band creates a singular fusion of extreme metal, dark ambient, and jazz from the British capital.
Five Will Die is a sludge/doom metal band from Cork, Ireland, one of the longer-running heavy bands in the Munster scene with origins dating back to 2006. The project delivers crushing sludge and doom metal from southern Ireland.
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