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Fishead is a progressive metal band from São José dos Campos, Brazil, founded in December 2009 by guitarist Danilo Martins and drummer Rodrigo Kusayama as a university project before expanding into a full band. They released their debut album "Green Hope" in 2012, followed by the second album "In My Hell" in 2018, the latter recorded at Acrobata Studio and featuring a fusion of hard rock and progressive metal with aggressive lyrical themes. Vocalist Jezer Ferris, a musician with over 30 years of experience, joined the lineup in 2015.
Fishing with Dynamite is a melodic death metal and deathcore band from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2017. The project fuses melodic hooks with extreme metal heaviness from the Hungarian capital.
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.
Fissure of Riddles is a progressive/sludge/post-metal band from Weymouth, England, formed in 2014. The band merges progressive complexity with sludge and post-metal from the Dorset coast.
Fist is a NWOBHM/heavy metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The band carries the torch of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal tradition from the Tyneside city.
Fistful is a heavy metal band from Järvenpää, Finland, formed in 2014. The band delivers hard-hitting heavy metal from the southern Finnish town.
Fisura is a groove metal/metalcore band from Alcázar de San Juan, Spain, formed in 2016. The band blends groove metal rhythms with metalcore intensity from the La Mancha region.
Fisura Craneal is a brutal death metal band from Buenos Aires whose lineup includes Pavlo, Mario, Fede, and Visiones. They released their debut "La Logia del Mal" in February 2013, and followed it with "Desobedientes Oms" in March 2015 — a live recording captured at the sixth edition of the Slaughter Metal Fest in Pilar in December 2014.
East Texas metalcore with massive breakdowns and melodic hooks. One of the biggest modern metalcore bands.
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