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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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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.
Five Wounds is a black metal project from Krakow, Poland, formed in 2014. Their name references the stigmata — the five wounds of Christ — signaling the religious and spiritual darkness at the core of their black metal from Poland's historic royal capital.
Fixation on Suffering is a brutal death metal band from the Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2017. The band delivers relentless, punishing brutal death metal from the northern Spanish autonomous community.
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.
Fjall is a melodic post-black metal band from Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2023. The project blends post-rock expansiveness with melodic black metal aggression.
Fjallsbur is an atmospheric post-black metal project from Iceland, emerging in 2025. The project creates expansive, landscape-driven post-black metal from the land of fire and ice.
Fjell is a black metal band from Illertissen, Germany, formed in 2019. The project's Scandinavian name — meaning "mountain" — speaks to their Nordic-influenced black metal from the Swabian town.
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