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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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Flagras is a black metal band from Kiel, Germany, formed in 2020. The band creates black metal from Germany's northernmost major city on the Baltic coast.
Flagrvm is a black metal project from Poland, formed in 2020. Their Latinized name — the Roman scourging whip — evokes the punishing, ritualistic character of their black metal from the Polish underground.
Flail is a black metal project from Finland, formed in 2018. The project channels the primal aggression of black metal.
Flailhead is a melodic progressive metal band from Cardiff, Wales, formed in 2016. The band explores complex, melodically driven progressive metal from the Welsh capital.
Flak is a black metal band from Karlsruhe, Germany, formed in 2016. The band channels dark, aggressive black metal from the Baden city.
Flaktiin is a black/death metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2016. They merge the raw hostility of black metal with death metal's crushing weight from the Portuguese capital's thriving extreme metal underground.
Flame Emperor is a death/thrash metal band from Samara on the Volga bend, formed in 2024. They bring aggressive death/thrash to one of Russia's major Volga River cities.
Flame Fracture is a melodic death metal band from the Plymouth/Exeter area of England, formed in 2012. The band crafts melodic death metal from the Devon coast.
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