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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)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Flames at Sunrise is a metalcore band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2014. The band delivers aggressive, breakdown-driven metalcore from the Catalan capital.
Flamethrower is a heavy metal band from Koprivnica, Croatia, active since 2018 and delivering traditional riff-driven metal from the Podravina region. The project channels classic heavy metal energy from northern Croatia.
Flaming Blood is a self-described heavy metal band from Simão Dias, Brazil. The band released their self-titled debut EP "The Fires's Calling" in January 2016, a seven-track digital release featuring songs such as "Battlefield," "Marks of Time," and "The Reaper."
Flaming Row is a progressive metal band from Göttingen, Germany, formed in 2010. With over a decade of activity, the band has been exploring ambitious progressive metal compositions from the Lower Saxon university city.
Flaming Senses is a thrash metal band from Lauterbach, Germany, formed in 2015. The band delivers fast, aggressive thrash metal from the Hessian Vogelsberg region.
Flaming Skies is a metalcore band from Bacau in the Moldavia region of eastern Romania, formed in 2020. They bring modern metalcore energy to one of Romania's less represented regions in heavy music.
Flammae is a black metal project from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2023. Their Latin name — meaning 'flames' — signals the incendiary spirit of their black metal from the Polish capital.
Flammenkvlt was a post-black metal band from Salzburg, Austria, active from 2020 to 2021. In their brief existence they contributed the track "A Song Against the Void" to the Austrian Metal News Vol. 1 compilation (Running Wild Productions, December 2021), which served as a document of the contemporary Austrian extreme metal underground.
Flammentod is a black metal band from Schwalmstadt, Germany, formed in 2022. The project's name — German for "death by fire" — conveys the scorching intensity of their black metal.
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