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People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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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Flattening is a death metal band from Kroměříž, Czech Republic, formed in 2025. As one of the newest entries in the Czech death metal scene, the band brings fresh brutality from the historic Moravian town.
Flatulence is a goregrind-turned-death metal/grindcore band from Moscow, formed in 2018. Their evolution from pure goregrind to more structured death metal reflects a maturing approach to extreme music while maintaining visceral intensity.
Flauros is a black metal band from Joensuu, Finland, active since 2001. Named after the Great Duke of Hell, the band has spent over two decades forging black metal from eastern Finland.
Louisville's Flaw emerged during the nu-metal boom with their 2001 Republic/Universal debut 'Through the Eyes,' blending Chris Volz's emotionally raw vocals with heavy, down-tuned grooves that sat comfortably alongside peers like Sevendust and Chevelle. After breaking up and reforming multiple times, the band has continued to release music and tour, maintaining a loyal fanbase in the hard rock underground.
Flawless Victory is a groove/death metal band from the Stamford/Bourne area of England, formed in 2010. The band delivers heavy groove and death metal from the Lincolnshire/Rutland border.
Flayed Disciple is a death/thrash metal band from Taunton, England, active since 2008. The band has spent nearly two decades delivering extreme death and thrash metal from the Somerset town.
Flaygoth is a black/Viking metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2010. They merge the atmospheric sweep of Viking metal with black metal's hostility, channeling Norse themes from the Russian capital.
Flaying is a brutal death metal/grindcore project from Riga, Latvia, formed in 2025. They represent the newest wave of Baltic extreme metal, channeling the raw aggression of grindcore and brutal death metal from the Latvian capital.
Fleam is a black metal project from England, formed in 2020. The project creates atmospheric black metal from the English underground.
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