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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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Fleckentarn is a raw black metal/punk project from Paris, France, formed in 2023. Named after the German camouflage pattern, the project merges raw black metal with punk energy.
Flegethon is a black/death metal project from Athens, Greece, active since 2001 and operating in the Hellenic extreme metal underground. The project delivers dark, intense black and death metal from the Greek capital.
Flegeton is a doom/death metal band from Riihimäki, Finland, formed in 2015. Named after the river of fire in Greek mythology, the band creates crushing doom/death from the southern Finnish garrison town.
Flegeton Valve is a black metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2015. The band channels dark black metal from the southwestern Finnish city.
Flegias is a black/heavy metal project from Minervino Murge in the Barletta-Andria-Trani province of Puglia, formed in 2021. Named after the wrathful ferryman of Greek mythology who guards the fifth circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno, the project channels both black metal aggression and classic heavy metal weight.
Flegma is a thrash metal/crossover band from Malmo, Sweden, formed in 2017. They deliver high-speed crossover thrash from Sweden's southernmost major city on the Oresund strait.
Flehmen is a post-metal/post-rock band from Voghera in the Pavia province of Lombardy, active since 2013. Their releases Casa Nera (2013) and Venus (2014) explore atmospheric, expansive soundscapes at the intersection of post-metal heaviness and post-rock introspection.
Fleischmann is an alternative/thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 1999. With over two decades of activity, the band has carved out a distinctive niche between alternative and thrash metal.
Fleischwald is a grindcore band from Bolzano in South Tyrol, formed in 2022. Their German-language name and Tyrolean roots place them in the German-speaking alpine extreme music tradition, delivering short, violent bursts of grindcore aggression.
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