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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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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.
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.
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