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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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Flom is a progressive death metal band from Volda on Norway's western coast, formed in 2018. Their name — Norwegian for 'flood' — suggests the overwhelming force of their progressive death metal approach, emanating from a small fjord-side town in More og Romsdal.
Flood is a stoner metal/rock band from Zlín, Czech Republic, formed in 2021. The band delivers heavy, fuzz-laden stoner grooves from eastern Moravia.
Flood in Belief is a groove metal band from Coimbra, Portugal, formed in 2025. They bring rhythmic, riff-heavy groove metal to the historic university city of central Portugal.
Flooded Grave is a black metal project from Amsterdam, formed in 2017. They channel atmospheric black metal from the Dutch capital, a city whose below-sea-level geography gives their waterlogged band name a literal resonance.
Started as stoner/sludge, pivoted to thrash and black metal territory. Played their final show at Kick Butt Coffee in July 2022.
Floods is a black metal project from Italy, formed in 2016. They channel atmospheric black metal through a distinctly Italian creative lens, contributing to the country's rapidly expanding extreme metal underground.
Floodstain is a stoner metal/rock band from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands, active since 2001. Over two decades they have delivered fuzz-laden stoner metal and rock from the South Holland coast, making them one of the Dutch stoner scene's most enduring acts.
Floor formed in Miami, Florida in 1992 and developed a distinctive two-guitar, no-bass sludge and stoner metal approach built around severely down-tuned strings and extremely loose low-end techniques — including what critics described as a "bomb note" — that gave their sound unusual sonic weight. The band released a self-titled album and the EP Madonna before disbanding in 2004, with guitarist Steve Brooks going on to co-found Torche. A reunion beginning in 2010 and a fuller reformation in 2013 produced Dove and Oblation (2014), restoring Floor's influence on the Miami doom and sludge scene and introducing the band to a new generation of listeners.
Floor Jansen is a Dutch vocalist whose solo work is inseparable from a much longer metal history with After Forever, ReVamp, and Nightwish. As a solo artist, she moved into a broader rock and pop space after renewed Dutch mainstream attention, but the scale and technique of her singing still come from symphonic metal training. Singles such as "Fire," "Storm," "Me Without You," and the album Paragon showed a more personal side of her writing, trading full-band metal density for sweeping arrangements, theatrical dynamics, and songs about grief, resilience, motherhood, and self-definition. That shift did not erase her heavier identity; it reframed it. Jansen's voice can carry operatic height, rock grit, and intimate restraint, which is why her performances often appeal across metal, musical theater, and mainstream audiences. Her solo material fits metal-adjacent scope because the artist's history and vocal language are rooted in heavy music, even when the arrangements soften. The best moments in her catalog use power carefully, letting a chorus expand because the emotional arc demands it, not simply because she can overpower the room.
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