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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)
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Flor de Fumo is a psychedelic stoner doom trio from Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, formed by Gabriel Lemes (guitar/vocals), Rafael Camacho (bass), and Tiago Garcia (drums). The band blends South American psychedelia with the ritualistic density of doom metal, delivering a raw, analog sound they describe as smoke-soaked and ritualistic. They released their self-titled debut EP on December 12, 2025, featuring five tracks including "Doom And High," "Smoke And Sex," and "Erva Blues."
Florbela was an antifascist black metal project from Brasília, Brazil, active in 2022 before splitting up. The project contributed the track "Bastardos" to the 2022 Black Metal Rainbows compilation, a collection of queer, trans, and antifascist underground black metal acts released in November of that year. Their inclusion on that internationally distributed compilation placed them within the global wave of politically engaged extreme metal emerging from Brazil in the early 2020s.
Florence Black are a hard-rock trio from Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, formed by musicians who had known each other since childhood and built their sound around muscular riffs, big choruses, and a working-band lack of pretension. Early EPs and singles introduced a group drawing from classic British heavy rock, alternative metal, and grunge-weighted melody, but Weight of the World gave them a fuller statement. Songs such as "Bird on a Chain," "Sun & Moon," "Zulu," and their cover of Budgie's "Breadfan" showed how naturally they connect Welsh hard-rock heritage to a modern festival sound. Bed of Nails and later material pushed the production heavier while keeping Tristan Thomas's voice and guitar at the front, supported by Jordan Evans and Perry Davies with a compact power-trio drive. Florence Black fit metal-adjacent hard rock because their music is riff-led, loud, and physical, even when the songwriting leans toward accessible rock hooks. Their strongest songs feel built from the ground up for live rooms: thick guitar tone, direct choruses, and enough grit to keep the polish from softening the impact.
Florian Liard is a melodic death metal solo project from Nantes, France, formed in 2018. The project showcases one musician's vision of melodic death metal from the Loire-Atlantique capital.
Floridian Hippies is a death metal/grindcore band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2022. Despite the sunshine-evoking name, the band delivers extreme grind and death metal from the Finnish interior.
Floscule is a black metal project from Mykolaiv, Ukraine, formed in 2024. Their botanical name — meaning a small flower — creates an unlikely contrast with the extremity of their black metal from southern Ukraine.
Flowers in Dark is a gothic metal band from Milan, Italy, established in 1996 with a dual-vocal lineup featuring Eleonora and Simone. Across releases including their self-titled demo, Here Lies the Fairy, and I Made Silence Around Me, the six-piece blends romantic-gothic atmospheres with heavy metal instrumentation.
Flowers of Gehenna is a death metal project from France, formed in 2026. Named after the biblical valley of fire, the project is among the very newest death metal entries in the French underground.
Flowing Tears is a gothic metal band from Wadgassen, Germany, whose sound evolved from atmospheric doom metal into gothic metal territory. The band has been a notable presence in the German gothic/doom scene since the late 2000s.
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