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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Fact is a heavy metal band from Sande/Wilhelmshaven, Germany, formed in 2020. The band delivers classic heavy metal from the North Sea coast of Lower Saxony.
Out of Mathews, Louisiana, Factor 8 blend groove metal's driving rhythms with the thick, swampy heaviness of sludge metal — a combination that wears the bayou in every note since 2018.
Factor Kill is a thrash metal band from Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed around 2009–2010, operating independently on the underground scene. Self-described as "fast, violent, drunk and dirty," the band channels classic thrash aggression with lyrical themes centered on violence, chaos, war, society, and metal culture. They release their material independently through Bandcamp.
Factoria is an industrial/melodic death metal band from Kranj, Slovenia, active since 2004. They blend industrial textures with melodic death metal from the Slovenian alpine city, creating a mechanized, precision-driven form of extreme metal.
Factory is a thrash/heavy metal band from Turin, Italy, active since 2018 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven metal from the Piedmont capital. The project channels the industrial heritage of Turin into thrash metal.
Factory of Art is a progressive heavy/power metal band from Leipzig, Germany, active since 1990 and now in their fourth decade. They describe their sound as "artfully arranged, timeless rhythms forming an extraordinary symbiosis of progressive, power, and classic metal," with releases including "Story of Pain" and "Back to Life."
Orange Park, Florida's Factory of Ghouls have been running the death metal and grindcore underground since 1998, one of the region's longest-tenured acts in extreme metal's most relentless corners.
Factura is a thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2011. They bring classic thrash metal aggression to Moscow's deep and competitive metal underground.
Fade Away is a doom metal project from Lamia, Greece, emerging in 2026 with heavy, slow-paced compositions from central Greece. The project represents the expanding reach of Greek doom metal beyond Athens and Thessaloniki.
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