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Actin' Up (2023)
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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Flying Skull is a heavy metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2023. The band plays classic heavy metal from the Rhineland metropolis.
Flykt is a black metal project from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2019. Their name — Swedish for 'flight' or 'escape' — signals the desperate urgency driving their black metal from the Swedish capital.
Reunited heavy metal from central Texas.
Flynotes is a progressive/post-metal/post-rock band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2011. They craft dynamic, compositionally ambitious music that moves fluidly between progressive metal complexity and post-rock atmospherics.
Flyte is a NWOBHM/heavy metal band from Leicester, England, formed in 2023. The band carries the New Wave of British Heavy Metal banner from the East Midlands city.
Flytrap is a heavy metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2014. The band delivers classic heavy metal from the Estonian capital.
Flanerie is a black metal/post-rock project from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, formed in 2013. Their French name — meaning 'strolling' or 'wandering' — suggests a contemplative, exploratory approach to merging black metal's intensity with post-rock's expansive dynamics.
Flærken is a melodic death metal band from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, formed in 2025. Named after the alien species from the Marvel universe, the band is among the newest melodic death metal acts in the Rhine-Main area.
Fléau is a black metal band from Saint-Nazaire, France, formed in 2021. The band — whose name means "scourge" — creates punishing black metal from the Loire-Atlantique port city.
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