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Fohatt is an atmospheric doom metal band from Curitiba, Brazil, whose sound combines heavy and acoustic guitars with dark atmospheric keyboards and melancholic variations. The band released the EP Ancient Ritual of the Season in June 2023, followed by their debut full-length Reflections of Emptiness in July 2024, the latter promoted internationally through MS Metal Agency Brasil. They also contributed a track to a Saturnus tribute album, signaling their engagement with the broader international doom metal community.
Foible Instinct is a death metal/grindcore band from Kyiv, Ukraine, active since 2008. Nearly two decades of extreme metal from the Ukrainian capital have established them as a veteran act in the country's underground.
Foillis is a black/doom metal band from Bonne, France, formed in 2024. The band merges black metal darkness with doom metal weight from the Haute-Savoie department.
Foken Rotten Noise is an old school grindcore and death metal band from Santiago, Chile, with members drawn from various corners of the Chilean underground metal scene. The band released "Wastedlands" in 2013 through Thanatology Productions in a limited run of 500 CDs, followed by "The Finest Shit" in 2015, both albums channeling raw, anarchic energy with lyrical themes of anti-politics, anti-greed, and personal freedom.
Fokker is a black metal band from Kiel, Germany, formed in 2016. The band channels raw black metal from the Schleswig-Holstein state capital on the Baltic coast.
Folge dem Wind is a pagan black metal band from Montgeron, France, formed in 2014. The band's German name — meaning "follow the wind" — signals their pagan black metal aesthetic from the southern Paris suburbs.
Folhas de Outono is a Christian progressive metal band from Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2014. The band features guitarists Rafael Cabral and Herbert Silveira alongside vocalist Jefferson Sullivan, bassist Daniel Monteiro, drummer Ton Oliveira, and keyboardist Samuel W. Costa. Their debut album O tempo que me foi dado..., released in October 2014, is a twelve-track record whose lyrical themes draw from Christian scripture and personal faith.
Folie a Deux is a death metal band from Sundsvall on the northern Swedish coast, formed in 2016. Named after the psychiatric phenomenon of shared psychosis, they deliver death metal from the Norrland coastline.
Folk Metal Jacket is a folk metal band from Modena, Italy, formed in 2012. Across releases including Our War Has Begun, Spill This Album, and Eulogy For The Gentle Fools, they blend traditional folk instrumentation and melodies with heavy metal aggression, their playful name riffing on Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket.
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