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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Fade Dreams is an atmospheric black metal project from Ukraine, formed in 2024. They channel atmospheric black metal from the Ukrainian underground, creating contemplative extreme music amid the realities of wartime.
Stanley, North Dakota's Fade into Obscurity formed in 2024, bringing raw black metal from one of the most remote corners of the American underground — isolation rendered in frost and tremolo.
Fade to Black is a symphonic/gothic metal band from Ohrid, North Macedonia, formed in 1990 — making them one of the oldest metal acts in the Balkans. Reuniting in 2009 after disbanding in 1991, they have since released additional albums including Black Is Back and Land of Plenty, anchored by the dramatic backdrop of their lakeside UNESCO heritage city.
Columbus, Ohio's Fade to Oblivion have been writing melodic death metal since 2013, threading European melodeath influences through a Midwestern sensibility that grounds the grandiosity in something heavier.
Fadead is a thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2021. The band delivers high-energy thrash metal from the German capital.
Faded Colors is a raw black metal project from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2023. They strip black metal to its rawest essentials, delivering lo-fi hostility from the Russian capital.
Faded Echoes is a melodic death metal band from Bordeaux, France, formed in 2021. The band crafts melodic death metal from the Gironde wine capital.
A Rhode Island black metal outfit active since 2009, Faded Grave channels the raw, stripped-down misanthropy of the American underground with a sound more obsessed with atmosphere and dread than technical display.
Faded Line is a thrash metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 2012 and delivering aggressive thrash from Greece's second city. The project channels the energy of Thessaloniki's vibrant metal scene.
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