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Forbidden Omen is a melodic death metal band from Krakow, Poland, formed in 2020. They bring Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal to southern Poland's cultural capital, blending dual-guitar harmonies with aggressive rhythmic foundations.
Forbidden Realm is a death metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2025. The band delivers death metal from the West Midlands metropolis.
Forbidden Seed is a heavy/power metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 2015 and combining heavy metal's riffing power with power metal's soaring energy. The project draws on the Hellenic tradition of epic, melodic metal.
Forbidden Shape is a death/thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2013. They deliver technically charged death/thrash from Moscow's deep and competitive extreme metal underground.
Forbidden Worship is a black metal project from Sweden, formed in 2021. They channel the dark, ritualistic side of black metal, dealing in profane devotion from the Scandinavian underground.
Forbidden Zone is a thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2023. The band delivers fast, aggressive thrash from the German capital's ever-growing extreme music scene.
ForcaContra is a heavy metal band from London, formed in 2018. The band plays classic heavy metal from the British capital.
Force 3 is a heavy metal turned hard rock band from Stockport, England, formed in 2018. The band evolved from heavy metal origins into a hard rock direction from the Greater Manchester town.
Force Fed Farm Animals (FFFA) is a death metal and grindcore band from Vienna, Austria, who describe themselves as making "stinky music about animals." Their 2025 release "Brutally Molested Lemon Cake" carries on the short, blasting goregrind tradition with an irreverent animal-rights-adjacent absurdism.
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