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For the Storms is a doom/death/sludge band from Brescia, Italy, formed in 2021. Their releases The Grieving Path and Losing What's Left of Us chart a heavy, emotionally charged path through doom, death, sludge, and post-metal territories, with song titles mapping landscapes of loss and desolation.
For Your Sins is a death/thrash/groove metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2013. The band blends death, thrash, and groove metal from Scotland's largest city.
Forakt is a black metal project from Risor on Norway's southern coast, formed in 2020. Their name — Norwegian for 'contempt' — captures the misanthropic essence of their black metal from the picturesque but isolated Agder coastline.
Foramen Magnvm is a death metal band from Puerto Montt, Chile, operating within the death thrash tradition and active since 2013. The band released a split in 2018 alongside other Chilean death metal acts, and their early material, including the track "Silent Shadows," positions them within the underground extreme metal scene of southern Chile.
Foranguish is a depressive black metal (DSBM) project from Ceará, Brazil, formed in 2024. The band's debut album The Pain of Isolation, released on January 23, 2024, is a seven-track, 42-minute record featuring raw, somber riffs and screamed vocals typical of the DSBM style, with keyboards adding atmospheric texture on the final tracks. The album received attention from underground DSBM communities and is available on both Bandcamp and Spotify.
Foraoisi gan Iniuchadh is a depressive black metal project from Wexford, Ireland, active since 2021, whose Irish-language name translates to 'forests without exploration.' The project channels the untamed Irish countryside into raw DSBM.
Foray Between Ocean is a progressive death metal and deathcore band from Athens, Greece, active since 2016 and merging progressive song structures with extreme metal heaviness. The project pushes the boundaries of Athenian extreme metal.
Forbannet is a black metal project from Elblag in the Warmia-Masuria region, formed in 2022. Their name — Norwegian for 'cursed' — bridges Polish and Scandinavian black metal traditions from the historic Hanseatic port on the Vistula Lagoon.
Forbidden City is a doom/death metal band from Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, formed in 2023. They deliver crushing doom/death from a city deeply affected by the ongoing conflict in the Donbas region.
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