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Forced Departure is a Venezuelan technical death metal band formed in 2016 by Andrés Campos, Adolfredo Malavé, and vocalist Orlando Guevara. Their self-titled debut album (2022) showcases complex riffing, intricate solos, and blast-beat-driven intensity across eight tracks, earning the band recognition within the international technical death metal community. Though the members are based in Madrid, the band proudly identifies as Venezuelan in origin.
Forced Elimination is a death/doom metal band from Santander, Spain, formed in 2020. The band merges death metal brutality with doom metal's crushing pace from the Cantabrian coast.
Forced Entry is a melodic speed/power metal band from Bonn, Germany, formed in 2015. The band blends the velocity of speed metal with the melodic hooks of power metal from the former West German capital.
Forced Evolution was a progressive death metal band based in Belgium and Enschede, Netherlands, active from 2009 until their breakup in 2011. They released their debut full-length "Sealed" in 2009, blending progressive structures with melodic death metal, but persistent difficulties finding a permanent vocalist prevented them from touring and ultimately led to their dissolution.
Forced Kill is a thrash metal band from Jyväskylä, Finland, active since 2009. The band has spent over 15 years delivering unrelenting thrash metal from central Finland.
Forced Shadow is a melodic death metal band from Schaffhausen, Switzerland, formed in 2025. As one of the newest melodic death metal acts in the Swiss scene, the project blends aggression with melody.
Forced to Decay was a death metal/grindcore band from Solingen, Germany, active from 1994 until 2001. Over their nine-year run, they played more than 350 shows and released three CDs/LPs alongside several other recordings, with members going on to form The Other and Kontrolle after the band's dissolution.
Forcedown was a groove metal and metalcore band formed in 2002, with members split between Gmünd, Lower Austria and Ceske Velenice, Czech Republic. Drawing on Swedish melodic metal and hardcore influences, they released the eight-track album "The Immortality of Words" before disbanding.
Forcefed Horsehead is a death metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2011. Their provocatively absurd name belies the serious extremity of their death metal, contributing to Oslo's deep pool of underground death metal talent.
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