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Foreboder is a doom/sludge metal and hardcore band from Selby, England, formed in 2018. The band merges doom and sludge metal's crushing weight with hardcore's aggression from the North Yorkshire town.
Foreboding Ether is a progressive death metal/deathcore band from Margate, England, formed in 2010. The band combines progressive complexity with death metal and deathcore from the Kent seaside town.
Forecast is a black/death metal band from Malbork, Poland, formed in 2016. They deliver extreme metal from the city dominated by the massive Teutonic Knights castle — the largest brick structure in the world — lending their music an inherently monumental backdrop.
Foredoomed is a melodic death metal band from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2017. The band crafts emotionally charged melodic death metal from the North Karelian capital.
Forefather is a black/viking metal band from Leatherhead, England, active since 1999. With over a quarter century of activity, the band has been crafting Anglo-Saxon-themed black and viking metal from the Surrey town.
Forefathers Blood is a symphonic black metal band from Brandenburg, Germany. The band layers orchestral arrangements over aggressive black metal from the northeastern German state.
Foreign Legion was a black/speed/heavy metal band from Bad Hofgastein, Salzburg, active from 1988 to 1991. A short-lived act from the late-1980s Austrian metal underground, the band worked in the fast, riff-driven crossover territory between traditional heavy metal and early black and speed metal.
Forensic Clinic was a progressive death metal band from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, active from 2007 to 2016. Founded by guitarist Goran Džidić, drummer Petar Parlov, and bassist Zoran Pervan, the band released the self-produced EP "Robe of Immortality" (2010) and the album "Lovelorn" (2014), playing venues across Bosnia and the Dalmatian coast.
Forensick is a heavy metal band from Horb am Neckar, Germany, formed in 2011. The band delivers classic heavy metal from the Black Forest region of Baden-Württemberg.
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