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Forgotten Art is a black metal band from Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic, formed in 2010. The band crafts their dark art from the wooded highlands of the Vysočina region.
Forgotten Blades is a heavy metal band from Dublin, Ireland, active since 2023 and delivering classic heavy metal from the Irish capital. The project revives the spirit of traditional metal in Dublin.
Forgotten Daylight is a melodic death/doom metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2007. They blend the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian death metal with doom's crushing weight, creating melancholic, atmospheric extreme metal from the Russian capital.
Forgotten Fears is a black metal project from France, formed in 2011. The project channels anxiety and dread through atmospheric black metal.
Forgotten Forest is a black/thrash metal band from Ibbenbüren, Germany, formed in 2025. The band fuses the rawness of black metal with thrash metal velocity.
Forgotten Forests is a death/doom metal band from Sandanski, Bulgaria, formed in 2009, self-described as an epic death doom metal act. Their discography includes "Fighting in the Age of Mist," "Kingdom of Death," "Spirits of the Ash," and "Rebirth Beyond," released through Acclaim Records.
Forgotten Hope is a death/gothic metal band from the Pollino mountain region of Cosenza in Calabria, formed in 2012. Their debut Third Eye Fragments features ten tracks of melodic black-tinged death metal with gothic overtones, rooted in the remote landscapes of southern Italy's Calabrian interior.
Forgotten King is a psychedelic stoner/doom metal band from Stavanger, Norway, formed in 2023. They channel the hazy, riff-heavy spirit of psychedelic stoner doom from Norway's oil capital on the southwestern coast.
Forgotten Kingdom is a power metal band from Vansbro in the Dalarna region, formed in 2013. They bring the melodic grandeur of power metal to the rural Swedish heartland.
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