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Forgotten Silence is an avant-garde and progressive death metal band from Rosice, Czech Republic, active since 1993 and boasting true cult status among fans and critics alike. Their vast discography — spanning releases like "Senyaan," "Kro Ni Ka," "La Grande Bouffe," and "Thots" — overlaps into metal, rock, ambient, and jazz, making them one of the most genre-defying acts in Czech metal history.
Forgotten Souls is a gothic/doom/death metal band from Krakow, Poland, formed in 2020. They merge three of metal's darkest and most emotionally heavy subgenres from the atmospheric medieval streets of Poland's former royal capital.
Forgotten Spell is a black metal band from Sondershausen, Germany, formed in 2022. The band creates dark, ritualistic black metal from the Thuringian town.
Forgotten Spirit is a black/folk metal band from Sumy in northeastern Ukraine, active since 1997. Nearly three decades of folk-tinged black metal make them one of the most enduring extreme metal acts in the Ukrainian underground.
Forgotten Sunrise is a band from Tallinn, Estonia, active since 2000, who evolved from atmospheric doom/death metal into electronic and industrial territory. Their stylistic evolution reflects a restless creative vision spanning over two decades.
Forgotten Suns is a progressive rock/metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, active since 2000. Over two-and-a-half decades they have developed a sophisticated approach to progressive metal, establishing themselves as one of Portugal's most enduring prog acts.
Forgotten Tales Brotherhood is a symphonic folk metal band from Brittany, France, formed in 2019. The band weaves Celtic Breton folk traditions into symphonic metal from France's most Celtic-influenced region.
Forgotten Tears is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2011. They channel the emotional intensity of melodic death metal through a metalcore framework, operating from one of Italy's most active heavy music cities.
Forgotten Thought is a funeral doom/depressive black metal project from Rome, Italy, formed in 2012. Their output dwells in the slowest, bleakest extremes of heavy music, merging the glacial pace of funeral doom with the anguished introspection of depressive black metal.
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