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Forked Tongues is a black metal project from Wroclaw, Poland, formed in 2025. Their name — evoking deception and serpentine menace — signals the hostile, duplicitous atmosphere of their black metal from Lower Silesia's capital.
Forkill is a thrash metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2010, drawing influence from Exodus, Testament, Sepultura, and Slayer. The band released their debut album Breathing Hate in 2013, produced by Robertinho do Recife, and followed it with the album Sick Society, recorded at Tellus Studio with producer Daniel Escobar.
Forklift Circumcision is a one-man slam/brutal death metal and goregrind project from Manchester, created and performed entirely by Jack Hodgkinson since 2024. The project delivers certified slamming brutal deathgrind through prolific releases including split albums with acts like Komodonesia and Fupa Goddess.
Forlatt is an atmospheric post-black metal band from Chemnitz, Germany, formed in 2015. The band weaves post-rock expansiveness and atmospheric textures into a black metal framework from the Saxon city.
Forlet Sires is an atmospheric black/doom metal band from Winterthur, Switzerland, formed in 2014. Their discography includes "Demo I," "Journey Towards Ruin," and "Holy," exploring the intersection of atmospheric black metal's vastness with doom metal's crushing weight.
Forlor is a black metal band from Vilppula, Finland, formed in 2014. The band channels raw black metal from the small central Finnish town.
Forlorat is a melodic death/black metal project from Pavlovo in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, formed in 2024. They blend melodic death metal with black metal elements from the small Volga-region city known historically for its metalworking tradition.
Forlorn was a Norwegian melodic black and viking metal band from Stavanger formed in 1992, releasing their debut EP in 1996 before signing to Head Not Found Records. Their full-length debut The Crystal Palace (1997), recorded at Mansion Studio in Stavanger, combined the atmospheric and melodic currents of Norwegian black metal with acoustic guitar passages, keyboard textures, and choral-style vocals, setting them apart from the more aggressive norms of the scene. The band also released Opus III — Ad Caelestis Res and Hybernation before ceasing activity in 2004, remaining an underappreciated footnote in the mid-1990s Norwegian melodic black metal canon.
Forlorn Ashes is a depressive/post-black metal project from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2019. They merge the anguished introspection of depressive black metal with post-black metal's atmospheric sweep from the Russian capital.
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