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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Forlorn Hope is a progressive metal band from Groß Umstadt, Germany, formed in 2018. The band explores complex progressive metal compositions from the Hessian Odenwald region.
Forlorn Remembrance is a progressive metal band from Lund in southern Sweden, active since 2010. They bring compositional ambition to the university city in the Skane region.
Forlorn World is a melodic death metal project from Manchester founded by Josh McMorran of Bloodshot Dawn, weaving epic narrative plots together with technical melodic death metal. Their 2020 concept album Umbra features guest solos from multiple musicians and was mastered by Jacob Hansen in a limited pressing of 400 copies.
Forlorn Yearning is a black metal project from Finland, formed in 2021. The project creates melancholic, yearning black metal.
Forlornness is a depressive black metal project from Turkey, formed in 2015. They channel the emotional desolation and anguished introspection of depressive black metal from the Turkish underground.
Form is an experimental black metal project from Tartu, Estonia, formed in 2018. The project pushes black metal into experimental, boundary-defying territory from Estonia's intellectual center.
Form of Existence is a technical deathcore band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2023. The band combines the precision of technical musicianship with the brutality of deathcore, representing a newer wave of extreme music from the Bulgarian capital.
Formaldehyde is a death metal band from Almada on the south bank of the Tagus opposite Lisbon, formed in 2020 after earlier work in death/thrash metal. Their chemical-preservation name matches the clinical aggression of their death metal from greater Lisbon.
Formaline is a brutal death metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2016. Named after the chemical preservative, they deliver clinical, precise brutal death metal from Moscow's deep extreme metal underground.
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