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Fading Bliss is a gothic doom/death metal band from Saint-Nicolas near Liège, Belgium, active since 2009. They released their debut full-length "From Illusion to Despair" in 2013 through Danish label Mighty Music, followed by their second album "Journeys in Solitude" in 2018 via Malpermesita Records after a period of lineup changes.
Fading Echoes is a progressive metal band from Volos, Greece, active since 2022 and crafting technically ambitious compositions from the Thessalian coast. The project blends progressive song structures with heavy metal weight.
Out of Morgantown, West Virginia, Fading Embers arrived in 2023 with the slow, mountainous heaviness that doom metal demands — a young band in a state whose industrial rust and Appalachian weight seem tailor-made for the genre.
Fading Life is a depressive black metal project from Sweden, formed in 2024. They channel the bleakness and emotional desolation of depressive black metal from the Scandinavian heartland of the genre.
Fading Path is a black metal project from Tiraspol in Transnistria, Moldova, formed in 2025. They channel black metal from one of Europe's most geopolitically unusual territories — an unrecognized breakaway state between Moldova and Ukraine.
Fading Roses is a raw black metal/dark ambient/noise project from France, formed in 2022. The project blends the rawness of black metal with dark ambient and noise elements.
Fading Spirit is an atmospheric black metal project from the United Kingdom, formed in 2017. The project creates expansive, ethereal atmospheric black metal.
Fading Sun is a funeral doom/death metal band from Minsk, Belarus, formed in 2010. Their single extended track "Yawning Void" — clocking in at over 18 minutes — exemplifies their approach to slow, crushing, atmospheric death doom.
Fading Trail is a death metal/grindcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019. The band delivers grinding death metal from the Finnish capital.
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