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Fornicator is a death metal band from Landeck, Tyrol, formed in 2009 out of the earlier project Burning Corpse (2007–2009). Working in socially critical lyrical territory covering life, death, and misery, the band released a self-titled full-length and has remained active in the underground Austrian death metal scene.
Fornicatus is a depressive black metal project from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2014. The project channels despair and emotional extremity through DSBM.
Fornjotr is a black metal turned brutal death metal band from Kempele, Finland, formed in 2018. Named after the primordial giant of Norse mythology, the band evolved from black metal origins into heavier brutal death territory.
Fornoth is a blackened death metal band from Dublin, Ireland, active since 2019 and fusing black metal's darkness with death metal's brutality. The project operates within Dublin's expanding extreme metal community.
Forod Lad is a folk/power metal band from Vicenza, Italy, formed in 2017. They fuse the melodic grandeur of power metal with folk elements, drawing on both the Veneto region's cultural heritage and the broader European folk metal tradition.
Forodwaith is a melodic death/folk metal band from Vitebsk in the northern lands of Belarus. Their 2017 debut album "The One" blends heavy instrumentation with folk elements and thematic content drawn from Norse mythology, delivered across nine tracks of melodic death metal with folk metal ornamentation.
Forsake is a heavy/thrash metal band from Nice, France, formed in 2019. The band blends heavy metal hooks with thrash metal aggression from the Côte d'Azur.
Forsaken Art is a project from Coruche, Portugal, formed in 2023, evolving from black metal origins into dark ambient territory. Their shift from conventional extreme metal to atmospheric soundscapes reflects an increasingly experimental approach to darkness and desolation.
Forsaken Dreams is a melodic death metal band from Serres, Greece, incorporating doom metal influences into their sound since 2017. The project blends melody and heaviness from the northern Greek region of Central Macedonia.
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