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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Fading Waves is a progressive sludge/post-metal band from Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, active since 2011. Over a decade they have developed a sophisticated approach to atmospheric heavy music, blending sludge weight with post-metal dynamics from the Don River metropolis.
San Diego's progressive metal scene has a newer entrant in Fadrait, formed in 2023 and built on the genre's love of unconventional structure, technical ambition, and music that refuses to stay in one place for long.
Faecal Putrefaction is a brutal death metal/goregrind band from Arrecife, Lanzarote, Spain, formed in 2024. The band brings extreme goregrind brutality from the Canary Islands.
Faen i Helvete is a black metal project from Norway, formed in 2016. Their name — a common Norwegian profanity translating to 'damn it to hell' — signals the raw, unfiltered aggression of their black metal from the genre's homeland.
Faergol is a depressive black metal project from Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, formed in 2024. The project channels anguish and despair through atmospheric, emotionally charged black metal.
California's Faerhaaven is among the newest names on this list, formed in 2025, and their fantasy-tinged name hints at a black metal sound drawn toward the atmospheric and the otherworldly rather than straight aggression.
Evansville, Indiana's Faerie Ring has been blending doom and stoner metal since 2018, bringing heavy, psych-laced riffs and an occult-folk sensibility to a part of the Midwest not always associated with the heavier end of the spectrum.
Fort Lauderdale's Faethom has been one of South Florida's more ambitious metal acts since 2011, fusing black metal's cold intensity with progressive structures and traditional heavy metal muscle into something distinctly their own.
Los Angeles's Faetooth occupies the intersection of doom, sludge, and post-metal — a trio of subgenres that reward patience and reward volume — building their layered, emotionally heavy sound since forming in 2019.
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