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Frater Sinister is a black metal band from Roanne, France, active since 2007. The band — whose Latin name means "sinister brother" — has nearly two decades of black metal from the Loire department.
Frater Ximenes Is Dead is a black metal and ritual dark ambient project from the Campania/Calabria border region of southern Italy, active since 2009. Their cryptically titled releases — including Missa Brevis Sancti Rosacrucis de Iehovae and Jhator — blend atmospheric black metal with ritualistic ambient passages under an aura of esoteric mysticism.
Fratrum is a groove metal band from Ivanovo in central Russia, formed in 2025. Their Latin name — meaning 'of brothers' — signals the fraternal bond at the core of their groove metal from the textile city northeast of Moscow.
Fratura is a one-man black metal project from São Paulo, Brazil, created at the end of 2019 by the sole member known as Corposeco. The project channels raw black metal through the lens of crust punk, d-beat, and powerviolence, a hybrid the artist calls "Black-Beat," combining lo-fi sonic violence with antifascist and anarchist themes. The debut album "Corposeco" was released in August 2020 and received a remastered edition in June 2022, which included a cover of Mayhem.
Fratzengeballer is a death metal/grindcore band from Frankfurt, Germany, formed in 2019. The band's name — roughly meaning "face-blasting" — captures the intensity of their extreme output.
Fraught is a death/black metal band from Dublin, Ireland, active since 2019 and delivering dual-pronged extremity from the Irish capital. The project merges death and black metal traditions.
Fraxure is a heavy metal band from Nuneaton in the English Midlands, active since 2018 and delivering straightforward heavy metal. The project channels classic metal energy from the West Midlands.
Frayed Illusion is a melodic death metal band from Athens, Greece, emerging in 2026 as part of the newest generation of Hellenic melodeath. The project channels Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal through a Greek perspective.
Frayle formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 2017 as a duo anchored by guitarist Sean Bilovecky and vocalist Gwyn Strang, pairing heavily down-tuned doom metal riffs with ethereal, near-whispered singing to create what the band calls "lullabies of chaos." Their debut album 1692 (2020) drew broad attention in the doom underground, citing influences ranging from Sleep and Black Sabbath to Portishead and Björk, and Revolver Magazine named them a band to watch in 2023. Skin & Sorrow (2022) and Heretics & Lullabies (released via Napalm Records) further developed the band's melancholic, atmospheric doom approach.
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