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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Failsafe is a thrash metal band from Gloucester, England, formed in 2017. The band delivers fast, aggressive thrash metal from the western English cathedral city.
Los Angeles' Failure were criminally overlooked during the '90s alternative rock explosion, crafting densely layered space-rock that split the difference between My Bloody Valentine's shoegaze and Tool's progressive metal. Albums 'Comfort' and 'Fantastic Planet' are now recognized as ahead-of-their-time masterpieces, with the latter's 'Stuck on You' becoming a belated hit. Their 2014 reunion after an 18-year hiatus was greeted with the reverence they deserved from the start.
Denver's Failure of Flesh emerged in 2026 with the brutal death metal scene's full arsenal at their disposal — guttural, pulverizing, and uncompromising in a city whose metal underground has been quietly expanding for years.
Location unknown but the music speaks plainly: Failure Ritual has been crafting atmospheric black metal since 2012 in the tradition of vast, desolate soundscapes that turn inward as much as they reach outward into the void.
Faint is a black metal project from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2016. They channel atmospheric black metal from the Swedish capital's vast and diverse extreme metal underground.
Faint Pulse is a depressive black metal/shoegaze band from London, formed in 2023. The band merges the raw emotion of DSBM with the dreamy textures of shoegaze.
Faint Solace is a metalcore band from Naaldwijk in the Netherlands, formed in 2023. They represent the newest generation of Dutch metalcore, bringing heavy breakdowns and melodic interplay from the Westland greenhouse region of South Holland.
Fainted is a melodic thrash metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, active since 2011. They bring melodic sensibility to thrash metal's speed and aggression from the university city north of Stockholm.
Fair Alibi is an avant-garde metal project from Balatonfured on the shores of Lake Balaton, Hungary, active since 2023. The project pushes metal into experimental territory from one of Hungary's most scenic locations.
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