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Chicago's Fail to Enlighten formed in 2025 at the crossroads of black metal and hardcore — two worlds that collide in a specific kind of urban rage, and Chicago's long history of hardcore makes for fertile ground for that collision.
Failan is an atmospheric/depressive black metal project from Krasnoyarsk in central Siberia, formed in 2020. They channel the vast, frozen desolation of the Siberian landscape into anguished, atmospheric black metal from one of Russia's most isolated major cities.
Detroit's Failed takes the city's legacy of industrial grime and blue-collar despair and channels it into sludge metal, a genre that fits the Motor City like a work-worn glove; the band has been grinding since 2019.
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.
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