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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Fair Fight is a heavy metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2021 and delivering classic heavy metal from the Greek capital. The project draws on the Hellenic tradition of melodic, riff-driven heavy metal.
Ann Arbor's Fair Game started as a hard rock and heavy metal act before evolving toward psychedelic doom metal — a trajectory that reflects both the band's growth since 2018 and the fertile experimental energy of that Michigan college town.
Fair of the Forgotten is a black metal project from Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2023. The project summons dark, forgotten atmospheres through the lens of Bavarian black metal.
Adventurous progressive metal from Dallas with folk-tinged storytelling.
Fair Warning is a heavy metal and hard rock act formed in 2014, drawing from the classic blueprint of big riffs and melodic hooks while keeping one foot in the raw energy that made the genre essential in the first place.
Fairchild is a heavy metal band from Eksjo in the Smaland region of Sweden, formed in 2020. They deliver classic heavy metal from the forested interior of southern Sweden.
Fairlight is a melodic death metal band from Apt, France, formed in 2011. The band delivers melodic death metal from the Luberon area of Provence.
Fairness is a heavy metal/hard rock band from Saffle in the Varmland region of western Sweden, formed in 2014. They channel riff-driven heavy metal and hard rock from the Swedish borderlands near Norway.
Fairy Duster is a doom/post-metal band from Fürth, Germany, formed in 2014. After releasing the impressive "KARASëA" EP in 2014 and then going quiet for years, they returned heavier than before with their 2025 debut album "Far from Light and Time," featuring artwork by renowned painter Mariusz Lewandowski.
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