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Fallen Saint is a thrash metal band from the Vestfold og Telemark region of Norway, formed in 2020. They deliver aggressive, fast-paced thrash metal from southeastern Norway's coastal and mountainous terrain.
Fallen Saints is a death metal band from Sevelten, Germany, formed in 2020. The band produces heavy, uncompromising death metal from the Lower Saxony countryside.
Fallen Sentinel is a death metal turned gothic metal band from Vigo, Spain, formed in 2016. The band evolved from death metal roots into gothic metal territory from the Galician Atlantic city.
Harbor Beach, Michigan's Fallen Seraph bring death/thrash ferocity from one of the state's most remote reaches, formed in 2024. Playing extreme metal in a small Lake Huron shoreline community takes a certain commitment — their sound carries the isolated, driven energy that kind of geography tends to produce.
Detroit's Fallen Short combine black metal's bleak atmosphere with sludge metal's grinding low-end punishment, emerging in 2025 from a city whose industrial decay has long fed some of America's most unsparing heavy music. The black/sludge hybrid suits the Motor City's particular brand of grim beauty.
Los Angeles black/death act Fallen Soul have been operating in the city's sprawling underground since 2017, where the sheer size of the scene lets extreme metal acts pursue uncompromising sounds without chasing commercial viability. Their dual-genre identity brings both frost and brutality to a city not typically associated with either.
Dallas groove metal crew Fallen South have been a fixture in the North Texas scene since 2012, delivering the heavy mid-tempo stomp that makes groove metal ideal for loud rooms and unforgiving PA systems. Their name nods to their Southern roots while the music delivers all the head-down, locked-in weight the region demands.
Fallen Spell is a Brazilian raw atmospheric black metal project, formed in 2015, that explores the unconscious mind and dreamlike states through a blend of abrasive noise and melancholic passages. The project released the full-length Retorno às Sombras in 2025, an eight-track album running approximately 38 minutes, alongside earlier recordings including Ausência Suspensa and the Cold Room demo.
Los Angeles stoner metal act Fallen Suns have been letting their riffs breathe since 2016, drawing on Southern California's long tradition of fuzz-soaked heavy rock and desert-influenced slowburn. Their music moves at the pace of heat — unhurried, thick, and designed to expand in open space.
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