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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Fantazm is a heavy metal band from Voronezh in southern Russia, formed in 2014. They deliver classic heavy metal from one of Russia's largest cities in the Central Black Earth region.
Fantazzion is a power metal band from Wroclaw, Poland, formed in 2016. They deliver the melodic grandeur and soaring vocals characteristic of European power metal from Lower Silesia's historic capital.
Fanteria di Prima Linea is a thrash metal and crossover hardcore band from Udine in northeastern Italy, formed in 2019. Their releases Aggressione and Proctology deliver aggressive, politically charged thrash in the Italian language, rooted in the crossover punk tradition.
Fanthur is a black metal project from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2025. They represent the newest wave of Polish black metal emerging from the capital, contributing to Warsaw's expanding extreme metal underground.
Fantoft is a melodic black metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2017. Named after the historic Fantoft stave church in Norway, the band channels Scandinavian melodic black metal tradition through a Saxon lens.
Rochester's Fantom deals in traditional heavy metal with a shadowy theatricality that suits the band's name. Since 2017 they've been part of upstate New York's small but committed metal underground.
Fantom Blood is a sludge/doom metal project from Kozani, Greece, emerging in 2025 with heavy, crushing doom from the mountainous region of Western Macedonia. The project delivers punishing sludge and doom from one of Greece's most remote metal scenes.
San Luis Obispo's Fantom Fire brings heavy metal energy to California's Central Coast, a region not typically associated with the genre. Formed in 2022, they're one of those welcome surprises found in unexpected ZIP codes.
Union, New Jersey's Fantom Warior has been a thrash fixture since 2015, their intentional misspelling a nod to the genre's proudly anti-establishment spirit. Their sound is fast, guitar-forward, and built on the kind of riffs that demand a response.
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