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Austin's Fantasm brings death metal to a city better known for its eclectic rock scenes, formed in 2023. They represent a strand of Texas extreme music that's stubbornly committed to the genre's most uncompromising end.
Fantasma is a black metal band from Würzburg, Germany, formed in 2011. The band weaves spectral black metal atmospheres from the Franconian wine-country city.
Fantasma is a doom metal band from Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Their 2021 demo Drogma featured a lineup of Zumbi on vocals, Vênus on guitar and bass, Hellvuncan on keyboards, and Phantasmagoria on drums, and was recorded at Estúdio Tereré and released through Dark Abyss Records.
Portland, Oregon's Fantasmagoria has been thrashing since 2001, making them one of the Pacific Northwest's longer-running outfits in the genre. Two-plus decades in, they continue to champion the speed and aggression that drew them to metal in the first place.
Shelton, Washington's Fantastic Flying Foelschs commits fully to the absurdity of their name while playing utterly serious doom, sludge, and stoner metal. Formed in 2018, they've evolved from eclectic roots into a band with genuine heaviness at their core.
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.
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