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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.
Fanttasma is a post-black and doom metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2013. Their debut album Another Sleepless Night (2013) featured vocals by Thiago Andrade, drums by Rafael Galbes, and guitars and bass by Rafael Augusto Lopes. The band later shifted toward a more atmospheric rock sound, releasing the album Sailing in 2020.
Seattle's Fantôme Maléfique — French for 'malefic phantom' — arrived in 2023 with a name steeped in occult romanticism and black metal to match. The city's grey skies and damp atmosphere provide an appropriate backdrop for this kind of atmospheric darkness.
Faquin is a black metal band from Lille, France, formed in 2019. The band channels raw black metal from the northern French metropolis near the Belgian border.
Far Behind the Flame is a death metal/ambient project from Aix-en-Provence, France, formed in 2022. The project blends death metal aggression with ambient textures from the Provençal university city.
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