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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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Fashion Killers is a death/sludge metal band from Essen, Germany, formed in 2019. The band merges the brutality of death metal with the thick, low-end heaviness of sludge from the industrial Ruhr city.
Fasolath is a black metal project from Derbyshire, England, formed in 2020. The project creates atmospheric black metal from the Peak District area.
Fast Eddy is a heavy metal band from Troisdorf, Germany, formed in 2015. The band plays high-energy, no-frills heavy metal from the Cologne/Bonn metropolitan area.
Faster Pussycat formed in Los Angeles in 1985 and became one of the defining sleaze-rock bands of the Sunset Strip era. Led by Taime Downe, the band mixed glam metal flash with punky looseness, Aerosmith-style swagger, and a grimier street-level personality than many of their hair-metal peers. Their 1987 self-titled debut introduced staples such as "Bathroom Wall," "Don't Change That Song," "Cathouse," and "Babylon," songs that turned Hollywood decadence into short, rowdy hard-rock hooks. Wake Me When It's Over brought wider attention in 1989, especially through "House of Pain," while still keeping the band's rougher rock-and-roll instincts intact. Whipped! arrived as the commercial climate around glam metal was collapsing, but it showed a band willing to get stranger, heavier, and less polished. Later lineups continued under Downe's direction, bringing industrial and electro-rock touches into the sound while keeping the Faster Pussycat name tied to excess, grit, and nightclub chaos. Their catalog remains a document of Los Angeles rock at its most reckless and unvarnished.
Fasting Feast is a death/groove metal band from Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic, formed in 2014. Their debut "Dark Legion" blends corpse, death, groove, and thrash metal across four tracks exploring themes of revolution, darkness, and social alienation.
Fastness is a death metal band from Děčín, Czech Republic, formed in 2017. The band channels unrelenting death metal from the North Bohemian city on the Elbe.
Fastígio was a raw and atmospheric black metal project from Blumenau, Brazil, active from 2018 until their dissolution. The project released at least two recordings — a self-titled work and Transcendência — exploring themes of mysticism, nature, spirituality, and darkness across a blend of raw black metal and ambient soundscapes.
Fat Actress is a grindcore/death metal band from Cork, Ireland, active since 2011 and delivering rapid-fire extremity from the Rebel City. The project channels grindcore's velocity through an Irish lens.
Fat Dog are a London band whose post-punk comes with the pressure of a deranged dance floor rather than detached cool. Emerging from the city's underground live circuit, the group built a reputation before their debut album WOOF. by turning shows into frantic, sweat-heavy events where synths, drums, guitars, shouted vocals, and absurd humor all pushed toward overload. Their music draws from dance-punk, industrial pulse, klezmer-like melodic turns, and noisy rock abrasion, with Joe Love's writing often favoring repetition and escalation over conventional verse-chorus neatness. Tracks such as "King of the Slugs," "Running," "All the Same," and "I am the King" show a band interested in physical reaction first: the bass throbs, the electronics lurch, and the vocals seem to lead a procession that could fall apart at any second. Fat Dog fit the accepted punk and post-punk scope because their heaviness is rhythmic and nervous rather than metallic. The appeal is collective momentum, a sense that the song is less performed than detonated in public with gleeful menace.
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