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A recent arrival from Salt Lake City, Fabler has been crafting heavy, earth-bound doom and stoner metal since 2023 — slow riffs steeped in desert haze that reward patient listeners.
Folsom, California's Fables have been pushing experimental black metal into strange new territory since 2004, bending the genre's frozen aggression toward unconventional structures and unsettling atmospheres.
Fabric of Being is a depressive black metal project from the United Kingdom, formed in 2024. The project channels anguish and existential dread through DSBM.
Berkeley's Fabricant have spent over a decade building a reputation in the Bay Area death metal underground, delivering technically dense, punishing music that owes nothing to accessibility.
Fabula Rasa is a power/folk metal band from Düsseldorf, Germany, formed in 2020. The band weaves folk instruments and storytelling into an energetic power metal framework.
Fabulae Dramatis is a progressive and avant-garde metal act from Antwerp, Belgium, describing their sound as heavy world music that transcends traditional genre boundaries. Their catalog includes releases such as "Violenta," "Lead Astray / Indigo," and "Solar Time's Fables," each built on passages full of heaviness, intensity, and dramatism.
Facas is a two-piece sludge metal band from Curitiba, Brazil, consisting of Jow (Jonathan Rissi) on guitar and vocals and Michael Wilseque on drums. Their 2020 self-titled album was recorded almost entirely live during two sessions at Estúdio Sabine in Curitiba, capturing seven tracks of hypnotic, hook-driven sludge and was released through Crocodilo Discos.
Face is a progressive thrash/heavy metal band from Opole, Poland, formed in 2022. They blend the technical complexity of progressive metal with thrash aggression from the Silesian city on the Oder River.
Face Down is a southern/groove metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2010. The band blends southern metal's swagger with groove metal's rhythmic heaviness from the French capital.
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