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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fearadox is a technical sludge metal band from Malmo, Sweden, formed in 2025. They bring technical precision to sludge metal's heaviness from Sweden's third-largest city at the southern tip of the country.
Fearbringer is a black metal project from Parma, Italy, active since 2008. Their work channels the cold aggression and atmospheric menace characteristic of the European black metal underground.
Feared is a death/groove/thrash metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2023. They deliver a versatile blend of death, groove, and thrash metal from the Swedish capital's endlessly productive metal scene.
San Antonio crossover thrash/punk. Wild, funny, and ferocious.
Fearlight is a pagan/folk metal band from Saint Petersburg, having evolved from earlier doom/gothic metal origins since 2019. Their stylistic transformation traces a journey from dark, slow heaviness to the folk-infused paganism of their current incarnation.
Fearmonger is a grindcore/death metal/hardcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2021. The band combines the extremity of grind and death metal with hardcore's energy.
FearOfHatred is a gothic/industrial death metal band from Lincoln, England, formed in 2016. The band fuses gothic atmospheres and industrial textures with death metal heaviness from the Lincolnshire cathedral city.
Fearpleasure is a death metal band from Balingen, Germany, formed in 2023. The band channels old-school death metal from the Swabian Alb region of Baden-Württemberg.
Fearrage is a thrash/groove metal band from Soini, Finland, formed in 2018. The band delivers aggressive thrash and groove metal from the rural South Ostrobothnia municipality.
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