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Forest of Oblivion is a black metal project from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2025. They represent the latest addition to Moscow's vast and continually expanding black metal underground.
Forest of the Renounced is a depressive black metal project from Ivanovo in central Russia, formed in 2020. Their name suggests themes of exile and abandonment, channeling desolation through depressive black metal from the textile city northeast of Moscow.
Forest of Trys is a raw black metal, grindcore, and noise project from Kaunas, Lithuania, active since 2016. Their hybrid approach collapses the boundaries between black metal rawness, grindcore violence, and noise experimentation in the Lithuanian underground.
Forest Perversions is a Welsh black metal duo of H. Morgan on drums and vocals and P. Knight on strings, recorded in the darkest depths of Wales. Their 2017 self-titled album spans seven tracks of raw black metal exploring themes of depression, loathing, and desolation across 30 minutes.
Forest Silence is a dark ambient and black metal project from Szombathely, Hungary, one of the longest-running atmospheric projects in the Hungarian scene with origins dating back to 1997. The project evolved from pure dark ambient into black metal-infused ambient across nearly three decades.
Forest Stream is a black/gothic/doom metal band from Chernogolovka in the Moscow Oblast, active since 2003. Over two decades they have developed a sophisticated blend of black, gothic, and doom metal, creating atmospheric extreme music from the science-oriented city east of Moscow.
Forest Troll is an ambient black metal project from Burgas, Bulgaria, originally started by Shu, Iksrog, and Abaddon before being renewed in 2007 by Iksrog and Naazakh. Their releases — the "Land of Agony" demo (2007), "Forgotten Tales" (2013), and "Hex" (2015) — craft atmospheric soundscapes described as evoking the icy heart at the center of deep woods.
Forest Whispers is a black metal project from Blonie near Warsaw, formed in 2014. Their nature-oriented name suggests atmospheric, forest-themed black metal drawn from the wooded lowlands of central Poland.
Forestdome is a black metal band from Santander, Spain, formed in 2012. The band creates atmospheric black metal from the mountainous coast of Cantabria.
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