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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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AMENRA "Day Is Done" by Nick Drake (2021)
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Forhekset allé is a post-industrial/black metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2014. The band merges the mechanized textures of post-industrial music with black metal aggression.
Forhgott is a black metal project from Murom in the Vladimir Oblast, formed in 2016. They channel black metal from the ancient city on the Oka River, one of Russia's oldest settlements and the legendary birthplace of the folk hero Ilya Muromets.
Forkador is a black metal project from Bialystok in northeastern Poland, formed in 2021. They channel black metal from the Podlasie region near the Belarusian border, one of Poland's most forested and culturally distinct areas.
Forked Tongues is a black metal project from Wroclaw, Poland, formed in 2025. Their name — evoking deception and serpentine menace — signals the hostile, duplicitous atmosphere of their black metal from Lower Silesia's capital.
Forlatt is an atmospheric post-black metal band from Chemnitz, Germany, formed in 2015. The band weaves post-rock expansiveness and atmospheric textures into a black metal framework from the Saxon city.
Forlet Sires is an atmospheric black/doom metal band from Winterthur, Switzerland, formed in 2014. Their discography includes "Demo I," "Journey Towards Ruin," and "Holy," exploring the intersection of atmospheric black metal's vastness with doom metal's crushing weight.
Forlor is a black metal band from Vilppula, Finland, formed in 2014. The band channels raw black metal from the small central Finnish town.
Forlorat is a melodic death/black metal project from Pavlovo in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, formed in 2024. They blend melodic death metal with black metal elements from the small Volga-region city known historically for its metalworking tradition.
Forlorn Ashes is a depressive/post-black metal project from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2019. They merge the anguished introspection of depressive black metal with post-black metal's atmospheric sweep from the Russian capital.
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