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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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Fortress Black is a black metal/hardcore band from Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2012. The band merges the ferocity of black metal with the directness and energy of hardcore punk.
Fortress of Grief is a black metal project from Hamar in eastern Norway, active since 2005. Two decades of activity from the shores of Lake Mjosa — Norway's largest lake — have established them as a persistent force in the inland Norwegian black metal underground.
Fortress of the Olden Days is a black metal band from Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2018. The project evokes medieval and archaic themes through raw, atmospheric black metal.
Fortress of the Pearl is an experimental/ambient black metal and dungeon synth project from Athens, Greece, active since 2022. The project merges atmospheric black metal textures with the medieval fantasy aesthetics of dungeon synth.
Fortid is a Viking/black metal project formed in Kopavogur, Iceland in 2003, blending Norse mythology and Viking themes with aggressive black metal. The project is one of Iceland's most recognized Viking metal acts, having also operated from Oslo.
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Foryan is a melodic black metal project from Smigiel in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, formed in 2025. They bring melodic black metal to the rural western Polish lowlands, a region rarely associated with extreme metal.
Fosca Garriga is a black metal band from Felanitx, Mallorca, Spain, formed in 2025. The band creates raw black metal from the Balearic island's rural interior.
Fosch is a black metal band from Bergamo, Italy, active since 2007. Operating from the foothills of the Lombard Alps, they deliver atmospheric black metal rooted in the cold, mountainous landscape of northern Italy.
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