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Eschatology of War (2021)
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Big Ship Little Ship / Bassline Junkie (2020)
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No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
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Forfall is a black metal/punk project from Sweden, formed in 2017. Their name — Swedish for 'decay' — and their blending of black metal with punk aggression create a raw, stripped-down form of extreme music.
Forfallet is a post-black metal project from Stockholm, formed in 2020. Their name — Swedish for 'the decay' or 'the ruin' — signals the atmospheric desolation running through their post-black metal from the Swedish capital.
Förgjord is a black metal band from Pieksämäki, Finland, formed in 2012. The band creates raw, atmospheric black metal from the eastern Finnish town in the lake district.
Forlust is a black metal project from Sweden, formed in 2018. Their name — Swedish for 'loss' — captures the bleak, emotionally stark character of their black metal.
Fornimmelse is a black/death metal project from the Halland region of western Sweden, formed in 2016. Their name — Swedish for 'sensation' or 'perception' — hints at a sensory approach to merging black and death metal traditions.
Förstörelse is a raw black metal project from Grodno, Belarus, formed in 2024. The project's name — Swedish for "destruction" — signals their aesthetic allegiance to the Scandinavian black metal tradition, filtered through the Belarusian underground.
Fobya is a progressive black metal project from Bielsko-Biala in southern Poland, formed in 2023. They push black metal into progressive territory from the Beskid Mountains foothills, adding compositional complexity to the genre's raw foundation.
Furio is a heavy/speed/black metal project from Portugal, formed in 2025. They blend the classic energy of heavy and speed metal with black metal's darker edge, representing the newest wave of Portuguese extreme metal.
Faege is a depressive black metal project from Utrecht in the Netherlands, formed in 2025. Their Old English-derived name — meaning 'fated to die' — sets the tone for anguished, introspective depressive black metal from the ancient Dutch cathedral city.
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