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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Nihility (2002)
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Inhale The Noise (2026)
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Faceofanother is a crust punk and black metal act from Athens, Greece, active since 2012 and fusing the raw energy of crust punk with black metal's darkness. The project bridges the punk and metal undergrounds of the Greek capital.
Fackelträger is a black metal project from Germany, active since 2010. The project's name — German for "torchbearer" — evokes the ritualistic, fire-lit imagery central to their black metal vision.
Fade Dreams is an atmospheric black metal project from Ukraine, formed in 2024. They channel atmospheric black metal from the Ukrainian underground, creating contemplative extreme music amid the realities of wartime.
Faded Colors is a raw black metal project from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2023. They strip black metal to its rawest essentials, delivering lo-fi hostility from the Russian capital.
Fadheit is a depressive black metal project from Lodz, Poland, formed in 2018. Their German-derived name — meaning 'insipidness' or 'staleness' — captures the bleak, emotionally drained character of their depressive black metal from Poland's third-largest city.
Fading Life is a depressive black metal project from Sweden, formed in 2024. They channel the bleakness and emotional desolation of depressive black metal from the Scandinavian heartland of the genre.
Fading Path is a black metal project from Tiraspol in Transnistria, Moldova, formed in 2025. They channel black metal from one of Europe's most geopolitically unusual territories — an unrecognized breakaway state between Moldova and Ukraine.
Fading Roses is a raw black metal/dark ambient/noise project from France, formed in 2022. The project blends the rawness of black metal with dark ambient and noise elements.
Fading Spirit is an atmospheric black metal project from the United Kingdom, formed in 2017. The project creates expansive, ethereal atmospheric black metal.
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