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Forbidden Shape is a death/thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2013. They deliver technically charged death/thrash from Moscow's deep and competitive extreme metal underground.
Force Fed Farm Animals (FFFA) is a death metal and grindcore band from Vienna, Austria, who describe themselves as making "stinky music about animals." Their 2025 release "Brutally Molested Lemon Cake" carries on the short, blasting goregrind tradition with an irreverent animal-rights-adjacent absurdism.
Forced Asphyxia is a heavy/thrash/death metal band from Scotland, formed in 2011. The band blends the weight of heavy metal with thrash and death metal aggression.
Forced Elimination is a death/doom metal band from Santander, Spain, formed in 2020. The band merges death metal brutality with doom metal's crushing pace from the Cantabrian coast.
Forced Evolution was a progressive death metal band based in Belgium and Enschede, Netherlands, active from 2009 until their breakup in 2011. They released their debut full-length "Sealed" in 2009, blending progressive structures with melodic death metal, but persistent difficulties finding a permanent vocalist prevented them from touring and ultimately led to their dissolution.
Forced Shadow is a melodic death metal band from Schaffhausen, Switzerland, formed in 2025. As one of the newest melodic death metal acts in the Swiss scene, the project blends aggression with melody.
Forced to Decay was a death metal/grindcore band from Solingen, Germany, active from 1994 until 2001. Over their nine-year run, they played more than 350 shows and released three CDs/LPs alongside several other recordings, with members going on to form The Other and Kontrolle after the band's dissolution.
Forcefed Horsehead is a death metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2011. Their provocatively absurd name belies the serious extremity of their death metal, contributing to Oslo's deep pool of underground death metal talent.
ForceOut is a melodic death metal band from Zolochiv in the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine, active since 2013. They bring Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal to the small Galician city.
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