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.

ForChristSake is a melodic death metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 2010. The band crafts emotionally driven melodic death metal from the Northern Irish capital.

Forcing to Suffer is a deathcore band from Khabarovsk in Russia's Far East, formed in 2014. They bring modern deathcore to one of Russia's most geographically isolated major cities, near the Chinese border on the Amur River.

ForeAeon is a thrash/death metal and crust band from Kaunas, Lithuania, formed in 2023. They merge the aggression of thrash and death metal with the punk ethos of crust, representing the Baltic extreme metal underground.

Foreboding Ether is a progressive death metal/deathcore band from Margate, England, formed in 2010. The band combines progressive complexity with death metal and deathcore from the Kent seaside town.

Forecast is a black/death metal band from Malbork, Poland, formed in 2016. They deliver extreme metal from the city dominated by the massive Teutonic Knights castle — the largest brick structure in the world — lending their music an inherently monumental backdrop.