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Infinite Terror (2024)
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With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Forod Lad is a folk/power metal band from Vicenza, Italy, formed in 2017. They fuse the melodic grandeur of power metal with folk elements, drawing on both the Veneto region's cultural heritage and the broader European folk metal tradition.
Forodwaith is a melodic death/folk metal band from Vitebsk in the northern lands of Belarus. Their 2017 debut album "The One" blends heavy instrumentation with folk elements and thematic content drawn from Norse mythology, delivered across nine tracks of melodic death metal with folk metal ornamentation.
Forseti is a black/folk metal band from Germany, formed in 2019. Named after the Norse god of justice, the band blends folk traditions with the aggression of black metal.
FoxTale is an epic folk metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2017. They weave Slavic folk traditions into epic, narrative-driven metal compositions from the Russian capital.
FrogSword is a folk metal band from Stafford, England, emerging in 2024 to blend folk musical traditions with heavy metal instrumentation. The project represents the newer wave of British folk metal.
From a Wanderers Mind is a stoner metal band with folk influences from Germany, formed in 2020. The project blends heavy stoner riffs with acoustic folk elements for a wandering, introspective sound.
Frostborne is a folk metal band from Belgrade, Serbia, formed in 2024. They bring folk-influenced metal to the Serbian capital, drawing on Balkan folk traditions as raw material for their heavy music.
Frostnacht is a black metal and folk metal project from Dürnbach, Lower Austria. Their Bandcamp catalog includes albums "Im Schatten der Wälder" (In the Shadow of the Forests) and "Weltenwanderer" (World Wanderer), titles that reflect a nature-focused, pagan aesthetic drawing on the forested Austrian landscape.
Frostspawn is a folk/Viking metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2019. They merge Norse Viking metal themes with folk instrumentation from Russia's window on the Baltic, a city with deep historical ties to Scandinavian culture.
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