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Featured Album
Infinite Terror (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Friend of Misery is a heavy metal band from Metz, France, formed in 2013. The band delivers classic heavy metal from the Moselle city on the German-Luxembourg border.
Friendly Fire is a thrash/heavy metal band from Germany, formed in 2008. The band blends the speed of thrash with the hooks of classic heavy metal.
Frigidum Lacrima is a heavy metal band from Volos, Greece, active since 2010. The project's Latin name meaning 'cold tears' reflects their approach to emotionally charged heavy metal from the Thessalian coast.
From Hell is a heavy metal band from Tarragona, Spain, formed in 2015. The band plays classic heavy metal from the ancient Roman port city on the Catalan coast.
From Ruin is a melodic heavy metal band from Warminster, England, active since 2011 and delivering melody-driven traditional metal from the southwest. The project channels the classic British heavy metal tradition.
Front 776 is a melodic heavy metal/RAC band from Saxony, Germany, formed in 2011. The band plays melodic heavy metal from eastern Germany.
FrostFire is a progressive melodic heavy metal band from Bath, England, blending progressive song structures with melodic heavy metal since 2014. The project draws on Bath's creative energy to craft technically ambitious metal.
Frozen Arch is a melodic heavy metal/hard rock band from Paris, France, formed in 2024. The band delivers melodic, hook-driven heavy metal from the French capital.
Frozen Flame is a heavy metal band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2010. The band has spent over a decade delivering classic heavy metal from northern Finland.
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