Melodic black metal band from Tarbes in the French Pyrenees, active since 2016. They blend melody with black metal ferocity from the foothills of the mountains.

Black and gothic metal act from Lappeenranta, Finland formed in autumn 1996 by Tomi Mykkanen and vocalist Jarno Taskula. They have shared stages with Anathema, Samael, Lacuna Coil, and Vader, with a discography spanning from In Thine Majesty to III.

The Swedish city of Västerås serves as headquarters for this black metal, death metal, and melodic black metal operation, whose arsenal includes second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.

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False Reality is a melodic black/death metal band from Brasov, Romania, formed in 2024. They channel melodic extreme metal from the Transylvanian mountain city, a region whose Gothic architecture and Carpathian landscape have long inspired dark art.

Fantoft is a melodic black metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2017. Named after the historic Fantoft stave church in Norway, the band channels Scandinavian melodic black metal tradition through a Saxon lens.

Fatimah is a melodic black metal project from Brussels, Belgium, formed in 2022. Their releases "Waves of Fatimah" and "Mortui Redierunt" present music made, in their words, "by and for the lost souls of this vale of tears," blending melody with an occult, mystical atmosphere.

Fausttophel is a melodic black metal project from Poltava, Ukraine, active since 2013. Their Faustian name signals the deal-with-the-devil themes running through their melodic black metal from central Ukraine.

Fear the Future is a melodic black/death metal band from Nassjo in the Smaland region, active since 2012. They blend melodic sensibility with extreme metal aggression from the forested interior of southern Sweden.