Fading Waves is a progressive sludge/post-metal band from Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, active since 2011. Over a decade they have developed a sophisticated approach to atmospheric heavy music, blending sludge weight with post-metal dynamics from the Don River metropolis.

Fairy Duster is a doom/post-metal band from Fürth, Germany, formed in 2014. After releasing the impressive "KARASëA" EP in 2014 and then going quiet for years, they returned heavier than before with their 2025 debut album "Far from Light and Time," featuring artwork by renowned painter Mariusz Lewandowski.

Faith is a doom/post-metal band from Omsk in western Siberia, formed in 2021. They craft heavy, contemplative doom and post-metal from the city on the Irtysh River, deep in the Siberian steppe.

Fall of Efrafa is a sludge/post-metal/crust band from Brighton, England. Named after a warren from Richard Adams' "Watership Down," the band creates politically charged sludge and post-metal.

Fall of Terra is a doom/post-metal band from the island of Stord in western Norway, formed in 2023. They craft expansive, atmospheric heavy music from the dramatic fjord landscape of Hordaland, blending doom weight with post-metal dynamics.

Fall Time. is a post-metal and sludge metal band from Vienna, Austria. Their music draws on the slow, crushing heaviness and abrasive textures characteristic of the sludge and post-metal tradition, building long-form compositions that shift between dense, distorted passages and quieter atmospheric sections.

Farer is an atmospheric sludge/post-metal band split between Groningen and Utrecht in the Netherlands, formed in 2021. They blend the crushing weight of sludge with the expansive dynamics of post-metal, creating atmospheric heaviness shaped by the Dutch lowland landscape.

Fate Mystified is a progressive/post-metal band from Krakow, Poland, formed in 2017. They explore the atmospheric expanses of post-metal through a progressive lens, operating from Poland's cultural capital.

Feversea is a post-metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2023. They craft atmospheric, dynamically expansive post-metal from the Norwegian capital, trading in the genre's signature tension between crushing heaviness and contemplative quiet.