Frames is a progressive metal band from Apulia, Italy, active since 2009. They craft intricate, compositionally ambitious progressive metal from Italy's southeastern Adriatic coast, contributing to a region better known for folk traditions than extreme music.

Francesco Fareri is an instrumental guitar virtuoso and solo progressive metal artist from Rome, active since 2007. Across six solo albums including Secrets Within, Forbidden Dimension, and Primal Instinct — the latter featuring guest solos from Takayoshi Ohmura, Syu, and Rusty Cooley — he handles all instruments, mixing, and mastering with complete creative autonomy.

Franck Ridel Project is a progressive metal project from Lisieux, France, formed in 2012. The project explores progressive metal from the Norman pilgrimage town.

Frank Caruso is a heavy/progressive metal shred guitarist from Milan, Italy, active since 2024. His solo work showcases technical guitar mastery within a progressive metal framework, joining Milan's robust community of instrumentally focused metal artists.

Frank Johansen is a progressive metal solo artist from Lokken Verk in central Norway, active since 2010. His work channels progressive metal ambition from a small former mining town in the Trondelag region.

Frankior is a progressive doom/death metal band from Mainz, Germany, formed in 2021. The band fuses progressive song structures with the crushing weight of doom and death metal from the Rhineland-Palatinate capital.

Fred Brum is a progressive metal solo artist from Lisbon, Portugal, active since 2011. He channels technically ambitious, instrumentally focused progressive metal as a solo endeavor, contributing to Portugal's small but dedicated progressive metal community.

Frevel is a progressive black metal band from Tuttlingen, Germany, formed in 2022. The band pushes black metal into progressive territory from the Swabian town on the upper Danube.

From Silence is a progressive death metal band from the Grenoble/Lyon area of France, formed in 2015. The band explores the progressive side of death metal from the Rhône-Alpes region.