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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Faceless Entity is a raw black metal project from the Netherlands, active since 2017. They deal in stripped-down, lo-fi black metal that prioritizes atmosphere and aggression over production polish, operating within the Dutch underground.
Faded Colors is a raw black metal project from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2023. They strip black metal to its rawest essentials, delivering lo-fi hostility from the Russian capital.
Fading Roses is a raw black metal/dark ambient/noise project from France, formed in 2022. The project blends the rawness of black metal with dark ambient and noise elements.
Fanaticism is a raw black metal project from Hungary, active since 2015 and channeling uncompromising lo-fi black metal. The project operates in the underground reaches of the Hungarian black metal scene.
Faunul din Smida is an atmospheric/raw black metal project from Romania, formed in 2023. Their Romanian name — 'The Faun of Smida' — references a village in the Apuseni Mountains, anchoring their black metal in the wild, forested landscapes of western Transylvania.
Fel is a raw black metal band from Angers, France, formed in 2023. The band creates abrasive, lo-fi black metal from the Maine-et-Loire capital.
Fenriz is a raw black metal project from Chorzow in the Silesian Voivodeship, formed in 2023. Despite sharing a name with Darkthrone's legendary drummer, this Polish project carves its own path through raw, uncompromising black metal from Upper Silesia.
Fields of Agony is a raw black metal project from the United Kingdom, formed in 2026. The project is among the newest raw black metal voices in the British underground.
Finsterwald is a raw black metal project from Saarbrücken, Germany, formed in 2025. The project's name — "dark forest" — evokes the primal wilderness central to their raw black metal aesthetic.
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