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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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Forskruz is a raw black metal project from France, formed in 2023. The project creates lo-fi, uncompromising raw black metal.
Foul Light is a raw black metal project from Slovakia, formed in 2020. They channel the paradox of their name — light rendered foul — through raw, lo-fi black metal from the Slovak underground.
Foyer du Chaos is a raw black metal/dungeon synth project from Avignon, France, formed in 2023. The project — whose name means "hearth of chaos" — blends raw black metal with dungeon synth from the Papal City of Provence.
Frightening Frozen Moon is a raw black metal project from Sweden, formed in 2023. Their evocative, atmospheric name signals the cold, uncompromising lo-fi black metal they deliver from the Scandinavian underground.
Frostgoroth is a raw black metal project from Norway, formed in 2021. Their name fuses 'frost' with the Tolkienian '-goroth' suffix — meaning 'horror' or 'dread' — signaling their commitment to raw, uncompromising black metal in the Norwegian tradition.
Früchtebrot is a raw black metal project from Bielefeld, Germany, formed in 2024. The project's ironic name — meaning "fruit bread" — belies the rawness of their black metal output from the East Westphalian city.
Fuil na Seanchoille is a raw black metal project from Dublin, Ireland, active since 2008, whose Irish-language name translates to 'blood of the old forest.' The project is one of the longest-running Irish-language black metal acts.
Funeraal is a raw black metal band from Chatou, France, formed in 2013. The band creates lo-fi, abrasive raw black metal from the western Paris suburb.
Funeral Crown is a raw black metal/dark ambient project from Russia, formed in 2021. They merge the lo-fi hostility of raw black metal with dark ambient atmospherics in the Russian underground.
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