Foillis is a black/doom metal band from Bonne, France, formed in 2024. The band merges black metal darkness with doom metal weight from the Haute-Savoie department.

Fokker is a black metal band from Kiel, Germany, formed in 2016. The band channels raw black metal from the Schleswig-Holstein state capital on the Baltic coast.

Folge dem Wind is a pagan black metal band from Montgeron, France, formed in 2014. The band's German name — meaning "follow the wind" — signals their pagan black metal aesthetic from the southern Paris suburbs.

Folie a Deux is a death metal band from Sundsvall on the northern Swedish coast, formed in 2016. Named after the psychiatric phenomenon of shared psychosis, they deliver death metal from the Norrland coastline.

Folk Metal Jacket is a folk metal band from Modena, Italy, formed in 2012. Across releases including Our War Has Begun, Spill This Album, and Eulogy For The Gentle Fools, they blend traditional folk instrumentation and melodies with heavy metal aggression, their playful name riffing on Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket.

Folkedudl is a folk metal band from Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany, active since 2004. With two decades of activity, the band has been weaving folk traditions into heavy metal from the lower Rhine region.

FolkenTroll is a folk metal band from Lecce in Puglia, formed in 2019. They bring the folk metal tradition to Italy's deep south, fusing regional folk sensibilities with heavy metal from the Salento peninsula.

Folkmord is a death metal/punk band from Umea in northern Sweden, active since 2011. Their name — Swedish for 'genocide' — and their blending of death metal with punk reflect the politically charged, crust-adjacent underground of Umea, a city historically associated with radical politics.

Folkrim is a folk metal band from Rauma, Finland, formed in 2021. The band weaves Finnish folk traditions into a heavy metal framework from the UNESCO-listed coastal town.