Forn Kaldr is a solo atmospheric folk/black metal project from Darlington in northeast England, creating expansive atmospheric metal since 2018. The project's discography includes The End of Everything, Beneath an Ocean of Stars, and Mystic Arcane Lands.

Fornever is a heavy metal band with post-punk influences from Tolmin, Slovenia, formed in 2018. They operate from the town that hosts the famous MetalDays festival, blending classic heavy metal with angular post-punk elements.

Fornhem is a Viking/black metal project from Norrkoping in eastern Sweden, formed in 2017. Their name — meaning 'ancient home' — anchors their Viking metal in the pre-Christian Norse heritage of the Ostergotland region.

Fornication is a black metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2010. The band has spent over a decade forging black metal from the Pink City.

Fornicator is a death metal band from Landeck, Tyrol, formed in 2009 out of the earlier project Burning Corpse (2007–2009). Working in socially critical lyrical territory covering life, death, and misery, the band released a self-titled full-length and has remained active in the underground Austrian death metal scene.

Fornicatus is a depressive black metal project from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2014. The project channels despair and emotional extremity through DSBM.

Fornjotr is a black metal turned brutal death metal band from Kempele, Finland, formed in 2018. Named after the primordial giant of Norse mythology, the band evolved from black metal origins into heavier brutal death territory.

Fornoth is a blackened death metal band from Dublin, Ireland, active since 2019 and fusing black metal's darkness with death metal's brutality. The project operates within Dublin's expanding extreme metal community.

Forod Lad is a folk/power metal band from Vicenza, Italy, formed in 2017. They fuse the melodic grandeur of power metal with folk elements, drawing on both the Veneto region's cultural heritage and the broader European folk metal tradition.