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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Wild Child (2023)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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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.
Frank Needs Help is a metalcore band from Bern, Switzerland, formed in 2019. The band delivers aggressive, breakdown-laden metalcore from the Swiss capital.
Frankenstein is a heavy metal band from Zuidwolde in the Netherlands, formed in 2014. Named after Mary Shelley's immortal creation, they deliver riff-driven traditional heavy metal from the rural Drenthe province.
Franki Hiller is a heavy metal and shred solo project from Blankenberge, Belgium, launched in 2020. The project showcases high-speed guitar technique and classic heavy metal songwriting from the Belgian coast.
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.
Frankreich is a sludge metal/noise rock band from Cherbourg, France, formed in 2017. The band — whose name is the German word for "France" — blends sludge metal with noise rock from the Cotentin Peninsula.
Fransis Forth is a melodic death/black metal project from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2025. As a very recent addition to the Bulgarian extreme metal scene, the project blends melodic sensibilities with the aggression of death and black metal.
Frantic is a technical speed metal band from Holzwickede, Germany, active since 2001. With over two decades of activity, the band has honed their technically demanding speed metal from the Ruhr periphery.
Frantic Aggressor is a black/thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2016. The band fuses the chaos of black metal with the relentless speed of thrash.
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