Freshcut is a brutal death metal/goregrind project from Luhansk, Ukraine, active since 2013. They deliver visceral extremity from the conflict-affected city in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.

Fresno Bob is a stoner/doom metal band from Ravenna, Italy, formed in 2022. They trade in the heavy, fuzz-laden riffs and slow-burning grooves that define the stoner doom intersection, bringing low-end weight to Emilia-Romagna's underground.

Freternia is a power metal band from Boras in western Sweden, active since 2000. A quarter century of power metal from the Vastergotland region makes them one of the most enduring acts in the Swedish power metal scene.

Fretless is a melodic heavy metal band from Vansbro in the Dalarna region, formed in 2020. Their name — unusual for a metal band — signals a distinctive approach to melodic heavy metal from rural central Sweden.

Fretting Obscurity is a funeral doom/death metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2018. They channel the slowest, most oppressive extremes of doom metal from the Ukrainian capital.

Freund Hein was a death/thrash and melodic death metal band from Höllenstein, Lower Austria, formed in 1997 out of the earlier project Craving for Valusia (active from 1994). Named after the German personification of death, the band's sound mixed death, thrash, heavy, and near-gothic metal elements, documented on their records reviewed by Yperano Records as "Coincidentia Oppositorum," before some members moved on to form Hellavista.

Frevel is a progressive black metal band from Tuttlingen, Germany, formed in 2022. The band pushes black metal into progressive territory from the Swabian town on the upper Danube.

Friend of Misery is a heavy metal band from Metz, France, formed in 2013. The band delivers classic heavy metal from the Moselle city on the German-Luxembourg border.

Friendly Fire is a thrash/heavy metal band from Germany, formed in 2008. The band blends the speed of thrash with the hooks of classic heavy metal.