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Falconer is a folk/power metal band from Mjolby in Ostergotland, active since 2001. Over two decades they have established themselves as one of Sweden's most distinctive folk-infused power metal acts, blending medieval Scandinavian folk melodies with driving power metal.
Faleng is a funeral doom metal project from Yegoryevsk in the Moscow Oblast, formed in 2025. They channel the glacial pace and overwhelming heaviness of funeral doom from the Russian heartland.
Falet is an experimental black metal project from Marche, Italy, launched in 2018 by vocalist/guitarist Federico (Dreeam) and expanded into a five-piece incorporating keyboards, dual guitars, and progressive and ambient textures. Their 2024 full-length Premonition consolidates these influences across six tracks of genre-blurring extreme metal.
Falkenbach is a pioneering viking/black/folk metal project from Düsseldorf, Germany, led by Vratyas Vakyas and active for more than two decades since the mid-1990s. Described as a trailblazer and prime mover of pagan metal, the project blends epic heroism, Germanic mythology, and Norse-tinged folklore with metallic aggression across albums like "...en their medh riki fara...," "Ok nefna tysvar Ty," "Heralding — The Fireblade," and "Asa."
Falkirk is a heavy metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2013. Named after the Scottish city, the band delivers classic heavy metal from the French capital.
Fall Damage is a thrash/groove metal band from Finland, formed in 2020. The band combines thrash metal speed with groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Fall of a Season was a metalcore and death metal band from Genthin in eastern Germany, founded in 2001 by five friends. Over their six-year run they released an EP, a split CD with Brazilian band Xconfrontox, and the 2004 debut album "Decades in a Bleeding World," playing more than 300 shows across Germany and Europe before disbanding in 2007.
Fall of April is a melodic death metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2023. The band brings melodic death metal to the Bavarian capital's thriving heavy music scene.
Fall of Death is a metalcore turned alternative rock band from Thann, France, formed in 2011. The band evolved from metalcore origins into a more accessible alternative rock direction from the Alsatian town.
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