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ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Seed of Singularity (2024)
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All Hell's Breaking Loose Down at Little Kathy Wilson's Place - Remastered (2025)
05/24 @ The Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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First Martyr is a black metal project from Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, formed in 2022. They channel black metal intensity from the Don River metropolis, one of southern Russia's most culturally significant cities.
First Offence is a heavy metal band from Evesham, England, formed in 2024. The band plays traditional heavy metal from the Worcestershire vale.
First Revival is a heavy metal band from Lulea in the far north of Sweden, formed in 2018. They deliver classic heavy metal from above the Arctic Circle, where the extreme Norrland climate matches the genre's fierce energy.
First Strike is a thrash/speed metal band from the Wachenroth/Erlangen area of Germany, formed in 2022. The band plays fast, aggressive thrash and speed metal from the Franconian region.
First Temple of the Atom is a doom/post-metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2017. The band creates expansive, atmospheric doom and post-metal from Scotland's largest city.
First Time in Hell is a heavy metal band from Dortmund, Germany, formed in 2019. The band delivers heavy metal from the working-class Ruhr area city.
First to Die is a grindcore/hardcore band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2023. They deliver short, violent bursts of grindcore and hardcore from the Ukrainian capital.
Firstborn is a melodic death/black metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, active since 2005 and one of the capital city's longer-running extreme metal acts. The project blends melodic death metal hooks with black metal atmospheres.
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