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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Five Will Die is a sludge/doom metal band from Cork, Ireland, one of the longer-running heavy bands in the Munster scene with origins dating back to 2006. The project delivers crushing sludge and doom metal from southern Ireland.
Five Wounds is a black metal project from Krakow, Poland, formed in 2014. Their name references the stigmata — the five wounds of Christ — signaling the religious and spiritual darkness at the core of their black metal from Poland's historic royal capital.
Fixation on Suffering is a brutal death metal band from the Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2017. The band delivers relentless, punishing brutal death metal from the northern Spanish autonomous community.
Fizz is a power/thrash metal band from Scheibenberg, Germany, formed in 2023. The band brings energetic power and thrash metal from the small Erzgebirge mountain town in Saxony.
Fjall is a melodic post-black metal band from Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2023. The project blends post-rock expansiveness with melodic black metal aggression.
Fjallsbur is an atmospheric post-black metal project from Iceland, emerging in 2025. The project creates expansive, landscape-driven post-black metal from the land of fire and ice.
Fjell is a black metal band from Illertissen, Germany, formed in 2019. The project's Scandinavian name — meaning "mountain" — speaks to their Nordic-influenced black metal from the Swabian town.
Fjellheim is a black metal project from Italy, formed in 2020. Taking a Norwegian-language name meaning 'mountain home,' the project channels the cold atmospherics and naturalistic themes of Scandinavian black metal through an Italian creative perspective.
Fjelltrone is a black metal and dark ambient project from Karlshamn in the Blekinge region of southern Sweden, active since 1999. Over a quarter century they have blended black metal with dark ambient textures from the Baltic coast.
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