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The Flesh Trading Company is a heavy/thrash/death metal band from Hassfurt, Germany, formed in 2012. They combine the heaviness of three extreme metal subgenres into a devastating assault.
The Florentine Camerata is a technical death/groove metal band from the Plymouth/Torbay area of Devon, active since 2014. Named after the Renaissance-era Florentine intellectual circle, they bring an unusually cerebral approach to technical and groove-oriented death metal.
The Foreshadowing from Rome craft gothic and doom metal with the prophetic darkness their name demands since 2007. Nearly two decades of foreboding compositions from the Eternal City has established them as one of Italy's most respected gothic doom acts.
Emerging from Landskrona, Sweden, in 1999 out of the earlier act Septic Breed, The Forsaken occupy an aggressive corner of the melodic death metal genre that leans heavily toward thrash in both tempo and attitude, with raspy screamed vocals and relentlessly driving guitar work. The band released four full-length albums between 2001 and 2012, including records on Massacre Records, and has maintained a reputation for a heavier, less keyboard-dependent approach than many of their Scandinavian peers. Though never among the scene's highest-profile acts, they are a consistently respected name in Swedish extreme metal.
The Frost from Zagreb deliver black metal with the icy intensity their wintry name demands since 2011. Over a decade of frozen compositions from the Croatian capital has produced hostile, temperature-dropping extremity.
The Full Nelson from Copenhagen deliver sludge metal with the wrestling-hold intensity their grappling name demands since 2024. Their sound locks the listener in an inescapable grip of low-tuned heaviness from the Danish capital.
The Fumers is a heavy/doom metal/psychedelic rock band from Karlsruhe, Germany, formed in 2024. They blend doom metal's weight with psychedelic rock's mind-bending textures.
The Furies from Palmi in Calabria evolved from metalcore into power and folk metal, named after the Greek goddesses of vengeance since 2011. Over a decade from the Calabrian coast channels the Erinyes' wrath through evolving metal styles.
The Furious Horde is a symphonic black/gothic metal band from Essex, active since 2007. Their music combines the orchestral grandeur of symphonic metal with the darkness of black and gothic metal, creating dramatic and atmospheric compositions.
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