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Out of Avondale, Dark Priest channel black metal's most ritualistic and ominous impulses, a solo or small-group project that's been summoning cold, ceremonial sounds since 2020.
Los Angeles' Dark Prophecy have been forging blackened death/thrash metal since 2013, drawing on the city's legacy of extreme metal extremity to craft music that's technically sharp and unrelentingly aggressive.
Lansing, Michigan's Dark Psychosis have been fusing black and thrash metal since 2004, a two-decade run that's kept them rooted in the Midwest underground while developing a distinctly blackened thrashing attack.
Dark Rain Forest is a black metal act from Rovereto in Trentino whose releases, including the demo and Through the Witch's Forest, conjure an atmosphere of cold alpine menace. Their sound channels the natural darkness of northern Italian mountain landscapes into raw, tremolo-driven black metal.
Dark Ravage is a black metal band from Vilnius, Lithuania, formed in 2004. One of the veteran black metal acts in the Baltic region, the project has delivered decades of dark extreme metal from the Lithuanian capital.
Seymour, Tennessee's Dark Requiem work in black/thrash metal territory, a 2021 formation that brings the hills and hollers of East Tennessee an appropriately ominous and speed-driven sound.
Chicago's Dark Ritual have been delivering heads-down thrash metal since 2015, part of a city scene that has long nurtured underground metal with genuine intensity and minimal compromise.
From Manistique in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, this Dark Ritual project brings a remote, isolated character to their black metal — the kind of geography that breeds music that sounds genuinely alone.
A Morris County, New Jersey melodic black metal act that has been weaving cold atmosphere and sharp melodic sensibility since 2010. Dark Sacrament draws on the Scandinavian tradition while rooting its sound firmly in the American underground.
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