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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Miami's Dark Tomorrow has been fusing melodic black and death metal since 2010, grafting Scandinavian melody onto Florida's death metal DNA with a sound that reflects the city's peculiar extremity — humid, relentless, and ornate.
Los Angeles's Dark Tormentor delivers no-frills black metal with a rawness that deliberately sidesteps the city's slicker production tendencies, opting for cold atmosphere over polish since forming in 2022.
Dark Towers is a black metal band from Liverpool, England, formed in 2024. They deliver towering black metal from Merseyside.
Vancouver, Washington's Dark Triumph pursues orthodox black metal with a dedication to the genre's foundational aesthetics, operating quietly in the Pacific Northwest underground since 2022.
La Puente, California's Dark Union forges blackened death metal in the tradition of Los Angeles County's long underground extreme metal history, offering no concessions to accessibility since forming in 2013.
Dark Vision is an extreme metal band from Piraeus and Athens, Greece, formed in 1997, evolving from a six-piece gothic/symphonic black metal configuration to their current black/death metal quartet. Their 2021 album Ianos, mixed at Stage One Studios in Germany and released through Cult of Parthenope, features stormy black metal with death elements, backed by a live history that includes sharing stages with Mayhem, Satyricon, Rotting Christ, and Septic Flesh.
Dark War was a black metal band from Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil, whose lyrical themes encompassed anti-Christianity, hate, and death. The band operated as an unsigned independent act and has since split up. They are catalogued in the Encyclopaedia Metallum under ID 78068.
Massachusetts's Dark Was the Night takes its cues from black metal's most desolate and doom-laden corners, building an oppressive sound around the kind of New England bleakness that inspired such music in the first place, active since 2012.
A Missouri black metal act operating since 2019, Dark Watcher keeps its location vague and its sound uncompromising — a solitary presence in the American Midwest whose work prioritizes atmosphere over scene visibility.
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