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Actin' Up (2023)
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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Columbia, Missouri's Daven marry symphonic orchestration to black metal's freezing intensity, a grand and dramatic combination that has been unfolding from an unlikely Midwestern address since 2016.
Dawn of a Dark Age is an atmospheric and experimental black metal project from the remote town of Agnone in the Molise region, active since 2011 and exploring the boundaries of black metal through unconventional instrumentation and song structures. Their work pushes beyond genre conventions into territory where folk elements and avant-garde experimentation meet blasting extremity.
Dawn of Apocalypse is a black and thrash metal band from Sala, Sweden, formed in 2016. The project fuses black metal with thrash velocity.
Los Angeles-based Dawn of Ashes have spent over a decade fusing industrial electronics with melodic black metal, crafting a sound as cold and synthetic as it is primal. Their EBM roots push the project into genuinely unnerving territory where machines and darkness share equal billing.
Frigid Melodic Death / Black Metal from Houston.
Dawn of Division is a black metal band from Ioannina, Greece, active since 2003. The band channel the raw aggression and darkness of the Greek black metal tradition.
Dawn of Nil is a progressive black/death metal band from Marseille, France, formed in 2019. They push extreme metal toward nihilistic progressive territory from the Mediterranean port.
Oakland's Dawn of Ouroboros pursue progressive post-black metal with an open-ended curiosity that sets them apart from their Bay Area peers. Since 2019, they've built a sound of cyclical intensity — introspective, dissonant, and deeply textured, much like their serpent-devouring-itself namesake.
Dawn of Relic is a melodic black/death metal band from Oulu, Finland, active since 1999. With over a quarter century of activity, they are veterans of the northern Finnish extreme metal scene.
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