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Dark Elder plays black metal from Kaluga, active since 2012 and channeling the wisdom and menace of ancient beings through atmospheric compositions. Their Warhammer-evoking name suggests a connection to dark fantasy that pervades their extreme metal.
Dark Elite is a black/death metal band from Finland, formed in 2017. They forge elite extreme metal from the Finnish underground.
Dark Empire is a black metal band from Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, listed on Metal Archives as a split-up act. The band operated independently in the Brazilian underground black metal scene.
Lima, Ohio's Dark Evolution work in the overlapping space between black and death metal, where atmosphere and brutality stop being opposites. Since 2021, they've been building a blackened death sound that feels like a deliberate mutation rather than an accident.
Tampa's Dark Faith have been worshipping at death metal's altar since 2007, drawing on one of the genre's most fertile scenes to fuel a sound that's crushing in the tradition-honoring Florida style. Conviction and violence in equal measure.
Dark Flames is a black metal band from Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, with lyrical themes drawing on paganism and Satanism. The band released material through Goat Music Records before splitting up.
Dark Forest is a black metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, active during the early 2000s and now split up. Their lyrics dealt with themes of Satanism, anti-Christianity, misanthropy, and suicide, and the band released material through the Curse of KvN Sadistic label, with recordings later compiled on "The Early Days."
A Long Island black metal project that emerged in 2021, Dark Frost channels the genre's raw, atmospheric roots into a sound that feels both ancient and immediate.
Dark Fury is a black metal band from Wroclaw, Poland, formed in 2013. The project delivers aggressive and uncompromising black metal from the Lower Silesian capital.
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