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Dark Letter is a thrash/death metal band from the Schwaigern/Heilbronn area of Germany, formed in 2015. They deliver aggressive, tightly-wound thrash infused with death metal's heaviness.
Dark Master is a death/thrash metal band from the canton of Schwyz, active since 2011 and channeling the aggressive energy of both genres from the mountainous heart of central Switzerland. Their music trades in dark, riff-forward compositions that favor intensity over subtlety.
Dark Matter Secret plays progressive death metal from Moscow, active since 2015 and treating the invisible mass that holds the universe together as a metaphor for the hidden complexity in their compositions. Their cosmological name suits music that explores the unseen structures underlying extreme metal.
Dark Memories is a thrash/melodic death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2019. They forge dark, melodic metal from the Catalan capital.
Dark Millennium is a German act from Bad Fredeburg whose roots stretch back to the early 1990s, playing a distinctive blend of progressive, death, and doom metal. They were part of the first wave of European progressive death metal, and their atmospheric, genre-blending approach remains as distinctive today as it was three decades ago.
One of South Dakota's more tenacious metal exports, Dark Nation have been playing death/thrash out of Rapid City since 2002 — over two decades of riff-driven aggression from the northern plains.
Dark Oceans We Cry is a melodic death metal band from Galicia, Spain, active since 2013. They deliver emotive melodic death metal inspired by the vast Atlantic.
Dark Opera is a death metal band from Saarijärvi, Finland, active since 2003. They play dramatic death metal from the Finnish lake district.
Haverhill, Massachusetts' Dark Passenger pull from black, death, and doom metal without committing fully to any single mode, the resulting sound a dense, genre-blurring darkness that's been building since 2019.
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