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Dark Pools is a death/groove metal outfit from the Adriatic port city of Trieste, fusing the technical precision of death metal with the rhythmic punch of groove metal. Their songs move between crushing breakdowns and intricate passages with the relentless momentum of a tidal surge.
Dark Prayer is a melodic death metal band from Naantali, Finland, formed in 2015. They deliver emotive melodic death metal from the southwestern Finnish coast.
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.
Operating out of Oakford, Pennsylvania since 2020, Dark Prophet deliver death/thrash metal with a directness that suits the suburban Philadelphia underground — no frills, just riffs.
Placentia, California's Dark Prophet throw groove metal into their death/thrash foundation, the added pocket and midrange weight distinguishing them from more straightforward acts in the same lane.
Dark Reality is a band from Mainz, Germany, formed in 2019, that evolved from death/folk metal into a folk metal/rock direction. Their sound bridges extreme metal's intensity with folk elements and melodic sensibilities.
Dark Revenge started as a melodic death metal act in the Siberian university city of Tomsk before evolving toward progressive metal and metalcore. Active since 2011, their stylistic journey traces an arc from Scandinavian melodeath influence toward more complex, contemporary territory.
Dark Rhapsody is a death and thrash metal band from Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. The project fuses death metal with thrash velocity.
Dark Ride is a melodic death metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2020. The project channels emotionally charged melodic death metal from the Polish capital.
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