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Dark Tower is a black/death metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2006 and signed to Eternal Hatred Records. The band released the album "Eight Spears" in 2016 through Lab6 Records, recorded and mixed at AM Studio in Rio de Janeiro. They followed it with "Obedientia," a joint release by Extreme Sound Records, Electric Funeral Records, and Native Blood Produções.
Dark Tranquillity is one of the Gothenburg Three — alongside At the Gates and In Flames — that defined the melodic death metal genre in the early 1990s. Their extensive discography, from Skydancer through decades of evolution, has shaped the sound of an entire subgenre while the band has continually refined and expanded their approach to melodic extremity.
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 Veil is a melodic death metal band from London, England, formed in 2024. They deliver veiled melodic death metal from the British capital.
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.
Hazlet, New Jersey's Dark-Fire has been working the death/thrash seam since 2013, bringing Jersey Shore grit to a style that rewards precision and controlled aggression in equal measure.
Huntington Beach's Darkale sharpens melodic death metal's Swedish influences to a keen edge with Southern California precision, a project that has been bringing craft and melody to the Orange County underground since 2013.
Darkall Slaves is a brutal death metal band from Lille, France, active since 2008. They deliver enslaving brutality from northern France.
Buffalo's Darkapathy works the slow, suffocating intersection of death and doom metal, layering cavernous vocals over glacial riffs in a city whose long, brutal winters make the genre feel lived-in rather than theatrical, active since 2012.
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