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Dark Whisper was a heavy metal band from Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The band's lyrical themes focused on warfare and death, and they operated as an unsigned independent act. They are listed in the Encyclopaedia Metallum and have since split up.
Dark Wish is a heavy/thrash metal band from Drancy, France, formed in 2023. They deliver heavy/thrash from the Parisian suburbs.
Dark Wizard is a heavy metal band from Vroomshoop, Netherlands, formed in 2016. The project delivers classic heavy metal power from the eastern Dutch underground.
Darkanimal is a heavy/thrash metal band from Córdoba, Spain, formed in 2021. They deliver fierce thrash and heavy metal from the heart of Andalusia.
Emerging from the high plains of Sheridan, Wyoming, Darken craft technical black/death metal with an isolationist ferocity that mirrors the emptiness of the state's wind-swept landscape. Their intricate riff work and cold, precise compositions set them apart from Wyoming's sparse extreme metal scene.
Darkest Era is a heavy/Celtic folk metal band from Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, active since 2014. They blend Celtic folklore with epic heavy metal from the shores of Lough Erne.
Darkhaven is a progressive/heavy metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2020. They craft ambitious progressive metal from the West Country.
Cincinnati thrash act Darkhold arrived in 2022 with old-school velocity and riff-first songwriting that owes its allegiance to the genre's 1980s Bay Area architects. No frills, no concessions — just heads-down thrash with Midwest directness.
Darking is an epic heavy metal band from Piombino, the same Tuscan steel town that spawned Dark Quarterer, and carries forward that city's tradition of ambitious, narrative-driven metal. Their material draws on historical and mythological themes delivered with the grandeur and dramatic flair that defines Italian epic metal.
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