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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Flemington, New Jersey's Dark Legion arrived in 2022 with a death/thrash hybrid that's as punishing as it is precise — the kind of band that sounds equally at home in a basement or a festival pit.
Operating under the stylized 'dvrklxxd' alias on Bandcamp, this heavy metal act has been active since 2013, their deliberately obscured presentation matching a sound that lurks at the genre's heavier, more anonymous edges.
Seattle's heavy metal landscape has room for introspection too — Dark Meditation formed in 2020 and bring a deliberate, riff-focused approach that rewards patience as much as headbanging.
Dark Night is a Christian heavy metal band from Santa Maria da Vitória, Bahia, Brazil, formed in 2008 and combining dark, horror-influenced aesthetics with an explicitly Christian lyrical perspective. The band has released a prolific run of independent albums including "Night of Halloween" (2011), "Cemetery Porter" (2012), "Tales After Midnight" (2013), "Zombie" (2014), "Funeral Night" (2015), and "The Crow" (2017), many of which were later remastered and reissued through Christian Metal Underground.
Dark Nightmare is an epic heavy metal band from Grevena, Greece, formed in 2016 and signed to Eat Metal Records. Their debut album Tortured Souls (2016) delivers nine tracks of sweeping epic metal across nearly an hour, drawing comparisons to acts like Solstice and Wytch Hazel.
Dark Nova is a heavy and power metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2023. The band channel the melodic intensity and dual-guitar attack of classic European power metal.
Dark Passage is a Turin-based heavy metal act whose output channels the spirit of classic heavy metal through a contemporary Italian lens. Their riff-driven material delivers muscular guitar work and powerful vocals that draw from the deep well of European traditional metal.
Dark Path is a heavy and doom metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2019. The band merge the heaviness of doom metal with traditional heavy metal in their dark, atmospheric compositions.
Dark Phoenix is a video game music (VGM) heavy metal band from Brazil that specializes in metal and progressive rock arrangements of classic video game soundtracks, drawing from series such as Mega Man, Castlevania, Street Fighter, and Metal Slug. The band brings jazz fusion and progressive influences to its arrangements, covering both iconic and underrated game music. Their recordings are self-released and available on Bandcamp and SoundCloud.
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