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Dark Intervals is a heavy/doom metal band from Oulu, Finland, active since 2011. They explore dark sonic intervals through heavy and doom metal from northern Finland.
A New York heavy/power metal act with roots going back to 2014, Dark Knight deal in the kind of muscular, hook-driven metal that nods to classic American power metal without apology.
Born in the Bronx in 2016, Dark Knights of the Soul fuse heavy and doom metal into something that carries the weight of New York City's streets — slow-burning, massive, and spiritually bleak.
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.
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