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Dark Master is a death/thrash metal band from the canton of Schwyz, active since 2011 and channeling the aggressive energy of both genres from the mountainous heart of central Switzerland. Their music trades in dark, riff-forward compositions that favor intensity over subtlety.
Dark Memories is a thrash/melodic death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2019. They forge dark, melodic metal from the Catalan capital.
Dark Mind is a thrash/power metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2022. They combine thrash's aggression with power metal's anthemic energy.
Monroe, Connecticut's Dark Myth have carved out a niche in the technical power/thrash space since 2013, pairing the speed and precision of thrash with power metal's grandiose melodic instincts.
One of South Dakota's more tenacious metal exports, Dark Nation have been playing death/thrash out of Rapid City since 2002 — over two decades of riff-driven aggression from the northern plains.
Chesapeake, Virginia's Dark Omen have been delivering straight-ahead thrash metal since 2011, a band that keeps the genre's core values — velocity, aggression, and riff supremacy — firmly in place.
Atlanta's Dark Overlord came back swinging in 2021 with a thrash metal sound that fits the city's growing extreme metal scene, leaning into classic genre trappings with confidence and teeth.
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.
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