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Placentia, California's Dark Prophet throw groove metal into their death/thrash foundation, the added pocket and midrange weight distinguishing them from more straightforward acts in the same lane.
Lansing, Michigan's Dark Psychosis have been fusing black and thrash metal since 2004, a two-decade run that's kept them rooted in the Midwest underground while developing a distinctly blackened thrashing attack.
Seymour, Tennessee's Dark Requiem work in black/thrash metal territory, a 2021 formation that brings the hills and hollers of East Tennessee an appropriately ominous and speed-driven sound.
Dark Rhapsody is a death and thrash metal band from Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. The project fuses death metal with thrash velocity.
Chicago's Dark Ritual have been delivering heads-down thrash metal since 2015, part of a city scene that has long nurtured underground metal with genuine intensity and minimal compromise.
Miami's Dark Ritual fuse thrash and heavy metal in a city better known for sunshine than speed riffs, bringing a heat-warped intensity to the genre since 2015.
New York's Dark Saga arrived in 2017 with a power/thrash hybrid that leans into neck-snapping riff velocity without abandoning the anthemic hooks that power metal demands. Expect twin-guitar aggression balanced against soaring vocal lines.
Dark Season fuses electronic elements with black and thrash metal from Bolzano in South Tyrol, creating a hybrid sound that sets synthesized textures against aggressive riffing and blast beats. This cross-pollination of industrial electronics and extreme metal gives their material a distinctive, genre-defying character.
Dark Seducer is a blackened thrash metal band from Padre Hurtado, in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, signed to Sick Rites Records. Their debut EP 'Divinidad Mortal', released on February 11, 2023, was produced and mixed by Luis Zuñiga at Sala Soul Music in Peñaflor, with drums tracked at Pajarera Estudio in Isla de Maipo.
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