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Salt Lake City's Darkblood has been bridging thrash's aggression and progressive metal's compositional ambition since 2002, making them one of Utah's longer-running heavy metal acts with a sound that rewards patient listeners.
Louisville's Darkenbachammer throw death, thrash, and black metal into a single grinding maw, producing a filthy, multi-genre assault that feels native to Kentucky's underground. Formed in 2017, they embody the collision-course energy of three styles that refuse to stay separate.
Darkened is a thrash metal band from Heckmondwike, England, formed in 2019. They deliver darkened thrash from West Yorkshire.
Darker It Gets is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from the South West Flanders region of Belgium, drawing members from the Kortrijk and Roeselare area's converging hardcore and metal scenes. The band's sound fuses melodic Scandinavian death metal riffing with metalcore structures, occupying a crossover space well-represented in Belgian extreme metal.
Darkest Hand is a groove/thrash metal band from West Yorkshire, England, formed in 2020. They deliver dark-handed grooves and thrash from northern England.
Darkfall is a Graz-based thrash death metal band active since 1995, built around what they call "high-quality and uncompromising Thrashed Death Metal." Their catalog includes albums Road to Redemption, At the End of Times, and Thrashing Death Squad, establishing them as one of the longer-running extremists in the Styrian metal scene.
Darkhammer is a black/thrash metal band from Ananindeua, Pará, Brazil, formed in 2022 with a sound rooted in hatred, destruction, and anti-Christian themes. The trio — featuring Lucas Jhones on guitars and vocals, L. Blanco on bass, and Vitor Hugo on drums — released their debut album “Possessed by Death” in November 2022, which includes a cover of Mayhem’s “Freezing Moon” alongside six original tracks recorded at Fabrika Studios.
Darkhat is a thrash metal band from Waltershausen, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver straightforward, riff-heavy thrash with no-frills aggression.
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.
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