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Dark Aladas is a thrash/groove metal band from Santander, Spain, active since 2005. With two decades of activity, they are veteran thrashers from the Cantabrian coast.
Bryan, Texas's Dark Altar have been consecrating blackened death metal rituals since 2015, fusing the grim atmosphere of black metal with death metal's crushing low-end brutality. A Texas underground institution with a genuinely menacing presence.
Out of Topeka since 2012, Dark Apostle weld blackened hostility to thrash's kinetic aggression, delivering a punishing collision of riff-driven fury and corrosive atmosphere. Their blackened thrash approach pulls no punches, built for the pit and soaked in menace.
A ferocious hybrid born in Niles, Michigan in 2024, Dark Army fuse black metal's icy spite with industrial machinery and thrash-speed aggression into something genuinely caustic. The combination makes for a battalion sound that feels both mechanical and feral.
Dark Asylum is a power/thrash metal band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2003 and known for blending heavy aggression with melody across both genres. After an extended hiatus, the band resurfaced in 2021 with the EP Deep in the Madness — tracks recorded in 2007 but only then released — featuring guest appearances from Cássio Grovermann of Megalon and guitarist Richard Powell.
Dark Awake is a melodic thrash/death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2008. They deliver melodic aggression through the lens of thrash and death metal.
Dark Day Dungeon is a melodic death/thrash metal and metalcore act from Baar in the canton of Zug, active since 1999 and blending Scandinavian-style melodeath with modern metalcore sensibilities. Their quarter-century of output marks them as veterans of the Swiss extreme metal scene.
Dark Deception out of Hampstead deal in the velocity-heavy overlap of thrash, speed, and power metal — songs that push hard on the accelerator and rarely let up. Formed in 2018, they favor aggression calibrated with the precision of classic power metal.
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