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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.
Dark Alliance is a heavy metal band from the Marília/Tupã region of São Paulo state, Brazil, formed in 2024. The band plays traditional heavy metal with themes centered on fantasy, evil, darkness, and power, and is listed on Encyclopaedia Metallum as an independent act with a lineup featuring vocals, twin guitars, bass, and drums.
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.
Dark Altar was a black/death metal band from Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil, active in the mid-to-late 2010s. Drawing influence from Death, Belphegor, Sarcófago, and Mayhem, the band pursued a raw, ritualistic extreme metal sound; scheduling conflicts and creative differences ultimately led to their permanent disbandment following a failed reunion attempt in 2020.
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.
Dark Apotheosis plays death metal from Belgrade, active since 2017 and elevating extreme metal to the divine status their name promises. Their compositions channel the Serbian death metal underground's growing confidence into authoritative, well-crafted brutality.
Dark Arcana is a death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2024. They deal arcane death metal from the French capital.
Dark Archive is a black/death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2017. They catalogue darkness through extreme metal from the Finnish capital.
El Paso's Dark Aria have been crafting progressive metal in the Chihuahuan Desert since 2007, weaving intricate arrangements and dynamic shifts through a sound that rewards patient listeners. Their work favors complexity and texture over blunt force.
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