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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Dark Intentions is a death metal band from Bornholm, Denmark, formed in 2021. They deliver dark, heavy death metal from the remote Baltic island.
Dark Interment plays black metal from Penza in the Volga region, active since 2006 and among the longer-running black metal acts in central Russia. Their burial-themed name drives two decades of atmospheric compositions steeped in funereal darkness.
Dark Intervals is a heavy/doom metal band from Oulu, Finland, active since 2011. They explore dark sonic intervals through heavy and doom metal from northern Finland.
Dark Is the Water is a stoner/doom/post-metal/rock band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2016. They blend multiple heavy styles into dark, aquatic soundscapes from the second city.
Dark Isolation is a one-person ambient black metal project from the São Paulo state city of Valinhos, Brazil, formed in 2009. The project blends oppressive black metal with dark ambient textures around themes of suffering, sorrow, and death. Releases include the albums "Nebel Leichenhalle" and "The Fragrance from Decomposed Flowers," as well as the 2024 EP "Remnants of Distress."
A New York heavy/power metal act with roots going back to 2014, Dark Knight deal in the kind of muscular, hook-driven metal that nods to classic American power metal without apology.
Born in the Bronx in 2016, Dark Knights of the Soul fuse heavy and doom metal into something that carries the weight of New York City's streets — slow-burning, massive, and spiritually bleak.
Dark Komet is an industrial metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2024. They deliver mechanized heaviness from the Finnish capital.
Dark Kristal plays death metal from Russia, active since 2020 and channeling crystalline darkness into crushing compositions. Their fantasy-spelling name adds a mystical dimension to straightforward death metal brutality.
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