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One of South Dakota's more tenacious metal exports, Dark Nation have been playing death/thrash out of Rapid City since 2002 — over two decades of riff-driven aggression from the northern plains.
Dark Nativity is a doom metal band from Styria, Austria, who released the EP Mercury in 2018 and a self-titled full-length in 2024. Their slow, heavy approach — heard on tracks like "Vertigo," "Wizard," and "Coventry" — sits within the traditional European doom tradition.
Dark Nazarian plays blackened doom metal from the oil city of Surgut in western Siberia, formed in 2022. Their Arctic-adjacent location lends genuine cold to compositions that merge black metal's atmospheric darkness with doom's glacial pace.
Dark Night is a Christian heavy metal band from Santa Maria da Vitória, Bahia, Brazil, formed in 2008 and combining dark, horror-influenced aesthetics with an explicitly Christian lyrical perspective. The band has released a prolific run of independent albums including "Night of Halloween" (2011), "Cemetery Porter" (2012), "Tales After Midnight" (2013), "Zombie" (2014), "Funeral Night" (2015), and "The Crow" (2017), many of which were later remastered and reissued through Christian Metal Underground.
Dark Nightmare is an epic heavy metal band from Grevena, Greece, formed in 2016 and signed to Eat Metal Records. Their debut album Tortured Souls (2016) delivers nine tracks of sweeping epic metal across nearly an hour, drawing comparisons to acts like Solstice and Wytch Hazel.
Dark Nova is a heavy and power metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2023. The band channel the melodic intensity and dual-guitar attack of classic European power metal.
Dark Ocean Circle plays stoner metal and rock from Stockholm, active since 2021 and channeling the depths of Nordic seas through fuzz-laden, groove-heavy compositions. Their oceanic name suits the dark, swelling character of their heavy, repetitive sound.
Chicago's Dark Ocean Society draw from doom, sludge, and post-metal equally, crafting music that feels as heavy as Lake Michigan in winter and as expansive as the city's industrial skyline.
Dark Oceans We Cry is a melodic death metal band from Galicia, Spain, active since 2013. They deliver emotive melodic death metal inspired by the vast Atlantic.
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