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Dark Ravage is a black metal band from Vilnius, Lithuania, formed in 2004. One of the veteran black metal acts in the Baltic region, the project has delivered decades of dark extreme metal from the Lithuanian capital.
Dark Reality is a band from Mainz, Germany, formed in 2019, that evolved from death/folk metal into a folk metal/rock direction. Their sound bridges extreme metal's intensity with folk elements and melodic sensibilities.
Dark Red Dawn is a heavy/groove metal and hard rock band from Forchheim, Germany, formed in 2023. They blend crushing groove metal riffs with the swagger of hard rock.
Seymour, Tennessee's Dark Requiem work in black/thrash metal territory, a 2021 formation that brings the hills and hollers of East Tennessee an appropriately ominous and speed-driven sound.
A rural Ohio heavy metal band from West Mansfield, Dark Revenant have been at it since 2014, keeping traditional metal alive in a part of the state far from any major scene but no less committed for it.
Dark Revenge started as a melodic death metal act in the Siberian university city of Tomsk before evolving toward progressive metal and metalcore. Active since 2011, their stylistic journey traces an arc from Scandinavian melodeath influence toward more complex, contemporary territory.
Dark Rhapsody is a death and thrash metal band from Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. The project fuses death metal with thrash velocity.
Dark Ride is a melodic death metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2020. The project channels emotionally charged melodic death metal from the Polish capital.
Chicago's Dark Ritual have been delivering heads-down thrash metal since 2015, part of a city scene that has long nurtured underground metal with genuine intensity and minimal compromise.
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