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Dark Season was a symphonic metal band from Teresina, Piauí, Brazil, one of the few acts representing the genre in the country's northeast. The band was signed to Evil Rise Enterprise and explored themes of darkness, hatred, and human cruelty. They are now split-up and listed on Encyclopaedia Metallum under ID 10976.
Dark Seasons is a doom metal act from Albenga on the Ligurian coast, crafting slow, brooding compositions that trade velocity for gravitational heaviness. Their sound draws from the European doom tradition, emphasizing sustained chords and funereal pacing.
Dark Seazon is an industrial metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2023 from material originally recorded in 2008 as a side project. Their debut Conflict delivers dark industrial metal with thrash elements, blastbeats, chugging riffs, doomy grooves, and harmonized leads across four tracks.
Dark Seducer is a blackened thrash metal band from Padre Hurtado, in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, signed to Sick Rites Records. Their debut EP 'Divinidad Mortal', released on February 11, 2023, was produced and mixed by Luis Zuñiga at Sala Soul Music in Peñaflor, with drums tracked at Pajarera Estudio in Isla de Maipo.
Dark Sensation is a death metal band from Brussels, Belgium, formed in 2002 and active with interruptions into the 2010s. The band contributed tracks to Belgian and French metal compilations, representing a steady presence in the Brussels extreme metal community across more than a decade.
Tampa's Dark Sermon occupies the brutal crossroads where blackened death metal crashes into deathcore, channeling the city's storied death metal legacy through modern extremity since 2013.
Dark Serpent merges death metal's guttural extremity with the hyperkinetic tempo of grindcore, producing short, savage bursts of sonic violence. Their Italian underground roots show in a raw production style that prioritizes visceral impact over studio polish.
Dark Shaman is a stoner/doom metal act from Syracuse, Sicily, formed in 2023 and channeling the sun-scorched heaviness of the Mediterranean through fuzz-drenched riffs and hypnotic repetition. Their sound evokes ritualistic, psychedelic doom in the tradition of Electric Wizard and Sleep.
A fresh Los Angeles outfit launched in 2025, Dark Shift walks the line between heavy metal and hard rock with the kind of arena-ready confidence that the LA scene has always cultivated.
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