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Dark War was a black metal band from Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil, whose lyrical themes encompassed anti-Christianity, hate, and death. The band operated as an unsigned independent act and has since split up. They are catalogued in the Encyclopaedia Metallum under ID 78068.
Dark Warrior is a thrash metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, formed in 2014, featuring vocalist and guitarist Ivan DW alongside guitarist Adrian Scoppe. The band released their debut album "The End of Peace" in 2015 and followed it nearly a decade later with "Sick World" in 2024.
Massachusetts's Dark Was the Night takes its cues from black metal's most desolate and doom-laden corners, building an oppressive sound around the kind of New England bleakness that inspired such music in the first place, active since 2012.
A Missouri black metal act operating since 2019, Dark Watcher keeps its location vague and its sound uncompromising — a solitary presence in the American Midwest whose work prioritizes atmosphere over scene visibility.
Dark Whisper was a heavy metal band from Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The band's lyrical themes focused on warfare and death, and they operated as an unsigned independent act. They are listed in the Encyclopaedia Metallum and have since split up.
Southfield, Michigan's Dark Winter has sharpened its melodic black metal craft since 2014, and few locations in the continental US provide better inspiration for the genre's themes than the winters along Lake Michigan.
Dark Wisdom is a black metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, formed in 2007 under the name Dark Wisdom Horde. Operating under the banner of Chivo Negro Productions and exploring themes of war, demons, and paganism, they have released multiple full-lengths including "Blood of Heroes" (2012), "Hymns of Death and Delightful Histories of Hate" (2019), and "The Endless Darkness of the Cosmos" (2023).
Dark Wish is a heavy/thrash metal band from Drancy, France, formed in 2023. They deliver heavy/thrash from the Parisian suburbs.
Dark Witch is a Palermitan thrash metal band founded in 2015, dealing in aggressive, riff-heavy thrash rooted in the Sicilian underground scene. Their occult-tinged name hints at thematic interests in the darker corners of thrash's lyrical tradition.
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