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Dark Twin is an industrial and progressive metal band from Uzhhorod, Ukraine, formed in 2015. The project blends industrial intensity with progressive complexity from the Transcarpathian region.
Dark Tyrants plays speed metal from Ornskoldsvik on the High Coast of northern Sweden, active since 2016. Their authoritarian name drives high-velocity compositions that rule through sheer speed and riff-driven dominance.
La Puente, California's Dark Union forges blackened death metal in the tradition of Los Angeles County's long underground extreme metal history, offering no concessions to accessibility since forming in 2013.
Dark Veil is a melodic death metal band from London, England, formed in 2024. They deliver veiled melodic death metal from the British capital.
Dark Vision is an extreme metal band from Piraeus and Athens, Greece, formed in 1997, evolving from a six-piece gothic/symphonic black metal configuration to their current black/death metal quartet. Their 2021 album Ianos, mixed at Stage One Studios in Germany and released through Cult of Parthenope, features stormy black metal with death elements, backed by a live history that includes sharing stages with Mayhem, Satyricon, Rotting Christ, and Septic Flesh.
Tacoma's Dark Voyager has been piloting fuzz-heavy stoner metal through the Pacific Northwest since 2014, where the region's weather and its weed culture make this genre feel entirely natural.
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.
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