Dark Majesty is a black metal act from Jyvaskyla in central Finland, formed in 2024 and joining one of the world's most saturated national black metal scenes. Their regal name signals an imposing, commanding approach to a genre Finland has mastered across generations.

Dark Matter Annihilation is a black metal band from Rotterdam, Netherlands, formed in 2018. The project channels atmospheric black metal from the Dutch port city's underground.

Dark Messiah is a Hellenic black metal band from Kozani, Greece, formed in the early 2000s, playing fast, aggressive, warlike black metal enriched by epic atmospheric passages. Their discography spans from the Lucifer's Command demo through Immortal Battlefield to the Echoes of War album, and the band released tribute tracks for guitarist Olethros after his serious accident in 2012.

Dark Methodism is a Prague-based black metal act active since 2013, channeling occult themes through methodical, carefully constructed compositions that prioritize atmosphere over chaos. Their name suggests a systematic approach to darkness, and their music delivers black metal with architectural precision.

Dark Monument is a Munich-based black metal act formed in 2023, erecting towering compositions of atmospheric extremity in the tradition of the German black metal scene. Their monolithic name suits a sound that aims for the imposing and immovable.

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 Phoenix plays black metal from Portugal, active since 2015 and channeling the mythological bird of regeneration through flames into atmospheric, rebirth-themed compositions. Their fire-and-resurrection imagery adds a cyclical, transformative dimension to their black metal.

Dark Plague is a black metal band from Lille, France, active since 2014. They spread pestilent black metal from northern France.

Dark Portrait is a symphonic black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2016 and releasing through the XPX label. Their debut A Harrowing Atrocity (2016) unfolds twelve tracks of atmospheric, emotionally charged symphonic black metal with classical elements, recorded at CFN Recording Studio in a limited digipack edition of 250 copies.