Dark Affliction is a Greek black metal and post-metal project led by multi-instrumentalist Panagiotis Christias, with contributions from violinist Nikos Mavridis, vocalist Anastasia Kiritsi, and drummer Eleni Nota. Their 2024 concept album Five Stages of Grief structures six tracks around the stages of grief — denial, hate, bargaining, depression, and acceptance — recorded at NoiseBox Studio in Patras.

Dark Age of Ruin plays black metal from the Azores, Portugal's remote Atlantic archipelago, formed in 2022 and representing one of the few extreme metal acts operating from these volcanic islands. Their isolated mid-ocean setting lends genuine remoteness to atmospheric black metal.

Dark Archive is a black/death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2017. They catalogue darkness through extreme metal from the Finnish capital.

Dark Art is a death/black metal band from Bremen, Germany, formed in 2019. They craft dark, extreme metal that merges the brutality of death metal with black metal's atmospheric menace.

Dark Calamity is a solo blackened death metal project from Braunau am Inn, Austria, created by a musician who records under the alias Mortifer. Beginning with a melodic black metal style touched with symphonics, the project evolved toward more brutal, relentless extremity, as heard across releases such as Sermon of Satan, Blasphemar, and Apocalypsis Mortis — all with lyrical themes spanning Satanism, blasphemy, and mythology.

Dark Conspiracy is a black and death metal band from the Netherlands, formed in 2025. The project delivers dark extreme metal from the Dutch underground.

Dark Divination is a black metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 2024. They divine darkness through black metal from greater Helsinki.

Dark Divinity is a black metal band from Cambridgeshire, England, formed in 2020. They channel divine darkness through black metal from the English fens.

Dark Domination has been a fixture of Riga's black metal scene since 2006, forging nearly two decades of dark, aggressive compositions in the Baltic tradition. Their commanding name speaks to the totalitarian aesthetic that pervades their atmospheric black metal.