Dawn of Apocalypse is a black and thrash metal band from Sala, Sweden, formed in 2016. The project fuses black metal with thrash velocity.

Dawn of Division is a black metal band from Ioannina, Greece, active since 2003. The band channel the raw aggression and darkness of the Greek black metal tradition.

Dawn of Nil is a progressive black/death metal band from Marseille, France, formed in 2019. They push extreme metal toward nihilistic progressive territory from the Mediterranean port.

Dawn of Relic is a melodic black/death metal band from Oulu, Finland, active since 1999. With over a quarter century of activity, they are veterans of the northern Finnish extreme metal scene.

Dawn of the Unleashed plays melodic death/black metal from the Freital/Dresden area in Saxony, blending Scandinavian-style melodic riffing with the raw atmosphere of black metal. Active since 2016, they channel the post-industrial landscape of eastern Germany into compositions that balance beauty and aggression.

Dawn Treader is an atmospheric/post-black metal and shoegaze band from London, England, formed in 2019. Named after the Narnia vessel, they voyage through atmospheric black metal and shimmering shoegaze.

Dawnfall is a Munich-based black metal act whose roots reach back to 1993, making them one of the Bavarian capital's earliest black metal projects. Three decades of activity have yielded a body of work steeped in the foundational spirit of the European second-wave black metal movement.

Dawning Eclipse is an Austrian atmospheric, depressive, and post-black metal project whose track "The Last Glimmering Light" serves as the band's most-heard composition. Their music is placed by listeners alongside depressive black metal acts such as Sombres Forêts and Sui Caedere, with an approach built around desolate, drifting song structures and bleak lyrical content.

Dawnpatrol is a blackened thrash metal band from Libourne, France, active since 2012. They deliver fierce blackened thrash from the Bordeaux region.