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Darkera is a black/death metal band from Hamina, Finland, formed in 2015. They deliver extreme metal from the southeastern Finnish border region.
Darkest End is a melodic death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2019. Their debut EP Winter's Blood (2019) delivers five tracks of atmospheric melodic death metal, with songs like Raven Cry and Cybele drawing on mythological themes.
Darkest Nightfall is a melodic death metal band from Cambridge, England, formed in 2020. They deliver nocturnal melodic death metal from the university city.
Darkfall is a Graz-based thrash death metal band active since 1995, built around what they call "high-quality and uncompromising Thrashed Death Metal." Their catalog includes albums Road to Redemption, At the End of Times, and Thrashing Death Squad, establishing them as one of the longer-running extremists in the Styrian metal scene.
Darkfaring has been forging black/death metal from the port city of Trieste since 1997, making them one of the longer-running extreme metal acts in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. Their nearly three decades of activity speak to a deep commitment to the intersection of black and death metal traditions.
Darkified plays death/black metal from Soderoping in Ostergotland, active since 2018. Their name's transformation-into-darkness suits music that merges death metal's crushing physicality with black metal's atmospheric malice.
Darkmess is a melodic death metal and deathcore band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2019. The band fuse melodic death metal hooks with the aggression of modern deathcore.
Darkness by Oath is a melodic death metal band from Arrasate-Mondragón, Basque Country, Spain, active since 2009. They deliver powerful Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the Basque heartland.
Darkreverie is a black metal project from Olten, Switzerland, founded in 2012 and now driven solely by D.P.F. after a two-year hiatus. Centered on themes of black art and dark magick, releases like 'Isis-Lupus-Brigit' and 'Black Arts' channel occult darkness through solo black metal compositions.
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