Dark Apotheosis plays death metal from Belgrade, active since 2017 and elevating extreme metal to the divine status their name promises. Their compositions channel the Serbian death metal underground's growing confidence into authoritative, well-crafted brutality.

Dark Arcana is a death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2024. They deal arcane death metal from the French capital.

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 Asphyxia plays death metal from Hertfordshire, active since 2001 and one of the longer-running death metal acts in the southeast English underground. Their two-plus decades of suffocating brutality have earned them a committed following within the UK extreme metal community.

Dark Awake is a melodic thrash/death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2008. They deliver melodic aggression through the lens of thrash and death metal.

Dark Coffin is a death metal band from Killarney, Ireland, formed in 2025. The band deliver crushing death metal from the Irish underground.

Dark Colony is a death metal band from Tentlingen, Switzerland, built around a sci-fi mythology of an alien crash-landing that birthed their sonic chaos. Tragically losing vocalist Phil Veluz in 2024, the five-piece delivered crushing Swiss death metal through tight, riff-heavy compositions.

Dark Comes Forth plays melodic death metal from Sweden, formed in 2025 and continuing the nation's inexhaustible tradition of melodeath excellence. Their emergence-of-darkness name drives compositions that pair Swedish-style melody with death metal's essential aggression.