DarkCrystals is a gothic metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2016. The project crafts dark gothic metal from the Ukrainian capital.

Darken My Grief plays black/death/gothic metal from Sibiu in Transylvania, active since 2017 and channeling the dramatic landscapes of the Carpathian Mountains into multi-genre compositions. Their request to intensify sorrow speaks to music that finds beauty in darkness across three related genres.

Darkendome is an atmospheric black and gothic metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 1998 through a merger of members from Natural Disaster (death metal) and Begrimmed (black metal). The band held a prominent position on the Croatian black metal scene in the late 1990s and early 2000s, releasing albums including Odlazak Hegemona Kopna and ...of Pride and Redemption.

Darklands plays gothic/doom metal from Sundsvall in northern Sweden, active since 2013. Their Bauhaus-referencing name connects them to the gothic tradition while their doom-metal weight anchors their sound in Scandinavian heaviness.

Darkonelly is a gothic metal band from Dijon, France, formed in 2015. They deliver dark gothic metal from the capital of Burgundy.

Darkshines plays gothic/thrash metal from Kragujevac in central Serbia, formed in 2024 and creating an unusual genre pairing that merges gothic metal's dark atmospherics with thrash's velocity. This combination creates a distinctive sound that draws from both genres' emotional intensity.

Darkwell is a gothic and symphonic metal band from Innsbruck, founded in 1999 by bassist Roland Wurzer and guitarist Roman Wienicke around what they describe as "the celebration of the dark sensualism." Albums Suspiria (2000), Conflict of Interest (2002), Metatron (2004), Moloch (2016), and Triste Saison (2021) document a long career in the female-fronted European gothic metal tradition, earning the band more than 850,000 scrobbles on Last.fm.

Darzamat is a symphonic gothic black metal band from Katowice, Poland, formed in 1996. One of Poland's veteran extreme metal acts, the project merges symphonic grandeur with gothic and black metal darkness.

Das Letzte is a melodic death/gothic metal band from the Cambs/Schwerin area of Germany, formed in 2022. They fuse the melodic hooks of Gothenburg-style death metal with gothic metal's dark romanticism.