Darkened is a thrash metal band from Heckmondwike, England, formed in 2019. They deliver darkened thrash from West Yorkshire.

Darker It Gets is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from the South West Flanders region of Belgium, drawing members from the Kortrijk and Roeselare area's converging hardcore and metal scenes. The band's sound fuses melodic Scandinavian death metal riffing with metalcore structures, occupying a crossover space well-represented in Belgian extreme metal.

Darkest Hand is a groove/thrash metal band from West Yorkshire, England, formed in 2020. They deliver dark-handed grooves and thrash from northern England.

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.

Darkhat is a thrash metal band from Waltershausen, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver straightforward, riff-heavy thrash with no-frills aggression.

Darknation is a heavy/thrash metal band from the Sens/Dijon area of France, active since 2002. With over two decades of activity, they are veterans of the Burgundian metal scene.

Darkpast is a thrash metal band from Minsk Mazowiecki and Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2014. The project delivers aggressive thrash metal from the Mazovia region.

Darkseeds is a thrash metal band from Bayonne in the French Basque Country, active since 2013 and planting seeds of aggression along the Atlantic coast. Their sound channels classic thrash velocity through the cultural richness of the Franco-Basque borderlands.

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.