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 Blade is a heavy metal band from Cegled, Hungary, formed in 2023. The band deliver classic heavy metal with the energy of the Hungarian underground metal scene.

Dark Buddha Rising is a psychedelic drone/sludge/doom metal band from Laitila, Finland, active since 2014. They create massive, hypnotic ritual doom that merges psychedelia with crushing heaviness.

Dark Calamity is a solo blackened death metal project from Braunau am Inn, Austria, created by a musician who records under the alias Mortifer. Beginning with a melodic black metal style touched with symphonics, the project evolved toward more brutal, relentless extremity, as heard across releases such as Sermon of Satan, Blasphemar, and Apocalypsis Mortis — all with lyrical themes spanning Satanism, blasphemy, and mythology.

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