Dark Forest is a heavy/power metal band from Dudley, England, active since 2011. They deliver epic, folk-tinged heavy/power metal from the Black Country.

Bavarian black metal outfit Dark Fortress formed in 1994 and steadily evolved from a raw, melodically aggressive debut through increasingly progressive and technically sophisticated territory, blending metaphysical horror, occult spirituality, and sophisticated compositional ambition across seven studio albums released primarily through Century Media. Highlighted by standout records Stab Wounds (2004) and Séance (2005), and featuring cover art by Travis Smith, the band distinguished themselves as one of Germany's most serious and intellectually rigorous black metal acts before disbanding in 2023.

Stockholm's Dark Funeral are one of the supreme exemplars of Swedish melodic black metal, founded in 1993 by guitarists Blackmoon and Lord Ahriman and unleashed upon the world with their 1996 debut The Secrets of the Black Arts — an album widely hailed as one of the first anthemic melodic black metal records and a landmark of the Scandinavian second wave. With seven full-length albums and a reputation for uncompromising Satanic extremity and blazing, precision-engineered guitar work, they remain among the most prominent and unrelenting acts the genre has produced.

Dark Fury is a black metal band from Wroclaw, Poland, formed in 2013. The project delivers aggressive and uncompromising black metal from the Lower Silesian capital.

Dark Fusion plays electronic/industrial death metal from Bucharest, active since 2016 and merging synthetic textures with extreme metal's organic aggression. Their name describes the literal fusion of electronic and heavy elements that defines their cold, mechanized approach.

Dark Future is a death-doom metal band from Kladno, Czech Republic, formed in 2017 and blending death metal's intensity with doom's oppressive pacing. Their compositions stretch across extended structures, building atmosphere through deliberate, crushing heaviness.

Dark Gates is a melodic death metal band from Almería, Spain, formed in 2017. They deliver powerful melodic death metal from Andalusia's southeastern coast.

Dark Goat is a Catanian blackened death metal and grindcore act that blends the ferocity of black metal with punishing death metal brutality, wrapping it in gloomy atmospheres and razor-sharp riffs. Their prolific catalog spans releases like God is Dead, Nocturnus Impaler, and a cover of Mayhem's "Freezing Moon," anchored by lyrics fixated on darkness, blasphemy, and destruction.

Dark Graves is a melodic death/doom metal band from Sønderborg, Denmark, formed in 2018. They explore melodic heaviness through the lens of death and doom metal.