Dawn of Decline is a death metal band from Paris, France, active since 2010. They deliver declining death metal darkness from the French capital.

Dawn of Demise is a death metal band from Silkeborg, Denmark, formed in 2022. They deliver brutal, uncompromising death metal from central Jutland.

Dawn of Disease were a Osnabrück, Germany melodic death metal band active from 2003 to 2020, producing five studio albums that combined the abrasive Swedish death metal tradition with a more modern and hook-laden melodic sensibility, drawing comparisons to Entombed and Dew-Scented. Though they disbanded in 2020 after vocalist Tomasz Wisniewski's departure, their final albums — including Worship the Grave (2016) and Procession of Ghosts (2019) — represented some of the strongest melodic death metal to emerge from the German scene, with former members subsequently forming Hiraes.

Dawn of Division is a black metal band from Ioannina, Greece, active since 2003. The band channel the raw aggression and darkness of the Greek black metal tradition.

Dawn of Memories plays progressive and melodic death metal from Modena, balancing intricate arrangements with emotionally resonant melody lines. Their songwriting navigates the space between technical death metal complexity and the accessibility of the Gothenburg melodeath school.

Dawn of Neptune is a melodic death metal band from Mikkeli, Finland, formed in 2016. They explore oceanic themes through Finnish melodic death metal.

Dawn of Nil is a progressive black/death metal band from Marseille, France, formed in 2019. They push extreme metal toward nihilistic progressive territory from the Mediterranean port.

Dawn of Obliteration is a death metal band from Hamburg, Germany, active since 2013. Recorded at Rotten Stench Studios, their sound has been compared to a collision of Cannibal Corpse and Bolt Thrower, delivering pure old-school death metal devastation.

Dawn of Oblivion is a gothic metal band from Helsingborg, Sweden, formed in 1997. One of Sweden's veteran gothic metal acts.