Dark Nativity is a doom metal band from Styria, Austria, who released the EP Mercury in 2018 and a self-titled full-length in 2024. Their slow, heavy approach — heard on tracks like "Vertigo," "Wizard," and "Coventry" — sits within the traditional European doom tradition.

Dark Nazarian plays blackened doom metal from the oil city of Surgut in western Siberia, formed in 2022. Their Arctic-adjacent location lends genuine cold to compositions that merge black metal's atmospheric darkness with doom's glacial pace.

Dark Nightmare is an epic heavy metal band from Grevena, Greece, formed in 2016 and signed to Eat Metal Records. Their debut album Tortured Souls (2016) delivers nine tracks of sweeping epic metal across nearly an hour, drawing comparisons to acts like Solstice and Wytch Hazel.

Dark Nova is a heavy and power metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2023. The band channel the melodic intensity and dual-guitar attack of classic European power metal.

Dark Ocean Circle plays stoner metal and rock from Stockholm, active since 2021 and channeling the depths of Nordic seas through fuzz-laden, groove-heavy compositions. Their oceanic name suits the dark, swelling character of their heavy, repetitive sound.

Dark Oceans We Cry is a melodic death metal band from Galicia, Spain, active since 2013. They deliver emotive melodic death metal inspired by the vast Atlantic.

Dark Opera is a death metal band from Saarijärvi, Finland, active since 2003. They play dramatic death metal from the Finnish lake district.

Dark Origins is a stoner/doom metal act from Helsinki formed in 2022, exploring the primal, heavy roots of rock music through fuzz-laden riffs and hypnotic grooves. Their name points backward to the dawn of heavy music, channeling early Sabbath and Pentagram through Finnish gloom.

Dark Passage is a Turin-based heavy metal act whose output channels the spirit of classic heavy metal through a contemporary Italian lens. Their riff-driven material delivers muscular guitar work and powerful vocals that draw from the deep well of European traditional metal.