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Butterflies (2025)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Sonic Brew 20th Anniversary Blend 5.99 - 5.19 (2019)
05/29 @ O2 Forum Kentish Town, London
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Evidence (2023)
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One of South Dakota's more tenacious metal exports, Dark Nation have been playing death/thrash out of Rapid City since 2002 — over two decades of riff-driven aggression from the northern plains.
Haverhill, Massachusetts' Dark Passenger pull from black, death, and doom metal without committing fully to any single mode, the resulting sound a dense, genre-blurring darkness that's been building since 2019.
Los Angeles' Dark Prophecy have been forging blackened death/thrash metal since 2013, drawing on the city's legacy of extreme metal extremity to craft music that's technically sharp and unrelentingly aggressive.
Operating out of Oakford, Pennsylvania since 2020, Dark Prophet deliver death/thrash metal with a directness that suits the suburban Philadelphia underground — no frills, just riffs.
Placentia, California's Dark Prophet throw groove metal into their death/thrash foundation, the added pocket and midrange weight distinguishing them from more straightforward acts in the same lane.
Tampa's Dark Sermon occupies the brutal crossroads where blackened death metal crashes into deathcore, channeling the city's storied death metal legacy through modern extremity since 2013.
Chicago's Dark Spectrum has refined a melodic blackened death metal sound across more than a decade, threading razor-edged riffs through sweeping melodic architecture in a city with a rich tradition of extreme music.
Miami's Dark Tomorrow has been fusing melodic black and death metal since 2010, grafting Scandinavian melody onto Florida's death metal DNA with a sound that reflects the city's peculiar extremity — humid, relentless, and ornate.
La Puente, California's Dark Union forges blackened death metal in the tradition of Los Angeles County's long underground extreme metal history, offering no concessions to accessibility since forming in 2013.
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