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To Take Your Place (2022)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Washington State's Dark Sea Dream has spent over a decade dragging sludge and doom through post-metal's expansive landscapes, constructing slow-burning pieces that feel as wide and grey as the Pacific Northwest coastline.
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.
A fresh Los Angeles outfit launched in 2025, Dark Shift walks the line between heavy metal and hard rock with the kind of arena-ready confidence that the LA scene has always cultivated.
Out of Front Royal, Virginia, Dark Sorcerer blends black metal's malice with crossover thrash's d-beat stomp and hardcore edge — a chaotic three-way collision that has been building since 2019.
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Cincinnati's Dark Soul brings a groove metal punch to the Ohio underground, rolling out thick, mid-tempo riffs built for headbanging since the band formed in 2021.
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.
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Portland's Dark Spire merges the suffocating weight of doom metal with black metal's icy hostility, a combination that fits naturally in a city whose overcast skies and damp chill seem purpose-built for this kind of music, formed in 2022.
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