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darkstep

Last updated: Tue Oct 28 2025 17:09:05 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

Darkstep represents the most intense and aggressive extreme of drum and bass, characterized by distorted basslines, harsh industrial textures, and relentless breakbeats that create an atmosphere of sonic brutality. Emerging from the harder edges of the drum and bass scene, it emphasizes darkness and aggression over danceability, often incorporating elements of industrial, metal, and experimental electronic music. The sound is defined by its uncompromising intensity, heavy sub-bass pressure, and apocalyptic atmospheres that push the boundaries of electronic music's extreme end.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
12		1977	Various Artists	Feel No Pain	darkstep drum and bass electronic electronica jungle techstep	techstep # 25
42		1977	Various Artists	Defiance	darkstep drum and bass electronic techstep	techstep # 47
22		1977	Various Artists	Lights and Wires	darkstep drum and bass dubstep neurofunk
41		1977	Various Artists	Solids_3	darkstep
52		1977	Various Artists	Alphacut 006	darkstep drum and bass idm jungle rave
21		1987	Various Artists	Symptomless Coma	darkstep
27		1997-08-18	Machine Code	Back To Tresor	darkstep drum and bass	technoid # 15
93		1997-09	Christoph De Babalon	If You're Into It I'm Out of It	breakcore dark ambient jungle	breakcore # 41 jungle # 53 illbient # 91
30		1998	300 baud	locomotive #433	ambient darkstep industrial
85		1998-04-20	Panacea	Twisted Designz	darkstep
40		2000-03-13	PNFA	Blaustich	breakbeat darkstep downtempo drum and bass techstep	techstep # 46
63		2001-04-02	Timecode	Moving Shadow 01.1	darkstep neurofunk techstep	techstep # 63
88		2002-08-02	Current Value	Beyond Digits	darkstep drum and bass electronic german techstep	techstep # 86
57		2003	Current Value	Herd Instinct / A.I.	darkstep drum and bass neurofunk
13		2003-06-23	Shyft	Beat Shyfter	breakbeat breakcore breaks darkstep drill and bass drum and bass electronic electronica funk gabber goa hardcore house idm industrial instrumental jazz orchestral piano tech house techno trance	drill and bass # 28
33		2003-07-23	Shyft	Drudge	ambient breakcore dark ambient darkstep drill and bass drum and bass electro house industrial instrumental jungle soundtrack techno trance	drill and bass # 53
25		2004	Thief	MUZ001 - Thief EP	bass darkstep dubstep electronic
84		2004-02	Black Sun Empire	Driving Insane	drum and bass	drum and bass # 37 neurofunk # 47 techstep # 62
87		2004-03-15	Black Sun Empire	Driving Insane LP	drum and bass
36		2004-04-15	Epsilon	now drill 3rd eye	breakcore darkcore darkstep digital hardcore drill and bass drill n bass drum and bass jungle	drill and bass # 56 drill n bass # 64 darkcore # 88
96		2005	Black Sun Empire	Cruel and Unusual	drum and bass
15		2005-03-07	Future Prophecies	Warlords Rising	drum and bass	drum and bass # 9
79		2005-04-21	DJ Darkstep	Dusty Filters	darkstep drum and bass
83		2005-10-10	Technical Itch	The Remix EP	darkstep drum and bass
28		2006-01-23	Gein	Hate / Father Of Lies	darkstep
97		2006-01-30	Counterstrike	From Beyond The Grave	darkstep drum and bass
71		2006-03-20	Concord Dawn	Chaos By Design	drum and bass
54		2006-03-23	Technical Itch	Therapy Session	darkstep drum and bass
18		2006-06	DJ Hidden	The Gehenna Device / Corrupt	darkstep
67		2006-09-06	Noisia	Therapy Session 3	darkstep downtempo drum and bass techstep	techstep # 65
48		2007	AK666	Underground stream	darkstep drum and bass electronic electronica techstep	techstep # 52
86		2007-03-26	Kryptic Minds & Leon Switch	Lost All Faith	darkstep neurofunk	neurofunk # 3
94		2007-06-04	Various Artists	Evil Has A Name	darkstep drum and bass electronic
4		2008-01-26	Skerror	The Unknown Forces	ambient broken beat cyberpunk dark ambient dark industrial darkstep downtempo electro electronic glitch hip-hop idm industrial instrumental metal microsound neoclassical noise psychill soundscape steampunk techstep	techstep # 11 dark industrial # 11 microsound # 41
10		2008-02-04	Skerror	Venture Fantastique	ambient broken beat cyberpunk dark ambient dark industrial darkstep downtempo electro electronic glitch hip-hop idm industrial instrumental metal microsound neoclassical noise psychill soundscape steampunk techstep	techstep # 19 dark industrial # 20 microsound # 49
1		2008-02-07	Skerror	Submersion	ambient broken beat cyberpunk dark ambient dark industrial darkstep downtempo electro electronic glitch hip-hop idm industrial instrumental metal microsound neoclassical noise psychill soundscape steampunk techstep	techstep # 1 dark industrial # 7 microsound # 34
7		2008-02-10	Skerror	Slime Quanta	ambient broken beat cyberpunk dark ambient dark industrial darkstep downtempo electro electronic glitch hip-hop idm industrial instrumental metal microsound neoclassical noise psychill soundscape steampunk techstep	techstep # 16 dark industrial # 16 microsound # 46
16		2008-02-12	Skerror	Junk Running	ambient broken beat cyberpunk dark ambient dark industrial darkstep downtempo electro electronic glitch hip-hop idm industrial instrumental metal microsound neoclassical noise psychill soundscape steampunk techstep	techstep # 27 dark industrial # 30 microsound # 59
11		2008-02-14	Skerror	Mahahakala	ambient broken beat cyberpunk dark ambient dark industrial darkstep downtempo electro electronic glitch haiti hip-hop idm industrial instrumental metal microsound neoclassical noise psychill soundscape steampunk techstep	dark industrial # 21 techstep # 23 haiti # 30 microsound # 53
6		2008-02-15	Skerror	Graviton Jungle	ambient animals broken beat cyberpunk dark ambient dark industrial darkstep downtempo electro electronic glitch hip-hop idm industrial instrumental jungle metal microsound neoclassical noise psychill soundscape steampunk techstep	techstep # 13 dark industrial # 14 animals # 15 microsound # 43
99		2008-03-04	Evol Intent	Era of Diversion	drum and bass idm darkstep
69		2008-06-24	Horion	No Fear Restriction	breakcore darkstep
92		2008-08-01	Limewax	The Kristall Weizen EP	darkstep electronic
3		2008-11	Sintech	Dark Soul	darkstep drum and bass electronic electronica jungle techstep	techstep # 10
32		2009	GodLikeMouse	Reflex Weaponry	darkstep drum and bass
35		2009-01-31	Current Value	Bravery / Echolot	darkstep
34		2009-04-22	Imprintz	CCK001	darkstep drum and bass jungle neurofunk techstep	techstep # 42
75		2009-05-19	Current Value	The Empowered Peace	drum and bass darkstep	techstep # 30
23		2009-07	MachineCode	Solitude / DogBite	darkstep
24		2009-07	Machinecode	Solitude / DogBite	darkstep
20		2009-08-18	Shyft	The Magnificent Metalloid Man EP	8-bit breakcore darkstep drill and bass drill n bass drum and bass dubstep gabber hardcore industrial industrial hardcore	industrial hardcore # 34 drill and bass # 40 drill n bass # 50
45		2009-09	Machinecode	Neodymium	darkstep technoid	technoid # 62
46		2009-09	MachineCode	Neodymium	darkstep technoid	technoid # 63
50		2009-10-09	SPL	SPL	darkstep drum and bass techstep	techstep # 53
58		2009-10-26	Current Value	Therapist / Overclock	darkstep
51		2009-11-23	Current Value	2012: The Day Of Silence	darkstep
43		2010	Mystification	BH001 - Mystification - Our World	darkstep jungle
73		2010	C.A.2K	Sampler 1	darkstep drum and bass neurofunk
64		2010-02-08	Machinecode	Recoded / Silicon Base	darkstep technoid	technoid # 74
65		2010-02-08	MachineCode	Recoded / Silicon Base	darkstep technoid	technoid # 75
60		2010-02-08	Current Value	Edge Of Dreams / Sphere Unknown	darkstep
89		2010-04-19	Current Value	Back to the Machine	darkstep technoid techstep	techstep # 88 technoid # 95
74		2010-04-26	The Panacea	Chiropteran	darkstep
44		2010-12-06	Current Value	WMD / Cryogen	darkstep
78		2011-02-14	Current Value	Hitman / Target	darkstep
90		2011-07-23	Loadstar	Berlin / Hit the Ground	british darkstep drum and bass electronic
82		2011-08-01	Current Value	Bruja / Discovered	darkstep
68		2011-09-19	Eye-D & DJ Hidden	Peer To Peer Pressure	darkstep techstep	techstep # 66
31		2011-12-17	Chaos Royale	You realize, this means war
61		2012-03-20	Underhill	Silent Siren	darkstep
80		2012-03-26	Zardonic	Vulgar Display Of Bass	bass darkstep dubstep industrial metal rock
17		2012-08-25	Limewax	M.O.T.D. / Invasion	darkstep
62		2012-11-22	Current Value	Quantum Physics	darkstep
72		2013-03-04	Machinecode	Under the Sun	darkstep
29		2013-04-28	MyXoMoPBL	Remaining Sense of Pain	breakcore darkstep idm swedish
66		2013-06-12	Counterstrike	THERAPY SESSION 7 BY PANACEA	darkstep drum and bass
98		2013-10-02	goreshit	rituals	darkstep
91		2013-11-05	Phuture Doom	Phuture Doom	brostep darkstep dubstep	brostep # 40
49		2013-11-18	Gridlok & Prolix	Project Trendkill	darkstep
14		2014-01-02	Paul Dee' Laek	Step '12	darkstep dubstep
59		2014-03-03	Machinecode	Velocity	darkstep
70		2014-03-10	Broken Note	Black Mirror	darkstep electronic
56		2016-04-15	Counterstrike	Abnormal Levels of Aggression	darkstep drum and bass
53		2016-07-15	Current Value	Polar Position / Northern Lights	darkstep
95		2017-05-05	Current Value	Deadly Toys	darkstep drum and bass jump up neurofunk	neurofunk # 49 jump up # 90
81		2017-05-05	Current Value	Guerilla 004	darkstep drum and bass
38		2017-05-08	Bethas	Drown	breakbeat breakcore darkstep drill and bass drum and bass	drill and bass # 57
76		2019-11-04	Broken Note	Exit The Void	breakcore darkstep drumstep dubstep instrumental	drumstep # 46
37		2019-12-18	Result	Manticore	darkstep
47		2019-12-23	Black Sun Empire	B Negative	darkstep drum and bass neurofunk
19		2020-04-10	Kaiju Soup	SpikeHxD꙳⁎✰⁴᛭❹₄ₑᵥᵣ࿐◌͛⁺	breakbeat cybergrind cyberpunk darkstep deconstructed club digital hardcore drum and bass gabber glitch hardcore idm lo-fi neurofunk nightcore sound collage trap metal	nightcore # 37
26		2020-04-17	maere	OBSOLESCE	darkstep
2		2023	Various Artists	Cyber Crunk Records - All tracks	darkstep electronic neurofunk techstep	techstep # 5
100		2023	Various Artists	Us Against The World	darkstep neurofunk	neurofunk # 90
77		2024-03-29	Christoph De Babalon	Ach, Mensch
55		2024-11-22	Christoph De Babalon	No Favours	darkstep techstep	techstep # 59
9			Skinshrink	Music Forged In Hate	breakbeat darkstep drum and bass dubstep electronica techstep	techstep # 18
5			Shattered Quartz	Broken	ambient darkstep ebm idm illbient
8			thepoisoner	Miasma	bass darkstep dubstep ethereal
39			Testla	Filthy Poor	brostep darkstep dubstep electronica glitch grime house progressive house techno

Related genres

• drum and bass
• electronic
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• techstep
• idm
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