Dark Trap
Dark trap is trap music with a grim, horror-tinged mood, using minor-key melodies, distorted 808 bass and lyrics about dark, despairing subjects.
Producers layer eerie pads, distorted synth lines and heavy reverb over gritty, sometimes blown-out 808s, with the usual trap kicks, snares and fast hi-hats underneath. The style took shape in the early 2010s as a moodier, more atmospheric offshoot of trap. It is gloomier than mainstream trap and less extreme than trap metal, which adds screamed vocals and metal influences.
Artists it is known for: $uicideboy$, Night Lovell.
- Family
- Hip-Hop & Rap
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Early 2010s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 7%
About 5,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have dark trap among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Dark Trap artists
$uicideboy$
Denzel Curry
Xavier Wulf
Chris Travis
bbno$
BONES
Ghostemane
Pouya
Black Smurf
Night LovellThe dark trap artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.