Dark electro is a genre of electronic music, developed in the mid-1990s in central Europe. The term describes groups such as yelworC and Placebo Effect, and was first used in December 1992 with the album announcement of Brainstorming, yelworC's debut. The style was inspired by the electro-industrial of The Klinik and Skinny Puppy. Compositions included horror soundscapes, and grunts or distorted vocals. YelworC were a music group from Munich, formed in 1988. They laid the foundations of the dark electro movement in the early 1990s, and were the first artist on the German label Celtic Circle Productions. In subsequent years, dark electro was displaced by techno-influenced styles such as aggrotech and futurepop. Grendel revived the style with their song "Zombie Nation." Other groups to practice the style included Trial, Evil's Toy, GGFH (Disease) and Ice Ages.

Artists belong to the genre

	ESC	Country: Portugalia / Portugal / Date of establishing : 2005
	Ext!ze	Country: Niemcy / Germany / Date of establishing : 2007
	FabrikC	Country: Niemcy / Germany / Date of establishing : 2005-05
	FGFC820	Country: USA / Date of establishing : 2004
	Flesh	Country: Francja / France / Date of establishing : 2012
	Formalin	Country: Niemcy / Germany / Date of establishing : 2010
	Freakangel	Country: Estonia / Date of establishing : 2009
	Ginger Snap5	Country: Ukraina / Odessa / Date of establishing : 2004
	God Module	Country: USA / Date of establishing : 1999
	Grendel	Country: Holandia / Netherlands / Date of establishing : 1997
	H.Exe	Country: Polska / Poland / Date of establishing : 2010
	Heimataerde	Country: Niemcy / Germany / Date of establishing : 2004