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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Déçu is an atmospheric black metal/ambient project from Occitanie, France, formed in 2017. Their name meaning 'disappointed,' they create immersive atmospheric black metal.
Dodsfard is an atmospheric black metal band from Vaxjo, Sweden, formed in 2012. The project channels ethereal atmospheric black metal from the Smaland region.
Doppelganger plays atmospheric black metal from Roslavl in Smolensk Oblast, active since 2014. Their doppelganger name — the uncanny double — channels the horror of encountering one's own ghostly reflection into atmospheric compositions of unsettling beauty.
Formed in 2025 in Tupelo, Mississippi, Dùvraith works in the atmospheric black metal tradition, using cold, expansive textures and depressive undertones to build immersive soundscapes. A new arrival in the American atmospheric black metal scene, the project emerges from an otherwise rare corner of the South for this style.
Düsterdraußen is an atmospheric black metal band from Osnabrück, Germany, formed in 2015. Their name meaning 'dark outside,' they create immersive atmospheric black metal steeped in the darkness of nature.
Dzonslovs is an anti-fascist black metal project from London, formed in 2024. Their releases Doodskalm, Asgrauw, and Anti-fascistische Volksliederen channel raw black metal with an explicitly anti-fascist political stance.
Trading in pure metallic intensity, this atmospheric black metal and black metal act from Italy traffics in icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Since 2021, they've built a catalog that reflects Italy's underrated but thriving metal community.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels atmospheric black metal and black metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 2016, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
A Portland atmospheric black metal act that emerged in 2023, Earthen Altar works within a tradition the Pacific Northwest helped build — vast, bleak, and evocative of landscapes that dwarf the people moving through them.
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