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Dispersed Ashes is a funeral doom/black metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2018. They create vast, glacially slow funeral doom intertwined with black metal's bleakness.
Dispnea is a depressive black metal band from Naples, Italy, formed in 2019. The project's name, meaning 'breathlessness,' reflects its suffocating and anguished approach to atmospheric black metal.
Redwood City, California's Disruption emerged in 2022 as part of a new wave of West Coast black metal practitioners, carving their niche from the Bay Area's fertile underground. Young but focused, they approach the genre with the cold, abrasive conviction that black metal demands, drawing on Northern California's increasingly active extreme metal scene.
Dissenting Minds is an atmospheric black and post-metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2019 by George Triantafyllidis (ex-Revolted Masses), Spyros Vasilakis (Fallen Arise, Lycans), and Anastasis Katsos (Lycans). Their 2021 debut concept album Fly in the Face of God delivers eight tracks of heavy black metal infused with death and post-metal elements, released in a limited digipack edition of 250 copies.
An avant-garde black metal entity from Antwerp signed to Brucia Records, Dissolve Patterns released their self-titled debut in April 2022 and earned attention for merging black metal aggression with progressive structures, jazz influences, and the cello of bandmember Annabel as a central melodic voice. Their lyrics draw on ancient symbolism, folkloric tales, and goddess-centered imagery, threading conceptual depth through a relentlessly harrowing sonic assault.
Dissonanz is a black metal band from Germany, formed in 2019. They explore dissonant, unsettling black metal textures.
Disseque is a raw black metal band from Russia, formed in 2019. The project channels lo-fi and uncompromising raw black metal.
Distant is a symphonic folk black metal band from Uddevalla, Sweden, formed in 2017. The project blends folk and symphonic elements with black metal.
Distant Garden is a black metal project based in the UK and France, operating under the Wolf & Raven banner. Their releases Not the End, Never the End and the self-titled Distant Garden draw from the atmospheric and lone-wolf traditions of European black metal.
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