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Dvshegvb plays black/death metal from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2025 and whose consonant-heavy name strips away readability much as their music strips away convention. Their deliberately unpronounceable name matches the dissonant hostility of their extreme metal.
DVVAD is a death/black metal band from Szeged, Hungary, formed in 2018. The band merge the ferocity of death metal with the atmospheric darkness of black metal.
Dwarrowdelf is an epic and atmospheric black metal project from Southampton, releasing through Northern Silence Productions since 2020. Their fourth full-length The Fallen Leaves (2024) continues the project's exploration of sorrow, struggle, and sweeping melodic black metal across a seven-track, 42-minute journey.
Dwell in Solitude is a depressive black metal project from Italy, formed in 2019. The project channels anguished and isolationist black metal steeped in despair.
Dweller in Darkness is a black metal band from Karlstad, Sweden, formed in 2024. The project channels dark black metal from the Varmland region.
Frederick, Maryland's Dweller in the Valley has navigated the crossroads of black, death, and doom metal since 2013, weaving together extremity and desolation into a sound that is as bleak as the genre tags suggest.
A Nashville, Tennessee black metal project formed in 2024, Dweller of Graves works within the genre's most austere traditions, conjuring a sound built around cold riffs, harsh vocals, and an unflinching commitment to darkness.
Dwellers of the Twilight is a black metal band from Paris, France, active since 2008. They dwell in the twilight between light and darkness through atmospheric black metal.
Dwelleth is a raw black metal project from the United Kingdom, formed in 2022. Their releases include a self-titled debut, Dwelleth II, and Doomsmoke, each channeling lo-fi raw black metal intensity.
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