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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Dysposium is a melodic black metal band from Klaipeda, Lithuania, formed in 2013. The project channels atmospheric and melodic black metal from the Lithuanian Baltic coast.
Dysterhet is a black metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2019. The project channels dark black metal from the Swedish capital.
Dystertid is a black metal, acoustic, and ambient project from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, active since 2009. They explore the span between black metal's ferocity and acoustic/ambient tranquility.
Albany, New York black metal and ambient project formed in 2025, Dysthanoxis explores the atmospheric space between raw black metal and textural ambient sound. Still in its earliest stages, the project suggests an interest in darkness as much sonically constructed as it is riff-driven.
Dysthen is a black metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2025. The project delivers atmospheric black metal.
Dysthymia is a black/doom metal and ambient project from Reykjavik, Iceland, formed in 2021. The project merge the darkness of black metal with the crushing slowness of doom and ambient textures.
Dysthymian is a depressive black metal band from Sweden, formed in 2025. The project channels anguished black metal.
Dysthymya plays black metal and ambient from Cluj-Napoca, active since 2021 and named after the clinical term for chronic depression. Their psychiatric reference frames their atmospheric compositions as sonic manifestations of persistent, low-grade despair.
Dystopia is a melodic black metal band from Nicosia, Cyprus, active since 2012 and combining black metal aggression with death metal heaviness and melodic sophistication. Their layered compositions balance blast-beating fury with atmospheric, contemplative passages.
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