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Minneapolis black metal act Datura Dread carry the bleak legacy of the Twin Cities underground into the new decade, conjuring dread-soaked atmospheres with a city-specific coldness that only the upper Midwest seems to produce.
Datura Metel is a depressive black metal project from France, formed in 2016. Named after the toxic plant, they explore despair through raw depressive black metal.
Datura Stramonium is a symphonic black metal band from O Grove, Spain, formed in 2017. Named after the toxic plant, they blend symphonic grandeur with black metal's poison from Galicia's coast.
Dauden is a black metal project from Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium, and the sole member is also the drummer of Norwegian black metal project Mork. The 2020 debut full-length My Soul Will Be Damned Forever, released on Dominance of Darkness Records, runs nearly 48 minutes across eight tracks of punishing, traditional Norwegian-influenced black metal.
Detroit's Dauden i Mørke — "Death in Darkness" in Danish — have been weaving melodic black metal with Nordic grandeur since 2010, a surprising and committed presence in the Motor City's underground.
Daughters of Sophia is an atmospheric/post-black metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2015. They explore gnostic themes through expansive post-black metal from southeastern France.
Dausa is a black, doom, and sludge metal band from Vilnius, Lithuania, formed in 2019. The project merges black metal's atmosphere with doom and sludge metal's crushing weight from the Baltic underground.
Dauw is a black metal band from the Netherlands, formed in 2020. The project channels atmospheric and ethereal black metal from the Dutch underground.
Florence, Kentucky's Daurinn — borrowing an Old Norse word for the dead — have conjured austere black metal out of the Bluegrass State since 2011, a long-running underground operation with a commitment to the raw and uncompromising.
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