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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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Decaying Forest is a black metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2024. The project delivers atmospheric black metal.
Deceased is a black metal band from Chelm, Poland, formed in 2012. The project channels dark black metal from the Lublin Voivodeship.
Deceased Sun is a black metal band from Ukraine, formed in 2022. The project channels dark black metal.
Deceitful Sorcery is a black and melodic black metal project from Graz, Styria, Austria, releasing music through Running Wild Productions. Their releases Of Battles and Recaption (2024) and Of Kings and Landscapes (2025) point to a project with thematic interests in warfare and landscape — comparable in atmosphere to other Styrian black metal acts such as Hellsaw and Varulv.
Pomona's Deceive spent their early years dealing in death/thrash crossfire before pivoting toward a darker blackened death sound — a natural evolution for a band forged in Southern California's uncompromising underground. Over a decade on, their sound remains as caustic as the Inland Empire streets that bred them.
Deceiver Legion plays black metal from Oulu, active since 2020 and channeling the frozen darkness of northern Finland into deceptive, atmospheric compositions. Their military-formation name suggests organized aggression — black metal as coordinated assault.
One of Pennsylvania's most enduring black metal acts, Eddystone's Deceiverion has been waging cold war on conformity since 2002. Their two-decade persistence is its own statement in a genre that chews through bands as fast as it creates them.
Reno's December doesn't pick sides — death metal brutality and metalcore urgency coexist in their sound like fault lines ready to rupture. Active since 2014, they've developed a hybrid attack that channels the bleakness of the Nevada high desert into punishing, breakneck songs.
December Flower is a melodic black/death metal band from Diepholz, Germany, active since 2008. They blend the darkness of black metal with melodic death metal's emotional resonance.
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