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December Moon is a symphonic/melodic black metal band from Ipswich, England, emerging in 2025. They deliver cold, symphonic black metal from East Anglia.
One of Boston's most restless extreme metal acts, December Wolves have spent over two decades defying easy categorization — moving from savage death/black metal into industrialized post-black territory without losing their teeth. Their evolution mirrors the shifting, bitter cold of a New England winter that never fully yields to spring.
Fresh out of Baltimore as of 2024, Deceptedsouls arrives with the menacing energy of a city that has always had a quiet, undersung black metal tradition. Raw, atmospheric, and unpolished in all the right ways.
Decepti is a black metal band from Ostergotland, Sweden, formed in 2018. The project channels dark black metal.
Nutley, New Jersey black metal act Deceptio Visus — Latin for "deception of sight" — traffics in disorientation and cold fury, building a sound that makes the Garden State feel genuinely bleak. A decade into their existence, they remain one of Jersey's more committed practitioners of uncompromising black metal.
Dechristianize was a black metal band from Graneros, O'Higgins, Chile, operating with anti-Christian and Satanic lyrical themes. The band released the demo 'El Origen de la Extinción Cristiana' in 2004 and included members performing under pseudonyms including Sarcass, Lord Impurath, Abhor, and Filosofo.
Decima is a black metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2019. They deliver measured black metal from southeastern France.
Decimated Cross is a black metal band from Tamworth, England, formed in 2019. They deliver crucifying black metal from the Staffordshire heartland.
Decipher is a black/death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2023, featuring guitarist-vocalist Kostas Gerochristos (Lucifer's Child), bassist Kostas Ragiadakos (Dephosphorus), and drummer Nodas Chatzopoulos. Their 2026 album Thelema, released through Transcending Obscurity Records, delivers steely, riff-focused black metal with melodic undertones across seven tracks.
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