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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Demorden is an atmospheric black metal project from Finland, emerging in 2025. They create immersive atmospheric black metal soundscapes.
Demring is a black metal band from Rouen, France, formed in 2017. They deliver dark black metal from Normandy's medieval capital.
Demoralyzer is a blackened crust-thrash band from Pilsen, Czech Republic, active since 2013 with a prolific run of releases blending punk fury with metal heaviness. Their Czech-language tracks like 'Metalomorfoza' and 'Balada Opilcova' fuse crust punk's urgency with thrash and black metal ferocity.
Den Duister blends black metal with dark ambient from the Dutch underground, active since 2016 and whose name — Dutch for "the dark one" — signals an immersion in total darkness. Their hybrid approach layers black metal's aggression beneath ambient's spectral atmospherics.
Den of Iniquity is a black/death metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2020. They forge a sinister blend of black and death metal from the Rhineland underground.
Deneb is a black metal band from Rybnik, Poland, formed in 2021. Named after the brightest star in the constellation Cygnus, the project channels cosmic black metal.
Named after the tail-star of Leo, Derry, New Hampshire's Denebola launched in 2025 with a cosmically bleak convergence of doom, death, and black metal that suits the cold granite desolation of New England. Their multi-genre approach maps the boundaries between suffocating heaviness and icy atmosphere, suggesting a young band already comfortable in dark, expansive territory.
Denever is a black metal band from Ozd, Hungary, formed in 2022. The band channel raw black metal darkness from the Hungarian underground.
Denial of Death is a black/death metal band from the Nuremberg/Würzburg area of Germany, formed in 2021. They confront mortality through savage black/death metal extremity.
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