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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Depersonalisation Diagnosis is a depressive black metal project from England, formed in 2020. They explore psychological dissociation through raw depressive black metal.
Depersonalization is a depressive black metal and dark ambient project from Hungary, formed in 2020. The project explores themes of mental dissociation through the lens of DSBM and dark atmospheric textures.
Dephosphorus is a death/black metal and grindcore band from Athens, coined as "astrogrind" for their fusion of grindcore with science fiction and astronomy themes. Featuring guitarist Thanos Mantas, vocalist Panos Agoros, drummer John Votsis, and bassist Kostas Ragiadakos, their fifth album Planetoktonos (2025), mastered by James Plotkin, explores Dyson spheres and superintelligence inspired by The Expanse novels.
Depicting Abysm plays atmospheric black metal from Saint Petersburg, active since 2013 and painting the void through immersive, reverb-drenched compositions. Their artistic name — depicting the abyss — treats black metal as visual art, each song a portrait of endless depth.
New Jersey's DepraVation have been stoking the furnaces of no-frills death metal since 2012, their Garden State origin lending the music a direct, industrial quality stripped of any Southern gothic or West Coast sunshine. Raw, focused, and uninterested in trends, they represent the kind of workmanlike underground brutality that sustains the genre's foundations.
An atmospheric black metal duo from Graz, Austria, formed in 2020, comprising Florian Plochel on all instruments and Martin Langmann on vocals. They released the debut album 'Amygdala' in December 2020, followed by the EP 'Aeternum - Lethe - Highlands' in March 2023 through Kvlt und Kaos Productions.
Formed in 2019 in Omaha, Nebraska, Depraved Indifference brings a cold, ferocious brand of black metal to the Great Plains. Their sound channels the raw, misanthropic fury of the second wave with a modern edge, carving out dark territory in an unlikely heartland setting.
Depravement is a black/death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019. They deliver depraved extreme metal from the Finnish capital.
Depressive Witches is a black metal/black 'n' roll band from Picardy, France, formed in 2021. They blend depressive black metal with rock and roll swagger.
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