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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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San Francisco's Depressor have been mutating metal since 1995, beginning their career with abrasive industrial metal before pushing further into brutal death metal territory. This long-running Bay Area act represents a rare evolution from mechanized noise and grinding machinery into something even more viscerally crushing.
Depresy is a symphonic black and death metal band from Trencin, Slovakia, formed in 2022. The project layers orchestral darkness over extreme metal.
Deprime is a black and symphonic metal band from Buti, in the Pisa province of Tuscany, Italy, formed in 2020. The project layers orchestral grandeur over raw black metal foundations in a dark and dramatic Tuscan metal vision.
Depriv plays depressive black metal from Caldas da Rainha, active since 2017 and channeling emotional deprivation into lo-fi, anguished compositions. Their truncated name mirrors the stripped-down, minimalist approach they bring to DSBM.
Depth of Eternity is an atmospheric black metal band from Ivanovo, Russia, formed in 2021. The project channels ethereal atmospheric black metal from central Russia.
Depths Above is an atmospheric post-metal band from Brno, Czech Republic, blending black metal dissonance with doom-influenced heaviness across expansive compositions. Their 2018 release 'Ex Nihilo' features four sweeping tracks recommended for maximum volume listening, drawing comparisons to Ulcerate and Skaphe.
Depths of Despair is a pagan black metal band from Russia, formed in 2019. The project channels ancient pagan themes through atmospheric black metal.
Der Märtyrer is a black/industrial metal project from France, emerging in 2025. They forge martyrdom through black and industrial metal.
Der Rache liebt is a black metal, ambient, and punk project from Berlin, Germany, with roots stretching back to 1992. As one of the oldest acts in this dataset, they combine black metal, ambient textures, and punk energy across three decades of activity.
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