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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Der Schwarze Haufen is a black metal band from London, England, emerging in 2025. Their German name meaning 'the black pile,' they deliver black metal from the British capital.
Der Toten lebend Schein is a black metal band from Mönchengladbach, Germany, formed in 2020. They explore themes of death and spectral existence through atmospheric German black metal.
Derealized is a black metal band from Huelgoat, France, formed in 2024. They play disorienting black metal from the forests of Brittany.
Derelict is a black metal band from Finland, active since 2008. They play abandoned, desolate black metal from the Finnish underground.
Derhead is an avant-garde black metal and industrial project from Genoa, Italy, founded in 2001 by Giorgio Barroccu. With six releases blending post-black metal, industrial textures, and noise improvisation, the project draws thematic inspiration from Dostoevsky while incorporating analogue synthesizers and experimental elements.
Derisum is a black, doom, and gothic metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2014. The project weaves gothic atmospheres into a blackened doom metal framework.
Dermenborg is a one-man black metal project from Sofia, Bulgaria, created by Necrokvlt in 2024. Already boasting several releases including 'Immortal Winter' and 'Mighty Blackened Forest of Samodivi Sathana,' the project draws on Bulgarian folklore and frostbitten Nordic-inspired black metal.
Dernier Souffle is an atmospheric black metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2023. Their name meaning 'last breath,' they deliver final, gasping atmospheric black metal.
Des Teufels Sturm is a black metal band from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2022. They channel the devil's storm through cold, malevolent black metal.
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