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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Diabolus is a black metal band from Germany, formed in 2022. They play dark, ritualistic black metal steeped in infernal themes.
Diabállein is a black metal band from Monte Alto, São Paulo, Brazil, whose name derives from the Greek root of the word "diabolos," and who cite influences including Sarcófago, Darkthrone, Mayhem, and Venom. The band released their fourth full-length album, "Anti Sacra," in early 2025, recorded at Arte Estúdio in Monte Alto and distributed through Sangue Frio Produções.
Diachronia is a black and death metal band from Bielsko-Biala, Poland, formed in 2017. The project merges black metal's darkness with death metal's aggression from the Silesian Beskids.
Diaice is a Dutch black metal project formed in 2024, fusing the cold imagery of ice with the genre's atmospheric intensity. Their name suggests frozen, crystalline darkness — a fitting descriptor for the frigid hostility of their sound.
Diamatregon is a black metal band from Grenoble, France, active since 1997. With nearly three decades of activity, they are established pillars of the French Alpine black metal scene.
Diamond Eyed Princess is a medieval folk/black metal band from Toulon, France, active since 2001. With over two decades of activity, they blend medieval folk traditions with black metal from the Mediterranean coast.
Diascorium is a technical death/black metal band from Leeds, England, active since 2010. They deliver technically demanding extreme metal from West Yorkshire.
Diatrekhon Aster is a depressive suicidal black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2017 by vocalist Methanal, multi-instrumentalist VII, and drummer Leliel. Self-described as "urban depressive suicidal black metal art," their releases Metroglodyte, An Ecosystem of Utility Poles, and Sons of the Lone Wolf explore the mental struggle of human existence within the cityscape.
Diavolos is a death/black/thrash metal band from Greece, featuring Tas Danazoglou (Satan's Wrath, ex-Electric Wizard) and Taneli Jarva (ex-Sentenced, ex-Impaled Nazarene). Their 2015 album You Lived Now Die, released through Hells Headbangers, delivers ten tracks of filthy 1980s-inspired extreme metal drawing from Bathory, early Onslaught, and Possessed.
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