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Darkest Sorrow Bears Mortality is a depressive black metal solo project from Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, active since 2017. Their self-titled 64-minute album explores themes of suicide, mental disorders, and existential philosophy through deeply personal, raw black metal.
Long Island's Darkness Incarnate arrived in 2023 with Farmingdale black metal steeped in the raw, stripped-back aesthetics of the genre's underground tradition. New York's outer boroughs and suburban zones have long cultivated extreme metal out of the spotlight, and this project continues that lineage.
Dastard is a depressive black metal/ambient project from Aalborg, Denmark, formed in 2022. They explore despair and isolation through raw depressive black metal and ambient textures.
Datura Metel is a depressive black metal project from France, formed in 2016. Named after the toxic plant, they explore despair through raw depressive black metal.
Dead Whore plays depressive black metal from the closed nuclear city of Sarov, formed in 2022 and channeling raw despair through lo-fi, emotionally devastating compositions. Their provocative name and restricted-access hometown lend an air of forbidden darkness.
DeadKropp plays depressive black metal from Moscow, active since 2021 and whose German-Russian hybrid name — evoking a dead body — captures the genre's fixation on mortality and decay. Their compositions trade in the slow-burning anguish that defines DSBM.
Deadleaf was a depressive black metal solo project from Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil, operated by Douglas Sinsuk (also known as Soulless), who handled all instruments and vocals. The project explored themes of loneliness, depression, and anthropophobia, releasing the album "I'm Not Dead Yet..." in 2019 and contributing tracks to Brazilian DSBM compilations before splitting up. Deadleaf was released through Orlög Black Art.
Benton, Kentucky's Deadlife deliver groove metal from deep in the rural South, channeling the grinding heaviness of a genre built on pocket and punishment since 2017. Small town, thick riffs.
Deadwishes is a Brazilian atmospheric and depressive black metal project formed in 2018, operating within the country's active DSBM underground scene. The band explores themes of emotional despair and melancholy, and has contributed to Brazilian DSBM compilations including the "Coletânea de DSBM Nacional" series.
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