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Kingsport, Tennessee's Deafened occupy a gloomy corner where depressive black metal, stoner doom, and ambient drift converge — music that sounds like the Appalachian hills turning dark around you. Since 2022, the project has leaned hard into desolation.
Death Beauty is a depressive black metal project from Toulon, France, formed in 2019. They explore the beauty in darkness through raw DSBM from the Mediterranean coast.
Raw and unrelenting, Seattle's Death Mantra channel depressive black metal into bleak, suffocating rituals that feel built for the Pacific Northwest's grey skies. Their sound is a cold fog that refuses to lift.
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Vancouver, Washington's Dehextria formed in 2025, channeling the cold desolation of depressive black metal from the rainy, grey Pacific Northwest — a landscape that practically writes the subgenre for you. Their brand of DSBM leans into isolation and atmosphere, embracing the raw, meditative anguish at the heart of the form.
Delvays plays depressive black metal from Chelyabinsk in the Urals, active since 2014 and channeling the industrial-city blues of the Ural metal belt into raw, emotionally wracked compositions. Their decade of anguished output speaks to a sustained creative commitment to DSBM.
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.
Depressiona was a depressive black metal project from Betim, Minas Gerais, Brazil, blending electronic and industrial elements with the raw abrasiveness of DSBM. Active from 2017 until their split-up, the band contributed a track to the 2019 DSBM Brazil compilation and self-described their sound as melancholic and politically charged.
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