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Divine (2024)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Raw depressive black/doom metal band from the UK formed in 2023. Their evocative name channels emotional bleakness through lo-fi extreme metal.
Depressive black metal band from the UK launched in 2025. Their morbid name channels atmospheric despair through raw black metal.
IDPA is a depressive black metal project from Sinop, Turkey, active since 2024 and channeling despair and isolation through raw, emotionally charged black metal. The project explores the most sorrowful and bleak reaches of the genre.
Ambient/depressive black metal band from London, active since 2014. Their sound layers ambient textures over depressive black metal from the British capital.
Born from the grey skies of Seattle in 2024, IFeelSick channels the rawness of depressive black metal into unfiltered expressions of anguish — lo-fi and visceral, with no interest in comfort.
IIIusion is a depressive black metal, ambient project from Trento, Italy, active since 2021 and channeling despair and isolation through raw, emotionally charged black metal. The project explores the most sorrowful and bleak reaches of the genre.
IJsrijk is an atmospheric depressive black metal studio project from Ghent, Belgium, formed as a duo by vocalist Traen and multi-instrumentalist Smart. Their 2014 album Eensaemen Leydenswegh, sung in Dutch, delivers forty-eight minutes of glacial ambient black metal — the band's name translates to "Empire of Ice."
Impavida is an atmospheric/depressive black metal and ambient project originally from North Rhine-Westphalia, later based in Koblenz, Germany, active since 2019. The band layers depressive black metal over ambient textures, creating immersive, emotionally devastating compositions released through Van Records.
In Dolore is a depressive black metal/rock project from Russia, active since 2024 and channeling despair and isolation through raw, emotionally charged black metal. The project explores the most sorrowful and bleak reaches of the genre.
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