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Mrak is a depressive black metal band from Darmstadt, Germany, formed in 2018. They channel bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the depths of despair.
Emerging from La Cienega, New Mexico in 2023, Murkurselv play depressive black metal with the high-desert isolation of northern New Mexico running through every note — sparse, grief-saturated, and shaped by a landscape that feels removed from the rest of the world. The name itself has a Nordic quality that signals familiarity with DSBM's Scandinavian roots.
Mutilated Minds is a depressive black metal/post-rock band from Castelo Branco, Portugal, formed in 2023. They channel bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the depths of despair.
My Dearest Wound is a solo depressive/post-black metal project from Santiago, created by Sergio González Catalán, who also runs the doom projects Rise to the Sky and Winds of Tragedy. The project debuted with The Burial, released in 2023 through US label Tragedy Productions, followed by The Weight of Life Was Greater in 2024. The music confronts themes of childhood trauma, suicide, and self-harm, drawing on González Catalán's stated aim to express melancholy and inner rage without abstraction.
My Deathbed is a depressive black metal band from Greece, formed in 2017. They channel bleak, emotionally devastating DSBM from the Greek underground.
My Dying World Mako is a atmospheric/depressive black metal band from Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine, formed in 2014. They channel bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the depths of despair.
Maple Grove, Minnesota's My Lost Innocence work the depressive black metal vein since 2025, trading in raw, desolate atmospheres and the cold emotional weight that defines the DSBM tradition.
A depressive black metal project out of Sacramento, California, My Useless Life traffics in the suffocating misery and lo-fi aesthetics that define the DSBM underground, delivering bleak, introspective compositions that lean heavily on raw atmosphere over technical polish.
My Widow is a depressive black/doom metal band from Bryansk, Russia, formed in 2013. They channel bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the depths of despair.
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