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Ready is a Finnish depressive black metal project formed in 2018, exploring themes of despair and isolation through atmospheric, melancholic black metal. The project operates within Finland's deep tradition of depressive extreme music.
Red Forest is a depressive black metal and ambient project from Valencia, Spain, active since 2014. The project channels melancholic, atmospheric black metal from the Mediterranean coast of eastern Spain.
London-based depressive black metal project whose very name spells 'suffer' in reverse, exploring themes of misanthropy, death, suicide, and self-loathing. Their bleak sonic palette channels the most despondent corners of the black metal spectrum from England's capital.
Odesa depressive black metal project formed in 2021, channeling themes of despair and anguish through bleak sonic landscapes from the Black Sea port city. Their desolate approach mines the most emotionally raw corners of the genre.
Rotten Light is a depressive black metal project from Burgos in Castile and León, Spain, active since 2013. The project channels melancholic, introspective black metal from the Gothic cathedral city on the northern Castilian meseta.
Rymr is a depressive/raw black metal project from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2017. Their album 'Dead Forests of Human Souls' delivers cold, lo-fi black metal recorded during 2019-2020, with the band notably offering all their music for free download.
Sacrimoon is a depressive black metal project from León, Guanajuato, Mexico, formed in 2012. The band has released multiple full-lengths including Reflections of My Suicide Melancholy (2015), Lost in an Endless Delighted Illusion (2019), and I'm Gonna Miss You. Later activity has been split between Mexico and Italy.
Depressive/atmospheric black metal solo project from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, active from 2013 to 2021. The project contributed the track "Frasco de Veneno" to the DSBM Brazil Vol. III compilation (2020), and posthumously released the archival album Madrugada Morta in February 2023, which included unreleased demos and instrumental pieces alongside a collaboration with guitarist Gabriel from Rio de Janeiro. Themes across the discography focused on death, suicide, Satanism, and solitude.
New York's Samoubiystvo — the name translating roughly to "suicide" in Russian — operates in the depressive black metal underground since 2024 with the solitary intensity the subgenre demands. The project works in darkness by design, crafting music that feels internal and desolate, built from raw black metal's most harrowing emotional register.
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