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Suicide Letters are a depressive black metal band from Chile whose debut EP Happiness Faded Away was released in 2026. The band's lyrical focus centers on themes of suicide, operating in the rawer, introspective tradition of the DSBM subgenre.
Naberezhnye Chelny's Suicide of the Masses have evolved from depressive black metal to post-rock since 2017. Their name of collective self-destruction and origins in the Tatar auto-manufacturing city channel the despair of industrial modernity into compositions that have grown increasingly atmospheric.
Sukkubys is a depressive black metal project from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2023, channeling the introspective anguish and lo-fi bleakness central to the DSBM tradition.
Surfeiter is a Los Angeles depressive black metal and noise project formed in 2023, channeling desolate atmospheres and feedback-laden misery in a city better known for its sun but home to a thriving underground extreme metal scene.
Sverker is a Newark, Ohio depressive black and gothic metal project formed in 2020, blending the anguished minimalism of depressive black metal with gothic atmosphere and introspective darkness.
SweetSuicide channel depressive black metal from Jyvaskyla, exploring the genre's most paradoxically named emotional territory. Emerging in 2025, they bring saccharine despair to the central Finnish underground.
Saint Petersburg's Sar craft depressive black metal from the cultural capital since 2019. Their Swedish name meaning "wound" channels the rawness of open injury into compositions of atmospheric anguish from Russia's most European city.
Ten Onder, meaning 'go under' in Dutch, practice depressive black metal from the Gelderland/Utrecht region, channeling overwhelming despair through lo-fi atmospherics and anguished vocals since 2013. Their music inhabits the genre's most emotionally desolate territory.
Brussels-based depressive black/doom project Ter Ziele was created by prolific Belgian multi-instrumentalist Déhà alongside lyricist and vocalist Lore as an outlet for personal darkness, releasing the full-length There Is No Useless Pain in 2017 before disbanding in 2018 with the farewell compilation Tenondergang. A distinct, unrelated Ter Ziele project formed in 2020 and has since performed at major festivals including Roadburn and Into the Grave, releasing the debut album Embodiment of Death in 2025.
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