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December Moon is a symphonic/melodic black metal band from Ipswich, England, emerging in 2025. They deliver cold, symphonic black metal from East Anglia.
Formed in Boston in 2022, Deep Fear bring a metalcore attack sharpened on the city's hardcore tradition — urgent, suffocating, and built on a hair-trigger temper.
Def/Light is a melodic black and death metal band from Dnipro, Ukraine, formed in 2008. The project channels atmospheric extreme metal from the Dnieper River city.
Defilade is a melodic black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2017. The band merge melodic sensibility with black metal intensity in their Hellenic extreme metal output.
Deilegium is a melodic black metal band from Tallinn, Estonia, active since 1994. With three decades of history, they are pioneering figures in the Estonian black metal scene.
Tarpon Springs, Florida's Deimos have been crafting melodic black metal since 2000, a longevity that places them among the more seasoned acts in Florida's surprisingly diverse extreme metal scene. Their melodic approach to black metal draws atmospheric melody into the foreground, tempering the genre's harshness with harmonic structure and a sense of dark grandeur.
Demonium is a melodic black/death metal band from Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, operating in Republika Srpska's south. Their Bandcamp catalog, including Hand of Satan and Sapiens Dominabitur Astris, reflects a project that navigates between melody and extremity in the tradition of Scandinavian-influenced Eastern European black metal.
Demonstride is a melodic black and death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2009. The project channels atmospheric extreme metal from the west coast.
Desire for Sorrow is a melodic black metal band from the Tyn nad Vltavou/Zliv area of the Czech Republic, founded in 2009 and signed to MetalGate Records. With albums including 'At Dawn of Abysmal Ruination' and 'Visions,' the band has toured extensively across Europe and Mexico, blending symphonic textures with black and death metal intensity.
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