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Délirant is a black metal band from Alicante, Spain, formed in 2018. They deliver delirious black metal from the Mediterranean coast.
Demona is a speed metal project founded in 2007 by Constanza "Tanza" Godoy Díaz (Tanza Speed) in Valparaíso, Chile, with Tanza handling vocals and guitar across various lineups. The band released two full-lengths — "Metal Through the Time" (2012) and "Speaking with the Devil" (2013) — as well as a 2015 EP on Hells Headbangers Records featuring drummer Tormentor of Desaster and mastering by Joel Grind of Toxic Holocaust. The project later evolved into Outline in 2017.
Départe are an Australian black and post-metal band formed in Hobart, Tasmania around 2011 under the name ØRANNIS. They shed their black metal orthodoxy as the lineup expanded, incorporating death metal, post-metal, drone, and doom into a sound described as emotive and hypnotic. Their debut demo MMXIV (2014) and full-length Failure, Subside (2016) on Season of Mist brought them to wider attention, and they have shared stages with Gorguts, Ulcerate, and Portal.
Détresse is a black metal trio formed in Vienna in 2023 with members drawn from Austria and Québec, a transatlantic lineup that brings together francophone lyrical sensibility and European extremity. Their debut album Pessimismes, released in 2025, is a six-track collection that leans into depressive and post-black metal textures.
Détruits Bâtards is a sludge/doom metal and punk band from Metz, France, formed in 2017. Their name meaning 'destroyed bastards,' they deliver filthy sludge, doom, and punk.
Déçu is an atmospheric black metal/ambient project from Occitanie, France, formed in 2017. Their name meaning 'disappointed,' they create immersive atmospheric black metal.
Dëgénéréscence is a black metal band from France, formed in 2020. Their name meaning 'degeneration,' they deliver degenerating black metal.
Días Oscuros por Venir is a one-person project from Valentín Alsina, Buenos Aires, helmed entirely by Ignacio Elías Rosner, who handles all instruments, vocals, recording, editing, mixing, and mastering. The project released its debut album Heraldos del Final on August 14, 2024 — a nine-track, approximately 35-minute record blending crust punk and post-black metal with apocalyptic lyrical themes sung in Spanish. The album's closing track, "Destruir el Arca," runs nearly ten minutes and includes a dedication in memory of Argentine metal figure Ricardo Horacio Iorio.
Rapid City, South Dakota black metal project formed in 2020, Dísablót takes its name from a Norse sacrificial ceremony honoring the dísir — female ancestral spirits — situating the project squarely within heathen tradition. Their Dakotas origin lends an isolated, stark quality appropriate to their icy, pagan aesthetic.
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