Death Nazar plays avant-garde metal from Irkutsk near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia, active since 2015. Their Siberian location on the world's deepest lake provides a fitting backdrop for music that plumbs the depths of experimental metal.

Deemtee is an avant-garde black metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2019. They push black metal into experimental, avant-garde territory.

Demilich is a technical/avant-garde death metal band from Kuopio, Finland, active since 2014. They are celebrated for their distinctly alien approach to technical death metal, with bizarre vocal stylings and labyrinthine compositions.

Demimonde is an avant-garde metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2013 and pushing boundaries across death, doom, and gothic metal. Their genre-defying approach fuses experimental songwriting with the darkness and heaviness of multiple extreme metal traditions.

Denigrata is an avant-garde black metal band from Northampton, England, formed in 2015. They push black metal into avant-garde extremes from the English Midlands.

Derhead is an avant-garde black metal and industrial project from Genoa, Italy, founded in 2001 by Giorgio Barroccu. With six releases blending post-black metal, industrial textures, and noise improvisation, the project draws thematic inspiration from Dostoevsky while incorporating analogue synthesizers and experimental elements.

Dernier Martyr is an avant-garde and progressive metal project from Greece, formed in 2023. The project pushes the boundaries of metal through experimental compositions and unconventional structures.

Devar plays avant-garde metal from Bergen, active since 2009 and pushing metal's boundaries through unconventional compositions from a city renowned for its adventurous music scene. Their exploratory approach treats the genre as a starting point for experimentation rather than a destination.

Devenial Verdict is a death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2022, whose sound evolved into avant-garde death metal territory. They push death metal boundaries with experimental ambition.