Darzamat is a symphonic gothic black metal band from Katowice, Poland, formed in 1996. One of Poland's veteran extreme metal acts, the project merges symphonic grandeur with gothic and black metal darkness.

Dask is a gothic and black metal band from Patras, Greece, formed in 2017. The band merge the dark atmosphere of gothic metal with the intensity of black metal in their Hellenic underground sound.

Dastard is a depressive black metal/ambient project from Aalborg, Denmark, formed in 2022. They explore despair and isolation through raw depressive black metal and ambient textures.

Dastri Got Dagur is a black/doom metal band from Toulon, France, emerging in 2025. They forge black and doom metal from the Mediterranean coast.

Datura Metel is a depressive black metal project from France, formed in 2016. Named after the toxic plant, they explore despair through raw depressive black metal.

Datura Stramonium is a symphonic black metal band from O Grove, Spain, formed in 2017. Named after the toxic plant, they blend symphonic grandeur with black metal's poison from Galicia's coast.

Dauden is a black metal project from Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium, and the sole member is also the drummer of Norwegian black metal project Mork. The 2020 debut full-length My Soul Will Be Damned Forever, released on Dominance of Darkness Records, runs nearly 48 minutes across eight tracks of punishing, traditional Norwegian-influenced black metal.

Daughters of Sophia is an atmospheric/post-black metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2015. They explore gnostic themes through expansive post-black metal from southeastern France.

Dausa is a black, doom, and sludge metal band from Vilnius, Lithuania, formed in 2019. The project merges black metal's atmosphere with doom and sludge metal's crushing weight from the Baltic underground.