Descent to Destruction is a black and death metal band from Malmo, Sweden, formed in 2025. The project merges black metal with death metal from southern Sweden.

Desecration of Mankind is a black metal band from Oleksandriia, Ukraine, formed in 2020. The project channels dark black metal from the Kirovohrad region.

Desecration Rites is a raw black metal band from Zaragoza, Spain, formed in 2016. They perform unholy rituals through raw, uncompromising black metal from Aragón.

Desecrator of Ichor is a bestial black/death metal band from Greece, formed in 2024 and releasing through Casket Sanctuary Productions. Their debut Apex Nocturnus (2024) delivers ten tracks of pure bestial desecration across thirty-two minutes, issued as a limited digipak CD edition of one hundred hand-numbered copies.

Desert Priest is a black and doom metal band from Dnipro, Ukraine, formed in 2015. The project merges black metal with doom metal from the Dnieper River city.

Desiderata is a black metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2007. The project channels atmospheric black metal from the Polish capital.

Desincarnated is a black/death metal band from Asnières-lès-Dijon, France, formed in 2019. They deliver fleshless extreme metal from Burgundy.

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.

Desmodus Rotundus plays black metal and grindcore from Bergen, formed in 2024 and named after the common vampire bat. Their scientific-nomenclature name adds a zoological precision to the blood-soaked ferocity of their extreme metal.