Formed in Bornem, Antwerp in 2007, Detest play black and death metal with a dark conceptual focus on the human mind, evidenced on their album We Will Get What We Deserve. The band operates as an unsigned independent act and remains active in the Belgian extreme metal underground.

Detestial is a black/thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2024. The band deliver aggressive blackened thrash drawing from both the Hellenic black metal tradition and thrash metal fury.

Dethroned is a black metal band from Saarbrücken, Germany, formed in 2019. They channel cold, majestic black metal from Germany's western border.

Dethroner is a black, death, and thrash metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2013. The project combines the extremity of three pillars of metal aggression into a potent and relentless Roman metal assault.

Dethroth is a melodic black/heavy metal band from France, formed in 2023. They blend melodic black metal with heavy metal power.

From Liège and active between 2012 and 2016, Deuil were a four-piece sludge, drone, doom, and black metal band whose name is the French word for mourning — a title chosen to capture the emotional weight of grief and loss. Released on Consouling Sounds, their 2015 EP Shock/Deny followed the 2013 record Acceptance/Rebuild, and both releases blended blackened extremity with crushing sludge density.

Deus Dethroned is a black metal band from Volos, Greece, formed in 2022. The band craft dark, intense black metal rooted in the Greek extreme metal underground.

Deus Mori is a Manchester-based black metal act formed in 2018 whose Latin name — meaning "God dies" — stakes out their theological position from the start. Their compositions channel divine mortality into atmospheric, tremolo-driven black metal befitting one of England's great industrial cities.

Deus Mortem is a black metal band from Wroclaw, Poland, formed in 2014. The project delivers dark and ritualistic black metal from the Lower Silesian capital.