Disintegration started as a black metal act in the mountain village of Al in Hallingdal before incorporating Viking metal elements. Their remote alpine setting provides an authentic backdrop for music that has evolved from pure black metal fury toward the epic sweep of Viking-themed compositions.

Dismal Euphony is a pioneering Norwegian symphonic/melodic black metal act from Stavanger, active since 1996 and among the early architects of the symphonic black metal sound. Their later evolution toward gothic metal expanded their palette while maintaining the dark melodicism that defined their influential early work.

A melodic death/black metal band from Vienna, Austria, formed in 1997 and signed to Black Empire Records. Their catalog includes 'Thoughts' (2004) and the album 'Rethought' (2015), and they have performed at Kaltenbach Open Air and at Vienna venues including the Viper Room, mixing melodic death metal with black and thrash metal elements.

Dismisha is a black metal band from Russia, formed in 2022. The project channels dark black metal from the Russian underground.

Disolvo Animus is a blackened death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2006, combining death and black metal with ethnic, classical, and traditional musical elements. Their releases include Aleatoric Morte, Aphesis, and Obscure Forces Incarnated, expressing what the band consider the most powerful and shocking sound on Earth.

Disowned is a black, death, and thrash metal band from Forshaga, Sweden, formed in 2015. The project fuses three pillars of extreme metal from the Varmland region.

Dispanzer is a black metal and heavy metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2019. The project blends classic heavy metal with black metal darkness.

Disparaître is a black metal band from France, formed in 2018. Their name meaning 'to disappear,' they play vanishing, atmospheric black metal.

Dispersed Ashes is a funeral doom/black metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2018. They create vast, glacially slow funeral doom intertwined with black metal's bleakness.