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Drama Noir is a symphonic blackened death metal project from Corinth, Greece, founded in 2017 by Paul Papathanasiou. Their third album Nightfall Upon the Asylum (2023), released through Floga Records, explores gothic horror themes across nine tracks featuring orchestral arrangements by Mephisto and mixing by Psychon at SoundAbuse Productions.
Dramaturg plays melodic black metal from Tula, formed in 2023 and whose theatrical name — the Russian word for playwright — frames their compositions as dramatic works. Their melodic approach to black metal treats each song as a staged performance of darkness.
Drap is a depressive black metal project from Solingen, Germany, active since 2014. They explore despair and anguish through raw depressive black metal.
Drastus is a black metal band from Pays de la Loire, France, formed in 2019. They deliver drastic black metal from western France.
Dratna is a one-man atmospheric black metal project from Belfast, created by Andrew McKenna in 2018, drawing heavily from Irish mythology and Celtic folklore. The prolific project has released seven albums since 2018, from the debut Cliodhna through to Samhain Dawn at the Gates of Mag Mell (2025), each exploring Irish legends through melodic, folk-inflected black metal.
Draugar plays black metal from Kirov in the Urals, formed in 2022 and named after the Norse undead guardians of burial mounds. Their Scandinavian-mythology name channels the dread of walking corpses through atmospheric black metal compositions.
Draugaskogur is a black metal band from Serbia, formed in 2025. Named after an Icelandic haunted forest, the project channels atmospheric black metal.
Draugenatt is a black and viking metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2019. The project channels atmospheric black metal with Norse themes from the Norwegian capital.
Drauggard plays thrash/black metal from Nizhny Novgorod on the Volga, active since 2004 and among the longer-running extreme metal acts in the region. Their Norse-derived name and two decades of output have established them as veterans of the Russian extreme metal underground.
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