Darkwind is a black-death metal band from the Kozlovice/Frydek-Mistek area of the Czech Republic, formed in 2018 and channeling the raw intensity of Eastern European extreme metal. Their sound fuses black metal's icy aggression with death metal's crushing depth.

Darkwoods My Betrothed is a black metal band from Kitee, Finland, active since 1994. With three decades of history, they are pioneering figures in Finnish black metal.

Darkwraith is a black and death metal band from Bergen, Netherlands, formed in 2020. The project fuses black metal's darkness with death metal's brutality from the North Holland underground.

Darkyo plays progressive black/death metal from Fryazino in Moscow Oblast, active since 2016 and pushing extreme metal into complex, boundary-defying territory. Their hybrid approach merges black metal's atmosphere with death metal's weight through a progressive structural lens.

Dark Samurai plays folk/black metal with ambient elements from Privolnaya in southern Russia, active since 2016 and fusing Japanese warrior imagery with Slavic folk metal traditions. Their cross-cultural concept creates a unique hybrid that bridges Eastern and Western mythology.

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.