Desolate Tapes is a depressive black metal project from Finland, formed in 2018. They capture desolation through raw depressive black metal.

Despair Eternal is a Berlin-based black metal act formed in 2022, channeling unending bleakness into tremolo-driven compositions. Their name promises anguish without resolution, and their music delivers precisely that — black metal as an expression of permanent desperation.

Desperandum Gothica is a doom/black metal act from Erembodegem in Belgium, formed in 2017 and blending the slow, crushing weight of doom with black metal's tremolo-driven atmosphere. Their Latin-tinged name evokes gothic desperation, which aptly describes their music's emotional register.

Despizer is a black and thrash metal band from Pabianice, Poland, formed in 2013. The project fuses black metal's rawness with thrash metal's velocity.

Despondent plays depressive black metal from Porto, active since 2008 and channeling nearly two decades of despair into raw, emotionally devastating compositions. Their name's clinical description of hopelessness translates directly into music that makes no attempt to comfort.

Destillat is a melodic black/death metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2018. They distill the essence of melodic extremity through black and death metal.

Destinity is a band from Lyon, France, active since 2002, whose sound evolved from black metal through symphonic black/death metal to melodic thrash/death metal. Their two-decade journey spans multiple extreme metal subgenres.

Destractive is a death/thrash/black metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2013. They deliver a three-pronged extreme metal assault.

Destroy All Gondolas is a Venetian act whose tongue-in-cheek name perfectly captures their gleefully irreverent fusion of punk, black metal, and surf rock, which later shifted toward thrash, heavy metal, and punk. Few bands embody their hometown's identity as aggressively or humorously as this canal-city crew.