DwellingSouls is a black metal and symphonic metal band from Karmoy, Norway, formed in 2015. The project merges black metal's darkness with symphonic grandeur from the coastal island.

Dwellnought is a black and doom metal band from Varese, Italy, formed in 2025. The project merges atmospheric black metal with monolithic doom metal weight.

DXS is an industrial gothic/black metal band from Cannes, France, active since 2012. They merge industrial and gothic textures with black metal from the French Riviera.

Dxvxdxd Sxlf is a symphonic black/gothic metal band from Clermont-Ferrand, France, formed in 2018. Their cryptic name signals an enigmatic fusion of symphonic black and gothic metal.

The solo project of Corentin Longrée — first from Brussels, later Charleroi — Dyadhem channels black and sludge metal through dense, self-produced recordings in which Longrée handles all instruments, vocals, concepts, and artwork. Their debut full-length From Essential Bitterness and the follow-up He Who Claims to Be trace a dark, introspective trajectory through blackened sludge that operates entirely outside the label system.

Dyaus is a black metal band from Alessandria, Italy, formed in 2022. Named after the Vedic sky deity, the project channels cosmic black metal from the Piedmontese underground.

Dyderung is a depressive black metal project from Canterbury, England, formed in 2020 and formerly known as Led by Delusions. Their releases include the I Cannot Awaken demo, a 2020 split with Psuchagogoi titled The Last Dawn, Natural Decay, and False Awakening.

Dying Aura is a one-man black metal project from Carinthia, Austria, led by Erech Leleth. The 2020 album Of Death, Kings and Solitude draws on Swedish black metal's melodic sensibility, layering bleak atmosphere with enough melodic relief to prevent the sound from collapsing into pure noise.

Dying Blaze is a black metal band from Kramatorsk, Ukraine, formed in 2006. One of the veteran black metal acts from the Donbas region.