Destructive Behavior is a death metal band from the Voerde/Dinslaken area in North Rhine-Westphalia, formed in 2020 and living up to their name with uncompromising sonic devastation. Their sound channels the industrial grit of the Ruhr region into relentless, hard-hitting death metal.

Destrudo started as a progressive death metal project in Rome before shifting toward the more atmospheric expanses of post-metal. Named after the Freudian concept of the death drive, their music traces an arc from cerebral aggression toward contemplative, cinematic heaviness.

Destrukto is a black and death metal band from Osthammar, Sweden, formed in 2011. The project merges black metal with death metal from the Uppsala county.

Desultor is a technical death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2013. The project delivers technically precise death metal from the Swedish capital.

Desum is a black/death metal band from Hungary, formed in 2018. The band channel extreme metal aggression at the intersection of black and death metal.

Desynchronized is a death metal band from Kaliningrad, Russia, formed in 2023. The project delivers aggressive death metal from Russia's Baltic exclave.

Formed in Bornem, Antwerp in 2007, Detest play black and death metal with a dark conceptual focus on the human mind, evidenced on their album We Will Get What We Deserve. The band operates as an unsigned independent act and remains active in the Belgian extreme metal underground.

Detestor plays death metal from Ourense in Galicia, active since 2019 and delivering punishing extreme metal from Spain's rainy, Celtic-influenced northwest. Their Latin-rooted name — to detest — channels raw hatred into focused sonic aggression.

Dethlirium is a death/thrash metal band from Bilbao, Spain, formed in 2016. They unleash frenetic death/thrash from the Basque capital.