A Chance at Life creates depressive black metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 2024. Their desperately hopeful name creates a devastating contrast with the suicidal despair of their DSBM compositions.

A Cold Sun channels depressive black metal from an undisclosed Italian location since 2017. Their name evokes the paradox of a star stripped of its warmth, matching the emotional frigidity and isolated despair at the core of their sound.

A depressive black metal project from Osnabrück, Germany, Ableben channel desolation and isolation through their DSBM-rooted sound. Their 2020 release Insignificant, Indifferent, Forgotten... pairs two tracks of bleak, introspective black metal that lives up to the project's name — German for 'to perish.'

Absence of Life is a depressive black metal solo project originating in Minsk, Belarus, with all instruments and vocals handled by the sole member Forladt. The project has released the album "The Fall" (2018), organized as three chapters titled Pain, Despair, and Emptiness, as well as the demo and later full-length "Alive... to Suffer" (2022).

Abstinence practices depressive black metal from Moscow since 2014. Their name — the deliberate denial of indulgence — creates a paradox with the emotional excess of their DSBM compositions from the Russian capital.

Absurdoom creates depressive black metal from Niš in southern Serbia since 2012. Their portmanteau — absurdity meets doom — captures the existential bleakness of their sound from this historic city once known as Constantine's birthplace.

Abyss of Life channels depressive black metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2012. Their existential-void name — life as an abyss — captures the profound despair at the core of their DSBM compositions.

Abyss of Sheowl creates atmospheric and depressive black metal from Riga since 2014, their name combining the concept of an abyss with the Hebrew underworld Sheol. From Latvia's capital on the Daugava River, they plumb the deepest registers of despair.

Aenfrz channels raw depressive black metal and dark ambient from Chernivtsi in western Ukraine since 2019. Their consonant-heavy, vowel-stripped name mirrors the airless, suffocating quality of their Bukovinian DSBM.