Depressive black metal project from Lublin, formed in 2025. ColdWinterSorrow channels bleak melancholy through atmospheric black metal from eastern Poland.

Depressive black metal band from Erfurt, Germany, active since 2017. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal steeped in despair and isolation.

Depressive black metal project from France, formed in 2019. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal steeped in despair.

Depressive black-doom metal band from France, formed in 2021. They craft bleak, crushing metal that merges depressive black metal with doom weight.

Depressive black metal project from Slovakia, formed in 2020. Cryptic Vampire channels vampiric melancholy through atmospheric black metal.

Depressive black metal project from the rural village of Magla, active since 2021 and channeling isolation and anguish through bleak sonic landscapes. Their remote origins lend an authentically desolate quality to their despondent sound.

Depressive black metal project from Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region, formed in 2019. Cuts channels bleak, self-destructive themes through atmospheric black metal from central Ukraine.

Damnatio Aeterna is a depressive black metal project born in 2015 in Bergamo, exploring themes of human fragility and existential despair across EPs like Humana Fragilitas and Pulvis et Umbra. The latter release examines tragedy as an artistic and existential concept, channeling philosophical anguish into bleak, atmospheric compositions.

Damnatus is a depressive black metal project from Alessandria in northern Italy, described simply as channeling "the pain of living." Albums like Quando nessuno ti aspetta nel mondo and Io odio la vita are sung in Italian and deliver raw, emotionally harrowing black metal steeped in nihilism and isolation.