Dannhad is a Sardinian depressive black metal project whose releases Rebirth and The End... explore themes of melancholy and psychological descent, guided by the philosophy that "only towards the long ways of the unconscious can you find real salvation." Their atmospheric approach emphasizes emotional weight and introspective darkness over sheer aggression.

Darkest Sorrow Bears Mortality is a depressive black metal solo project from Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, active since 2017. Their self-titled 64-minute album explores themes of suicide, mental disorders, and existential philosophy through deeply personal, raw black metal.

Dastard is a depressive black metal/ambient project from Aalborg, Denmark, formed in 2022. They explore despair and isolation through raw depressive black metal and ambient textures.

Datura Metel is a depressive black metal project from France, formed in 2016. Named after the toxic plant, they explore despair through raw depressive black metal.

Dead Whore plays depressive black metal from the closed nuclear city of Sarov, formed in 2022 and channeling raw despair through lo-fi, emotionally devastating compositions. Their provocative name and restricted-access hometown lend an air of forbidden darkness.

DeadKropp plays depressive black metal from Moscow, active since 2021 and whose German-Russian hybrid name — evoking a dead body — captures the genre's fixation on mortality and decay. Their compositions trade in the slow-burning anguish that defines DSBM.

Death Beauty is a depressive black metal project from Toulon, France, formed in 2019. They explore the beauty in darkness through raw DSBM from the Mediterranean coast.

Delvays plays depressive black metal from Chelyabinsk in the Urals, active since 2014 and channeling the industrial-city blues of the Ural metal belt into raw, emotionally wracked compositions. Their decade of anguished output speaks to a sustained creative commitment to DSBM.

Depersonalisation Diagnosis is a depressive black metal project from England, formed in 2020. They explore psychological dissociation through raw depressive black metal.