Dreamgrave is a progressive and gothic metal band from Szeged, Hungary, formed in 2009, featuring guitarist-vocalist Domotor Gyimesi, vocalist Maria Csanyi-Molnar, violinist Krisztina Baranyi, and a full six-piece lineup. Their releases from Deadborn Dreams (2009) through Presentiment (2014) to the Monuments EP (2017) explore progressive metal with symphonic, psychedelic, and avant-garde elements.

Dreaming Soul plays doom/black/pagan metal from Moscow, formed in 2023 and exploring the unconscious mind through a triple-genre hybrid of crushing heaviness, atmospheric darkness, and pre-Christian spirituality. Their somnambulant name captures the dreamlike quality of their ritualistic compositions.

DreamLongDead is a doom/death metal band from Athens, featuring dual vocalists Yiannis Pousios and Tassos Palaiologos, guitarist Achilles Charmpilas, bassist Leonidas Vranas, and drummer Manos Giakoumakis. Their 2024 album Derelict delivers over sixty minutes of raw, ultra-heavy metal across six monumental tracks, mastered by Jack Control in Austin and featuring cover art by surrealist painter Zdzislaw Beksinski.

Dreams After Death is a one-man atmospheric and funeral doom metal project from Budapest, created by Andras Illes in 2011, who performs all instruments solo. The 2012 album Fading Chains features six tracks spanning over an hour, each named after emotional states from Anger through Sadness, Peace, and Love to the thirteen-minute closer Nothingness.

Dreams of Doom plays doom/death metal from Porto, formed in 2024 and channeling nightmarish visions through the genre's slowest, heaviest frameworks. Their oneiric name adds a surreal dimension to compositions that crush with the inevitability of a bad dream.

Drear is a black and doom metal band from Norwich, England, formed in 2018. The project fuse the bleakness of black metal with the crushing weight of doom in their dark, atmospheric output.

Drecksau is a sludge/doom metal band from Nuremberg, Germany, formed in 2017. Their name meaning 'dirty pig,' they wallow in filthy sludge and doom.

A West Flanders extreme metal band from Kuurne and Wevelgem active from 1986 to 1993, Dreft evolved from raw grindcore in the late 1980s through death metal and eventually into doom-death, tracing a trajectory that mirrored the broader evolution of European extreme metal during that period. The band appeared on the 1990 compilation Morbid Noise – Abomination 4 and left behind rehearsal tapes from 1988 that document their earliest grindcore phase.

Dreich is a sludge/doom metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2015. Their Scottish-derived name meaning 'dreary weather' matches their bleak, crushing sludge and doom.