Dismal Chant is a death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2020. The band deliver dark, crushing death metal rooted in the Greek underground extreme metal tradition.

Dismal Crux is a heavy/thrash/doom metal band from Granada, Spain, formed in 2022. They forge a dark crossroads of heavy, thrash, and doom metal.

Dismal Dawn is a melodic death metal band from Mikashevichy, Belarus, incorporating folk metal elements and instrumental passages into their sound. Their 2015 release 'The Awakening' spans six tracks of expansive, harmonically rich metal with compositions averaging over five minutes.

Dismal Euphony is a pioneering Norwegian symphonic/melodic black metal act from Stavanger, active since 1996 and among the early architects of the symphonic black metal sound. Their later evolution toward gothic metal expanded their palette while maintaining the dark melodicism that defined their influential early work.

Dismal Fog is a thrash metal band from Toulouse, France, active since 1990. With over three decades of history, they are among the oldest thrash acts in the French scene.

A melodic death/black metal band from Vienna, Austria, formed in 1997 and signed to Black Empire Records. Their catalog includes 'Thoughts' (2004) and the album 'Rethought' (2015), and they have performed at Kaltenbach Open Air and at Vienna venues including the Viper Room, mixing melodic death metal with black and thrash metal elements.

Dismal Sleep is an epic and funeral doom metal band from Greece, formed in 2021. Their debut Beyond the Veil (2021) features seven tracks of oppressively slow, sorrowful doom metal spanning nearly forty-five minutes, with titles like Lowering of the Coffin and Hovering Above a Mouldy Tomb.

Dismalia is a gothic metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2021. The project crafts dark, melancholic gothic metal atmospheres from the Italian capital.

Dismanibus is a five-piece melodic death metal band from Colchester, Essex, formed in 2013. Their debut album The Old Lie (2013) was followed by years of development leading to their forthcoming concept album Dacia, previewed by the 2025 single Becoming the Warrior.