Dormant Ends is a heavy and progressive metal band from Karlstad, Sweden, formed in 2021. The project blends classic heavy metal with progressive complexity.

Dormant Ordeal is a death metal band from Krakow, Poland, formed in 2013. The project delivers technically precise death metal from the Lesser Poland capital.

Dormanth is a melodic doom/death metal band from Bilbao, Spain, active since 1994. With three decades of activity, they are pioneering figures in the Basque metal scene.

Dormitorium is a death metal band from Grudziadz, Poland, formed in 2014. The project channels aggressive death metal from the Kuyavia-Pomerania region.

Dormonokt plays black metal from Matosinhos near Porto, active since 2017 and channeling nocturnal themes through atmospheric compositions. Their name's evocation of sleeping through the night adds a dreamlike, somnambulant quality to their black metal.

Dorn is a black/doom metal band from Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, formed in 2018. They entwine black metal's cold fury with doom's suffocating weight.

Dornen is a black/sludge metal project from Baden-Württemberg formed in 2022, whose German name — meaning "thorns" — captures the piercing, abrasive character of their hybrid sound. Their fusion of black metal's tremolo intensity with sludge metal's crushing low-end creates a uniquely punishing sonic texture.

Dornenbahn is a Zurich-based black metal project whose German name — meaning "path of thorns" — signals the painful, austere character of their music. Founded in 2026, they represent the newest wave of Swiss black metal emerging from the country's largest city.

A melodic black metal band from Tyrol, Austria, formed in 1996 by members who would also be known for their work in Summoning-adjacent circles, signed to Prophecy Productions. Their third album 'Her Von Welken Nächten' became a reference work in German-language metal, and their extensive discography traces an evolution from symphonic black metal through acoustic folk approaches, with lyrics drawing on Romantic poetry and nature mysticism.