The Dead Dogs from Naples deliver southern and sludge metal from the foot of Vesuvius since 2014. A decade of Neapolitan grit channels the city's raw energy through fuzz-drenched heaviness.

The Dead Flowers Graves from Pordenone craft doom metal exploring the burial of beauty since 2019. Their northeastern Italian base channels the death of floral innocence through crushing compositions.

The Deathisodes is a melodic death metal band from Portsmouth, active since 2012. Their music channels the Gothenburg-influenced melodic death metal tradition through a British lens, delivering melodic guitar harmonies alongside aggressive vocals from England's historic naval port.

The Declawed is a melodic death metal band from Kotka, Finland, formed in 2012. They play melodic death metal from the southeastern Finnish coast.

The Deep Blue is a stoner/doom metal band from Margate on the Kent coast, formed in 2021. Their oceanic name suits their heavy, drowning riffs and slow-burning doom, drawing from the seaside atmosphere of the Thames Estuary.

The Denial from Altamura near Bari deliver death and thrash metal from the city famous for its ancient bread since 2018. Their compositions channel the refusal to submit through aggressive extremity from Puglia.

The Devil's Trade is the solo project of Hungarian singer-songwriter Dávid Makó, who launched it in 2014 after departing the doom and hardcore act Stereochrist to pursue a stark, intimate sound rooted in Appalachian folk, dark Americana, and the folk traditions of Hungary and Transylvania. Performing alone with acoustic guitar or banjo, Makó built a reputation in European doom and folk circles through emotionally raw compositions; his album The Call of the Iron Peak drew particular acclaim for the severity of its stripped-down arrangements. The project has gradually expanded to include additional musicians and released Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép via Pelagic Records in November 2025.

The Drake Equation from Angers craft funeral doom metal named after the probabilistic formula for estimating extraterrestrial civilizations since 2013. Over a decade of cosmically-paced doom from the Maine-et-Loire capital, they have explored the universe's vast emptiness at a glacial tempo.

The Drowned is a death metal band from Lahti, Finland, formed in 2017. They deliver submerged, crushing death metal.