Lakewood, California's Dying Messiah has been merging black and death metal since 2007, forging a sound that borrows the atmospheric cold of the former and the sonic brutality of the latter into a consistently extreme sonic statement.

Formed in 2014 in Bend, Oregon, Dysperium fuses black metal's harsh, windswept atmosphere with folk metal's melodic and acoustic sensibilities, carving out a sound that suits the high desert and forested Pacific Northwest. The project balances aggression with an organic, earthen quality.

Chicago-based depressive black metal project formed in 2019, Dysphoric Entity channels the DSBM tradition's hallmark qualities — bleak atmosphere, anguished vocal delivery, and lo-fi rawness — through a distinctly urban lens. The project is a solitary, introspective exercise in despondency.

Albany, New York black metal and ambient project formed in 2025, Dysthanoxis explores the atmospheric space between raw black metal and textural ambient sound. Still in its earliest stages, the project suggests an interest in darkness as much sonically constructed as it is riff-driven.

Orlando, Florida black metal project formed in 2014, Dzoavits takes its name from a cannibal giant in Shoshone mythology, signaling a thematic depth that reaches beyond typical Scandinavian-derived black metal imagery. Florida's extreme metal pedigree runs deep, and Dzoavits contributes a more esoteric strain to that tradition.

Boston atmospheric folk/black metal act formed in 2016, Dzö-nga weaves Himalayan folklore and indigenous mythologies into a sound built on sweeping black metal atmospherics and folk instrumentation. Their work is among the more culturally specific and spiritually rooted in the American black metal underground.

Rapid City, South Dakota black metal project formed in 2020, Dísablót takes its name from a Norse sacrificial ceremony honoring the dísir — female ancestral spirits — situating the project squarely within heathen tradition. Their Dakotas origin lends an isolated, stark quality appropriate to their icy, pagan aesthetic.

Alabama black metal project formed in 2016, Død (Norwegian for 'death') carries forward the stripped and confrontational spirit of raw black metal from an unlikely Southern US setting. The contrast between the Southern locale and the Nordic aesthetic is part of what gives the project its edge.

Formed in 2025 in Tupelo, Mississippi, Dùvraith works in the atmospheric black metal tradition, using cold, expansive textures and depressive undertones to build immersive soundscapes. A new arrival in the American atmospheric black metal scene, the project emerges from an otherwise rare corner of the South for this style.