DTI emerged from Lynnwood, Washington in 2019 at the crossroads of black metal's cold atmosphere and grindcore's blunt-force intensity. Their approach fuses blast-beat brutality and punk hostility with corrosive black metal textures, a combination that has flourished in the Pacific Northwest's underground. Short, vicious, and uncompromising.

A Berkeley, California project active since 2013, Dunnock operates in the harshest margins of raw black metal and noise, crafting lo-fi, abrasive recordings that prioritize atmosphere and primitive menace over production polish.

Frederick, Maryland's Dweller in the Valley has navigated the crossroads of black, death, and doom metal since 2013, weaving together extremity and desolation into a sound that is as bleak as the genre tags suggest.

A Nashville, Tennessee black metal project formed in 2024, Dweller of Graves works within the genre's most austere traditions, conjuring a sound built around cold riffs, harsh vocals, and an unflinching commitment to darkness.

Taking their name from Jewish folklore's restless spirit, Boulder, Colorado's Dybbuk have woven together Viking, folk, and black metal since 2012, creating a distinctly atmospheric brand of pagan metal grounded in mythological imagery and sweeping melodic sensibility.

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.