Boston's Decompression marry black metal's icy hostility to doom's oppressive crawl, carving out a bleak, suffocating sound since 2022. The Massachusetts cold seeps into every droning, frost-bitten riff.

Bay Area act Decreation fuse melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with the cold fury of black metal, emerging from Alameda in 2024 with a sound that prizes darkness over accessibility. Both elegant and unsparing.

One of Spokane's longest-running extreme metal acts, Decrepit have been plumbing the depths of raw black metal since 1993 — over three decades of stripped-down, unadorned darkness from the inland Pacific Northwest. A true underground survivor.

Parma, Ohio's Decrepit have evolved steadily since 1993, shifting from early death metal foundations toward a blackened edge over the years. Their longevity speaks to the durability of the northeast Ohio underground.

Boston's Decrepit Decapitation of a Man Once Lost in the Forest of Fate arrive in 2024 with one of extreme metal's most absurdly committed names and a sound to match — blackened deathcore colliding with death metal's raw, dissonant tradition. The title is a thesis statement.

Decrepit Throne operate from an undisclosed location with a black/death metal sound that values atmosphere and menace over geographic identity. Since 2017, they've built a catalog steeped in ruinous, occult-tinged darkness.

Midwest-based Decrescent have charted a fascinating arc since 2018 — beginning in the angular complexity of technical death metal before pivoting toward black metal's more atmospheric, elusive darkness. Both phases are united by a relentless drive toward extremity.

Formed in Boston in 2022, Deep Fear bring a metalcore attack sharpened on the city's hardcore tradition — urgent, suffocating, and built on a hair-trigger temper.

Out of Bellingham, Washington, Deep Recess conjure psychedelic black/death metal that feels like descending through fog — disorienting, atmospheric, and uncommonly heavy for a project barely a year old.

Raw Black Metal out of Texas.

Canton, Ohio's Deepest Cuts draw from a wide palette of extremity, anchored in black metal darkness and built by a band that refuses to be pinned to a single sonic corner.

Boston's Deer Hollow are one of the more technically uncompromising acts in the city's extreme metal scene, locking technical death and black metal into dissonant, labyrinthine attacks since 2016.

Indiana's Deez Trees launched in 2025 with a blackened thrash 'n' roll approach — chaotic, fast, and irreverent, like a campfire that got out of control on purpose.

Byron Center, Michigan's Defacement have been forging blackened death metal since 2019, wielding the raw hostility of black metal against the cavernous brutality of death to unsettling effect.

Pittsburgh's Defeat began in the raw end of black metal before pivoting toward Viking metal's epic scope, evolving over a decade into something that carries both the grime and the grandeur of their influences.