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[2025] Handle With Care! Recommended Depressive Black Metal Bands Summary

In recent years—partly due to the influence of the film “Lords of Chaos”—it feels like more music fans have at least heard the term “black metal.” But are you familiar with the genre commonly known as “depressive black metal”?

This article introduces some of the most notable bands in depressive black metal—often abbreviated as DSBM overseas—a subgenre derived from black metal that is intensely introspective and decidedly world-weary.

Even among black metal fans, many find DSBM difficult to enjoy.

It’s a highly selective genre, so please approach it with due caution!

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[2025] Handle With Care! Recommended Depressive Black Metal Bands Summary
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1Poslední cestaTristDepressive black metal born in the Czech Republic…
2IsolationHypothermiaLife Is Pain and Lifelov…
3The beginningHappy DaysAnyway, the irony of “happy days”...
4Det Hviskes Blant Sorte VinderStridAlongside Norway’s Burzum, a depres...
5Death – Pierce meSilencerA genre called depressive black metal…
6Chapter 4Make A Change… Kill YourselfThey, bearing a name far too steeped in despair, …
7Misere NobisNyktalgiaActive until 2008 and based in Germany…
8InoriKanashimiFrom Shizuoka, Japan emanates a wailing cry of noise, and—
9I Will Die Tomorrow…No Point in LivingIn 2018, for the first time in Japan, “Depressive Bu...
10Bloody MelancholyLife Is PainHypothermia and Lifelove...
11Reflecting in SolitudeShiningA genre called depressive black metal…
12Nackskott (Neckshot)LifeloverK, who is also the mastermind behind Hypothermia…
13Nocturnal PoisoningXasthurDepressive black metal, in its musical...
14At the Door to the Tenth Sub Level of SuicideLeviathanBegan working in the United States around the same time as The Star…
15The Funeral RainI Shalt BecomeThe Zastar, Leviathan, and others in the 1990s...
16Woman of Dark DesiresBathoryExtreme metal born in Sweden…