Origin: Serbia
Formed: N/A
Location: N/A
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
Status: Active
Label: Independent
Themes: Instrumental
Adrian Black is an instrumental depressive black metal project from Serbia, active in the underground since at least 2017. Although little biographical information is publicly available, the project is associated with the musician behind Misanthropium, suggesting a background rooted in raw, emotional, and introspective black metal expression. Unlike most DSBM acts, Adrian Black focuses entirely on instrumental compositions, using melody, repetition, and atmosphere to convey despair, isolation, and existential numbness without relying on vocals.
The project’s activity peaked in 2017, a year in which Adrian Black released a long series of singles exploring different shades of melancholy and inner collapse. Tracks such as End, Exitium, Forbidden Angels, Last Days, and Take Me Away established a sonic palette built on sorrowful guitar lines, minimalistic structures, and a lo‑fi aesthetic typical of the depressive black metal underground. The music often leans toward ambient black metal territory, using space and repetition to evoke emotional desolation.
Several releases from 2017 pay homage to influential acts within the genre, including covers of Woods of Ypres (A Meeting Place and Time), Thy Light (A Crawling Worm in a World of Lies), and Burzum (Dunkelheit). These interpretations highlight Adrian Black’s roots in the atmospheric and depressive traditions of the 1990s and 2000s, while also showcasing the project’s ability to reinterpret iconic tracks through a purely instrumental lens.
In 2018, the project released Overdose, a single that continued the bleak, introspective direction of earlier works. Although Adrian Black has remained quiet since then, the project’s catalog stands as a concentrated burst of instrumental DSBM expression—raw, personal, and unfiltered.
Adrian Black – All instruments
(Associated with: Misanthropium)
Singles
End (2017)
Exitium (2017)
Forbidden Angels (2017)
Last Days (2017)
Take Me Away (2017)
The Bridge (2017)
…and the End Has Come (2017)
Loneliness (2017)
A Meeting Place and Time (Woods of Ypres cover) (2017)
Lower Astrals (2017)
Emptiness (2017)
Tenebris (2017)
A Crawling Worm in a World of Lies (Thy Light cover) (2017)
Dunkelheit (Burzum cover) (2017)
Overdose (2018)