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Deep Memories is a melodic doom/death metal one-man project from Americana, São Paulo, Brazil, created by musician and producer Douglas Martins. The debut album "Rebuilding the Future" was released in 2018 simultaneously in Brazil, Japan, and Russia, and the second album "Why Do We Suffer?" followed in September 2022. In April 2023, Martins expanded the project to a live band and performed alongside Portugal's Moonspell.
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.
Hailing from the small-town quiet of Park Falls, Wisconsin, Deep Red forge melodic death metal with the cold, deliberate precision of a band with nothing to prove and everything to say.
Waco's Deep Rot Asphyxiation emerged in 2025 as one of Texas's newest entries in brutal deathcore, stacking suffocating breakdowns and guttural extremity from the jump.
Deep Silence is a doom/death metal band from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, active in the city's underground extreme metal scene. The band performs death-doom in a style reminiscent of 1990s acts, featuring guttural vocals layered over keyboards and melodic guitar work. They have contributed to Brazilian doom metal compilations and are listed in the Encyclopaedia Metallum under their Salvador origin.
Deep Vein is a death metal band from Poitiers, France, formed in 2024. They deliver deep, pulsing death metal from western France.
Deep Violence is a thrash/death metal band from Lunéville, France, active since 2013. They deliver deeply violent thrash/death from Lorraine.
Deepcore is a groove/melodic death metal band from Donauwörth, Germany, formed in 2019. They fuse heavy grooves with melodic death metal hooks for a powerful modern sound.
Deepcut is a death metal/grindcore band from Bottrop, Germany, formed in 2017. They slice through with razor-sharp death metal riffs and grindcore's blistering pace.
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