Apotheke der Seele — German for "pharmacy of the soul" — is a black/post-metal project from Fazenda Rio Grande, Paraná, Brazil. Their 2022 release Aqua Corrosiva blends corrosive black metal atmosphere with the slower, textured dynamics of post-metal, exploring themes of inner desolation. The German-language name signals a deliberate aesthetic distance from everyday Brazilian metal convention.

Artes Negras is a black/thrash metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina whose lyrical themes revolve around paganism, death, and Argentine werewolf folklore (the Lobizón). Their debut album "Let There Be Death" was released on CD in 2004 and featured members performing under pseudonyms including Necromandus on vocals, Lordnatt and Nan Noctambulus on guitars, Hellbastard on bass, and Funeris on drums.

As Dramatic Homage is a Rio de Janeiro project founded in 2001 by guitarist Alexandre Carreiro and vocalist Alexandre Pontes, beginning with black and doom metal before evolving toward extreme progressive metal. Their early catalog includes releases from 2001 such as "The Lover's Funeral" and "Incandescent Sun," with the 2012 track "Monumental" reflecting their later experimental direction. The name signals their central preoccupation: exploring antagonistic human behavior, philosophy, and existentialist themes through atmospheric, shifting compositions.

Asphalt Grieving is a black/death metal act from Santiago, Chile, who debuted in January 2024 with the EP "Lack of Certainty," released by Black Legion Records as a limited clear CD edition of 300 copies worldwide. Later in 2024 they released a second EP, "Transgression of the Quantum Self: Tertiary Magnitude," featuring session drums by Krzysztof Klingbein and three tracks totaling approximately 24 minutes.

Aspidis is a dissonant black/death metal band from Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, founded in 2012. Their 2017 EP Reborn From Darkness and their more recent album Intruding Voices (2025) reflect a dense, abrasive approach to the genre with roots in the dissonant death metal current popularized by acts like Ulcerate and Gorguts.

Aurora Ortus is a black/doom metal duo from São Paulo, Brazil composed of Victor Alves (guitar, drums, bass, vocals) and Dhiego Joly Botogoske (vocals), whose name translates roughly as "dawn's ascension" — a metaphor for hope emerging from depression. Since forming in 2019, they have built a prolific discography including "Drought," "Sunless Life," "Ostara," and "Against Ourselves," exploring themes of depression, mortality, and nature through slow, suffocating riffs and bleak atmospheres.

Bastiel is a black/death metal trio from Ceará, founded by Thanatuz and Siffus as a garage project rooted in first-wave black metal before evolving into rawer, more extreme territory. Their EP Descendant of Moloch draws from Beherit, Archgoat, Blasphemy, and Brazilian touchstones Sarcófago and Mystifier, channeling occultism and existential esotericism through deliberately primitive, anti-melodic aggression.

Beelzeebubth is a black/death metal project from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, linked to the Brazilian Ritual Records underground network. The project blends war metal aggression with politically-charged lyrical themes — historical atrocities, indigenous spirituality, and environmental destruction rendered through a satanic lens. Their 2020 EP "Sæculum Obscurum (Regressing More Than A Generation)" featured guest vocalists from Acheron (Vincent Crowley), Masacre (Alex Okendo), and Inquisition (Dagon), with Beelzeebubth handling all songwriting and production.

Brazilian black/death metal project formed in 2020, released via WarCore Records, featuring the duo of Tormentor on all instruments and Necromaniac on vocals. The band channels the raw, occult-drenched collision of black and death metal that defines much of the South American extreme underground, operating with a two-piece war-metal austerity.