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Canoas, BR · 2025–present · split-up
A short-lived one-man black metal project driven by its sole member Nekrose, channeling themes of melancholy, depression, and internal struggle into nine tracks of emotional intensity on the 2025 album "Inexistencial Inexistência." The band dissolved the same year the album was released.
EC · active
Necropyre is a Death/Black Metal band from Ecuador, active since 2021. Their self-titled "Demo I," released in July 2021, features four tracks of raw extreme metal written and performed entirely by the band, with all music and lyrics credited to Necropyre. The demo was self-released independently on Bandcamp under the straightforward descriptor "Metal from Ecuador."
PE · active
Necros Spirifer is a black metal band from Arequipa, Peru, formed in 2024 and dedicated to themes of sacrifices, sorcery, chaos, and darkness. The band released their debut demo "Abysmus Primigenus - We Preserve the Ancient Wisdom" in 2025, a six-track recording that announced their arrival in the Peruvian black metal underground.
São Paulo, BR · 2020–present · active
A solo black metal vehicle for multi-instrumentalist Wagner Schipanski, who handles all guitars, bass, and vocals, drawing on the raw templates of Venom, Bathory, and early Celtic Frost. The project re-emerged in 2020 with the album 'Addiction for Lust and Perversion', delivering fast, deliberately grimy black metal with an old-school sensibility that traces back to Schipanski's 'Temple of Lust' demo from 1996.
Manaus, BR · 2023–present · active
Necrovisceral blend brutal death metal ferocity with black metal atmosphere, hailing from the Amazonian city of Manaus. Their Bandcamp catalogue includes the release Pandemia Apocalíptica, showcasing a grinding, aggressive approach rooted in the South American extreme metal underground.
Rio de Janeiro, BR · 2019–present · active
Nefarious Abyss is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Dominus Gargoyle, conceived as a complete audiovisual experience built around a fictional dark kingdom. The 2019 debut album Dominus blends atmospheric, melodic, and symphonic black metal across ten tracks, drawing listeners into an elaborate personal mythology of conquest and darkness.
Patos, BR · 2023–present · active
Nefarious Murmur practice an occult brand of doom-laden black metal from the Paraíba interior, drawing inspiration from Urfaust, Rotting Christ, and Isengard. Their releases include the demo Ercidium Unreal and the EP IX: Aeterna Paganus Heremita, presenting a slow, ritualistic approach rooted in demonology and esoteric themes.
Buenos Aires, AR · 2025–present · active
Nekyros is a Buenos Aires black metal project formed by Cristián Yans (guitars, bass) and Dany (vocals, drum programming), both also known from Los Males del Mundo. Their debut album Nyxian Path was released on March 7, 2025 via German label Northern Silence Productions, with guest vocalist Ylva de Lune appearing on the opening track; the album was recorded and mixed in Argentina between 2020 and 2023.
Córdoba, AR · 2011–present · active
Nemoris is a black metal band from Córdoba, Argentina whose discography includes the albums Hell's Glacial Solitude (2011), Esoteric Visions of the Old Ritual (2013), and Black War (2020). The band, whose vocalist is credited as Svart Sjel, builds their sound around themes of Satanism and occultism and has remained an independent underground act throughout their career.

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