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Psychagogos is a Brazilian black metal project formed in 2014, signed to Darker than Black Records, with lyrical themes centered on paganism, philosophy, and fantasy. The band released a self-titled cassette demo in 2019, its only documented release to date, available through the Darker than Black catalogue.
Psycophobia is an independent death/black metal band from Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, with releases documented on Metal Archives including "Reality of a Psychotic Underworld" and "Devilish Kiss of Death." The band also appeared on the compilation "Satan Smashes Fascism" (2018) with the track "March of Destruction" and on "The Sound of Satanic Hellbangers Vol. II" (Satanic Hellbangers Records, November 2022) with "Welcome Infernal Land."
A recently formed São Paulo outfit fusing raw black metal with crust punk, Pöstvmö operates from an openly antifascist political stance and has deliberately built a racially and gender-diverse lineup in a scene that has historically lacked both. The band connects the underground extreme metal world with vegan and straight-edge communities, bringing a confrontational DIY ethos to their bleak, abrasive sound.
Quam Lumen is a black metal band from Rio de Janeiro formed in 2019, with lyrical themes drawn from Taoist and Luciferian philosophy alongside themes of solitude and social disintegration. Their demo Old Nature Qliphoth — subtitled Cosmic Pervert Devotion — was released through their Bandcamp page.
Radamathys is a black metal band from Ceilândia, in Brazil's Distrito Federal, formed in 2023. Their self-titled debut release, which appeared on Bandcamp in 2023, includes the track "A semente do mal" and draws on vampiric and occult themes.
Radiação Bestial is a speed/thrash/black metal band from Recife, active since at least 2011, with a lineup of vocalist Dominatorem ex inferi, guitarists Hellunatic and Bestial Atrocity, bassist Thiago Xaruto, and drummer Leandro Cavalcante. Their 2022 album Rex Maximvs — released jointly through Resistencia Underground, Satanic Sound Records, and Kingdom of Darkness — contains seven tracks and was issued in CD digipack format.
Raskol is a one-man black metal and grindcore project from Recife, Pernambuco, created and run entirely by Bruno Kbça Nascimento. The project released three records in quick succession — Kvlt Skvm Krvst (April 2019), Perturbado (July 2019), and Um Rato (February 2020) — all of which sit in a raw, crust-inflected blackened grindcore style rooted in the DIY underground of Brazil's northeast.
Brazilian black metal project that writes all lyrics in Esperanto, addressing themes of anti-fascism, poverty, and class war. Their album Sango por Sango was released on March 31, 2020, and includes an adaptation of poetry by Eduardo Taddeo in the track "Estamos mortos".
Black metal band from Campinas/Valinhos, São Paulo, founded in 2005 and taking their name from a Baudelaire poem in Les Fleurs du Mal. Their lineup on the 2014 album Posthumum Haeresis Ecclesiastica included vocalist Tristenius Von Doom, guitarists Lutus and Cultus Nihil, bassist Mephisto, and drummer Impetus — the band's third full-length following Post Mortem Martyrivm (2007) and Les Poètes Maudits (Litanies I) (2010).
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