Asterean is a melodic black/death metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, that traces its roots to 2011 through a predecessor project called Espera XIII before formalizing under the current name around 2020. The four-piece — featuring Renan Brito on guitars, vocals, and keyboards alongside Fernando Henrique Ribeiro on drums — released their debut full-length Cosmorama in July 2022, a 33-minute record blending nature-themed black metal atmospherics with crushing riffs and cosmic imagery, followed by the Sovereign EP in 2024.

A solo death metal and noise project from São Paulo, driven entirely by Luis Fernando Khaf-re, who handles all instruments himself. The project explores the failures of modernity and mysticism across a catalog that includes albums such as "Superstitions," "Light of Repentance," "Made in Voodoo," and "Esgoto Sonoro," with a cover of Sepultura's "Roots Bloody Roots" nodding to the São Paulo metal lineage.

Atiesia is a death metal trio from Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia, formed in 2017 by guitarist and vocalist Johan Esteban Moreno alongside bassist Diego Osorio and drummer Cristhian Guarnizo. The band released their debut EP "Falsos Altares" in 2019, a four-track recording rooted in fast, heavy death metal. They remain active and independent, with Moreno also active in several other Colombian extreme metal projects.

Atomic Fear was a death metal band from Timóteo, Minas Gerais, with roots tracing back to 2007 before the band reconstituted in the early 2010s. The group released the EP "Globaritarian" in 2013 and earned a foothold in the regional underground scene with politically charged lyrics delivered over aggressive death metal, performing at festivals including Grito do Rock in their home city before eventually splitting up.

Atro is a blackened doom and death metal project from Campina Grande, Paraíba, active since 2019. The project operates in the underground extreme metal circuit of Brazil's northeast, blending the suffocating weight of doom metal with blackened atmosphere and death metal aggression.

Ayat Akrass is a death metal/hardcore band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. The band blends the aggression of hardcore punk with death metal heaviness, with lyrical themes centering on equality, capitalism, and political resistance. Their 2003 demo "Quando o Preço da Glória é Pago com Sangue" (When the Price of Glory is Paid with Blood) was released jointly through the Shades Before Dawn and L-Dopa labels.

Aztlán is a death metal band from Bahia, Brazil, founded by bassist/vocalist Marcello "Paganus" Antunes — an economist and historian with a deep focus on pre-Columbian civilizations. Drawing exclusively on Aztec mythology, cosmology, and history, the band blends old-school death metal with black and traditional heavy metal elements to narrate the stories of the Mexica empire. Their discography includes the 2018 single "Blood Offering," the 2019 EP "Entrance to Mictlán," and the 2025 EP "Xipe Totec," the latter of which earned six nominations in Roadie Crew's annual awards.

Açoite is a death metal band from São Luís, Maranhão, active since 2018 and part of the growing extreme metal scene in Brazil's northeastern region. Operating independently, the band channels the raw, aggressive spirit of old-school death metal from a city rarely associated with the genre, placing them among the few extreme acts representing Maranhão on the national underground map.

Aüscülta is a death metal and grindcore band from Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil, formed in 2021 and part of a small but tenacious extreme metal scene in Brazil's northeastern interior. Their name — a stylized rendering of the Portuguese/Latin word meaning "listen" — signals an abrasive, confrontational approach to brutality, combining death metal's heaviness with grindcore's short-burst intensity.