LAC is a death metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, operating under the abbreviated name after years of activity as Lacerated and Carbonized. Under that earlier name the band released the album Narcohell (2016), recorded at HR Studios in Rio and mixed at Stage One Studios by Andy Classen, with lyrics reflecting the city's urban violence and social decay. The project continued under the LAC name and remains active on Vingança Music.

Lachrimatory was a doom/death metal band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, originally formed in 1999 and recognized as a cornerstone of that city's doom scene. Their album Transient, first self-released as CD-R in 2011 and officially reissued by Russia's Solitude Productions in 2014, featured cello alongside keyboards and guitars to create dense, melodic atmospheres. The band split up by 2015, leaving Transient as their most widely distributed work.

Lacktor are a death/thrash metal band from Antofagasta, Chile, whose name is drawn from the Kunza word for "famine" — a language spoken by the Likan Antai, a pre-Hispanic civilization of the Atacama region. Combining old-school Swedish death metal with thrash, crust punk, and traces of black metal, the band delivers lyrics in Spanish addressing famine, social criticism, and historical colonialism. They released their debut full-length Hambruna in 2019 through Organic Waves Studios, followed by Legado in 2022.

Lacrima Mortis is a doom/death metal quintet from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in 2016 and known for a theatrical, ceremonial aesthetic that includes robed stage attire inspired by acts such as Sunn O))). They debuted with the EP Optare Mortem in 2017 before releasing their first full-length, Posthumous, through German label Talheim Records in 2020, a nine-track, 48-minute record featuring weathered death growls, Gregorian chants, and guest vocalist Laurent of French band Mourning Dawn.

Lady Mortis is a doom/death metal project from Valinhos, São Paulo, Brazil, active since November 2017 and rooted in funeral melancholy with Portuguese-language themes of darkness and existential grief. The band has released several recordings including the EP Exiled from the Light and singles such as Snow Tears (2022), Winter Farewell Poem, and Darkened Emotions, building a catalog of slow, elegiac compositions.

Lamentos is a melodic doom/death metal duo from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, comprising John Silva (all instruments, mixing, and mastering) and Paulo Brasil (vocals), whose Portuguese-language lyrics explore anguish, hopelessness, and existential reflection. The band released their debut full-length O Livro Proibido on June 17, 2023, through Abismo Metal Store, Sangue Underground Records, and Black Moon Records, with a physical edition limited to 200 copies.

Land of Tears is an old-school death metal band from Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with roots tracing back to 2000. Drawing on influences such as Bolt Thrower, Entombed, and Dismember, the band released their debut album "The Ancient Ages of Mankind" in 2014, which led to a European tour through Germany, Belgium, Holland, and Poland. The band returned in 2022 with a reformed lineup after a break in activity beginning in 2018.

Lapidation were a death metal band from Castro, Chiloé, Chile, one of relatively few extreme metal acts to emerge from the island of Chiloé in the Los Lagos region. The band was released on Premature Cremations Productions and put out the EP Condemned to Eternal Darkness in January 2015. Lyrical themes centered on death, suffering, and torture.

Larvae are a death metal band from Concepción, Chile, operating within the long-established extreme metal scene of the Biobío region. The band released the full-length Entitled to Death in April 2023, documented on the Encyclopaedia Metallum under band ID 3540466302. They play straightforward death metal in the old-school tradition.