Originally formed in the late 1980s under the name Porrada Ultra Suicida, P.U.S. were among the earliest extreme metal acts to emerge from Brasília, drawing on Slayer, Celtic Frost, and early Sepultura to forge a raw death-thrash hybrid. They released the EP Third World in 1990 on Maggot Records and signed with the seminal Cogumelo Records for their self-titled debut LP, before a later reformation moved them deeper into pure death metal territory.

Pabllo Vittar with Guns is a blasting extreme metal project that collides black metal, death metal, and grindcore into an unapologetically confrontational package, flying the flag for LGBTQIA+ representation in the heaviest corners of the underground. Their 2023 debut EP announced them with six tracks of ferocious, deliberately lo-fi noise and a title that leaves no ambiguity about who they're playing for.

Pandemmy occupies the ferocious overlap between thrash and death metal in the tradition of Kreator, Sepultura, and Hypocrisy, building a catalog across three full-lengths: "Reflections & Rebellions" (2013), "Rise of a New Strike" (2016), and "Subversive Need" (2020). The Recife quartet has shared stages with Exodus, Abbath, and Amon Amarth, and their decade-plus of work reflects a band constantly pushing the technical and aggressive ceiling of the genre.

Old-school death metal outfit drawing from the grime of Autopsy, the riff vocabulary of Death, and the brutality of Obituary, Papa Necrose deal in themes of religious hypocrisy, human contradiction, and corporeal decay. Their output includes the split Culto a Morte (2016), the album Open Infected Body (2021), and Anthropomorphy Execution (2026), released through Awakening Records.

One of the foundational acts in Brazilian doom/death metal, Pentacrostic formed in Osasco in 1989 and helped establish the sound on their debut "The Pain Tears" (1992), which incorporated material stretching back to their 1990 demo "Agony of Souls." Their follow-up "De Profundis" (1996) on Cogumelo Records is considered a rare and overlooked gem of the genre, and the band has remained active for decades as pioneers of the form in South America.

A one-person death metal project where David Lago handles all instruments and vocals, Perdição Dialética announced itself in December 2024 with a three-track demo featuring "Ressonância Subversiva," "Vértice da Perdição," and "Ruína da Lógica." The demo serves as a preview of a full-length already composed and in the mixing stage.

Peristaltic Movement traffic in old-school death metal built around grotesque medical and pathological imagery, best showcased on their self-released debut Anomalies Museum (2017), recorded at Estúdio AM in Rio de Janeiro and mastered in Athens. Tracks like "Cranioscopy," "Colonizing the Orbital Cavity," and "Desintegration of Human Tissue" make the thematic territory plain — this is clinical, unadorned death metal with no concessions to polish.

Founded in Divinópolis in 2008, Perlokus is a raw black/death metal duo — VoidNecroLust and HEL Antichrist Revenge — who cite Sarcófago's INRI as the defining template for their sound: primitive, blasphemic, and chaotic. After years of demos and a brief name change to Ritos Abominaveis, they returned as Perlokus and released two full-lengths, Ainda Morto e Decomposto (2016) and Hóstia Podre (2019) via Brazilian Ritual Records, both cementing their place in the South American underground extreme metal tradition.

Perpetual Devourer is a death metal band from Quito, Ecuador, formed in January 2025 by guitarist and vocalist Adrián Salazar alongside drummer Diego Ocampo and bassist Víctor Ordoñez. The band released their debut album Spirits of Annihilation in late 2025 through Death Forces Records, a five-track record recorded at Winners Productions in Latacunga that delivers straightforward, aggressive death metal. Signing to a dedicated death metal label in their debut year signals the band's intent to establish a serious presence in the genre.