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Perversity Terror were a death metal band from Tocopilla, Chile, active in 2022. They released the track "Queen of Prostitution" that year, presented as material from a demo tape titled Brutal Ritual.
Thrash and death metal band active from 2007 until their split in 2016, recorded under the Terranis Productions label and built their sound around themes of war, death, and apocalyptic destruction. Releases including "Hellish Warfare" and "Corrosive Warfare" placed them within the harder-hitting end of the Brazilian thrash underground.
Pestífera is an Argentine old-school death metal project led by Alejandro Sabransky, also known for his work in 1917 and Bokrug. The band released the EP "Crónica Macabra" in 2020 on Total Noise Records, featuring guest appearances from members of Pogrom, Pandemia, Inhumation, and Bloodfiend.
Pezadilla is a death metal and grindcore band from Medellín, Colombia, active since 2011. The band recorded a live session album in 2012 and appeared on the split "Purulenta simbiosis" in 2022, with an additional full-length "Medellin Morgue" noted in their discography. They operate as an independent unsigned act.
Pile of Corpses is a death metal outfit from São Paulo trading in blunt, filth-soaked aggression with lyrics fixated on death, sex, violence, and war. Their 2014 album For Sex, For Violence, For Alcohol, along with the earlier release Santa Claus is Cumming... (2007), showcase the band's uncompromising approach to old-school brutality. The lineup of JP Amaral on vocals and guitar alongside André "Alcoolizator" Alba gives them a dual-vocal attack that adds to their relentless energy.
Place of Warship emerged from Paracatu drawing heavily on the Swedish death metal tradition, with Entombed, Dismember, Bolt Thrower, and Benediction cited as primary influences. The trio of Humberto Costa on vocals and guitar, Daniel Sabino on bass, and Wesley Reis on drums built their sound around the classic HM-2-driven heaviness of Stockholm-style death, with a notable crust and d-beat undercurrent from Discharge and GBH. Their EP Rotting Soul captures the band's devotion to that crusty, abrasive old-school death aesthetic.
One of the longer-running extreme acts out of the greater Rio de Janeiro area, Podreiras have been delivering uncompromising old-school grindcore and death metal since the early 1990s. Their music carries a consistent undercurrent of social and political critique, channeled through a fast, abrasive sound rooted in the early Brazilian underground.
Podridão play a fetid, deliberately primitive brand of death metal that draws from the same well as Autopsy, early Sepultura, and Vulcano. The band's discography includes Cadaveric Impregnation (2023) and Coffin of the Corrupted Dead (2025, Iron Fortress Records), both leaning into gore-drenched themes and the kind of miasmic, churning riff-craft that defined the earliest Brazilian death metal scenes.
Active since 1998, Poem's Death deal in straightforward, mid-paced death metal with a combative, politically charged lyrical worldview. Their debut album Decade of Rebellion, released in 2019 through Mutilation Productions and Blizzard Records, collects tracks like "Apocalypse of Workers" and "The Master to Slave" into a blunt, unembellished slab of old-school death.
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