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Portaestandarte is a black/death metal project from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2018. The band released the single "The Last Battalion" in 2021 and followed it with the demo For the Man Who Will Come in 2022, issued as a limited 100-copy cassette through Ingo Perzel Promotion.
Possessdeath is a death metal band from Valparaíso, Chile, featuring members Javier Arancibia and Juan Navarrete on guitar, Sergio Trujillo on bass, and Paolo Fernandez on drums. The band self-produced their debut EP The Breath of Death in 2015. They are listed on Metal Archives under the melodic death metal subgenre.
Originally operating as Postmortem since 2004, this quartet from Pelotas rebranded to Postmortem Inc to avoid confusion with a German band of the same name, with the core lineup of Bruno Añaña (vocals/guitar), Douglas Veiga (drums), Mou Machado (guitar), and Juliano Pacheco (bass) having solidified around 2010. Their sound alternates between brutal, technical, and rhythmic death metal riffing, with lyrics drawing on philosophy, social violence, and the horrors of war. They released the Latin-titled EP "Atra Mors" through Rapture Records in 2013 before issuing their full-length debut "The Conqueror Worm" in 2020, a record conceptually rooted in Edgar Allan Poe's poem of the same name.
Preceptor play a bludgeoning style of death metal with roots in the early nineties, pairing torn riffs and brutal vocals with an uncompromising underground attitude. Their 2017 album Dogmatismo was recorded at Estúdio Riff and mixed by Dennis Israel, followed by Súditos do Abismo in 2022 — a record built around Bruno's guitar work and Alexander The Abyss's lyrics.
One-person black/death metal project from Athayde Neto, a prolific Bahian extreme metal figure also behind Adumbrall, Töhil, Cosmic Sepulcher, and Wiseblood. Primitive Enchantment channels the rawer, more chaotic end of his output, rooted in the convergence of second-wave black metal atmosphere and death metal brutality.
Death metal band from Rio Grande do Norte with a persistent fixation on ancient Egyptian mythology, a concept embedded since their early demo "The Sacred Valley of the Kings" (2002). Their two full-lengths on Rising Records — "Todtenbuch" (2014) and "Old Gods" (2017) — incorporate keyboards and atmospheric textures alongside traditional death metal structures, with Gerson Lima (vocals) and Lux Tenebrae (guitar) anchoring the lineup.
Prion are a brutal death metal band from Buenos Aires who have been delivering technically precise extremity since the late 1990s, drawing comparisons to Hate Eternal, Immolation, and Morbid Angel. The band — featuring guitarist/vocalist Gregorio Kochian, bassist Walter Barrionuevo, and drummer Flavio Coscarella — released their full-length debut Impressions in 2008 through Comatose Music, followed by Uncertain Process in 2015 and Aberrant Calamity in 2019.
Profundezas deal in filthy, underground death metal with obscure, philosophically dark lyrical themes. Their 2019 full-length "Seja Feita Vossa Maldade" expanded on the self-titled 2018 debut EP, establishing an uncompromising approach that kept them firmly rooted in the underground São Paulo scene.
Psicodeath is a death metal band from Londrina, Paraná, with roots documented on Metal Archives going back to a 1994 cassette demo titled "Devastated World." The band's early activity placed them among the first wave of extreme metal acts to emerge from Paraná's interior, a region less prominent in the Brazilian death metal canon than São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro.
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