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Corpus Christi is a death metal and grindcore trio from Buenos Aires, Argentina, formed in 2024 by Pely on guitars and vocals, Marta on drums, and Bruno on bass and vocals. The band moved quickly, releasing their Demo 2024 in April 2024 and following it with the Altares de Satanás EP in July 2024, both recorded at Tribal Records in Buenos Aires and released through Demonical Devastation Records.
Corrosivo is a thrash/death metal band from the cities of Lajeado and Arroio do Meio in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed by members drawn together from different musical backgrounds including influences from Slayer, Obituary, Sepultura, and Venom. The band focuses on heavy and aggressive original compositions and has addressed lyrical themes including political corruption and social inequality.
Corrosivo Explícito is a one-man metal project by multi-instrumentalist Douglas Ribeiro from Araraquara, Brazil, active since 2014. The project draws comparisons to industrial metal acts such as Ministry and Godflesh, and Ribeiro has released tracks including the single “Maquinários De Uma Paz Subserviente.” He is also involved in other projects including Songs of Oblivion and Neon Black Skies.
Corrossive is a death metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, formed in 2015. They released the demo Overcome the Darkness in 2016 before issuing their debut full-length The Great Beyond in 2021, an eleven-track record that draws on death, doom, progressive, and thrash metal influences.
Cosmophage is a death metal band from Brasília, Brazil, formed around 2022 (with roots in a prior project called Utterance active since 2018). Drawing on the mid-1990s European death metal tradition — particularly the Dutch school — the band plays riff-driven, gutted death metal with occult and cosmic horror lyrical themes. Their debut mini-album "Sidereal Malignancy" was released in October 2024 via Me Saco un Ojo (tape) and Blood Harvest (CD).
Costra is a death/thrash metal band from Osorno led by vocalist/guitarist Alessandro Innocenti, whose debut album "Releasing the Hate" (2014) delivered eight tracks of raw, direct metal sung in both Spanish and English. The band had performed live before the album's release, and their material blends thrash aggression with hard rock directness in the tradition of southern Chilean heavy music.
Coveiros is a metal band from Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil, one of the more isolated corners of the Brazilian extreme metal underground. Beginning with a hardcore and early death metal approach, the band shifted toward thrash and death metal over time, releasing a self-titled album in 2007 featuring fourteen tracks. They remain active as an independent act in the Porto Velho metal scene.
COVID-19 is a one-person death metal and goregrind project from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, formed in 2020 by the musician Érdos at the outset of the global pandemic. The project uses the pandemic as both name and lyrical subject, channeling the horror of the coronavirus era into brutal extreme metal. Their EP "When the Traditional Margarine Commercial Family Dies" was released digitally through Póstumo Sölstício Records.
Cranial is a death metal and grindcore band born in Viña del Mar, Chile in 1994, making them one of the longer-running extreme metal acts in the country. The band has released material across several decades, with their 2024 single "Canon" featuring guest drummer Marco Pitruzzella marking a return to activity.
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