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All I Hate is a death metal duo from Sorocaba, São Paulo state, composed of Lucas Berti and Elcio Junior. Since forming in 2021 they have been remarkably prolific, releasing multiple records including 'Soulless Gods Arise', 'Manifesto', and 'Circus', carving out a stripped-down, punishing approach to the genre.
Almagor is a death metal band from Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela, formed in 2007, playing a brutal style that draws from both death metal and grindcore with Christian lyrical themes. The band released the EP Aborto comun in 2012 and their debut full-length Juzgados in 2014, earning recognition in Venezuela and across Latin America.
Amaduscias is a death metal band from Carazinho, Rio Grande do Sul, formed in 2003 and rooted in the fierce extreme metal tradition of southern Brazil. Starting as a black metal act, they evolved into brutal death metal territory, with lyrical themes centered on war, paganism, and the bloody revolutionary history of Rio Grande do Sul; their album "Conceived Annihilation" documents this direction.
Amduat is a death metal solo project from La Paz, Bolivia, created by multi-instrumentalist Gino (Hor) Torrico, who handles drums, guitars, bass, and vocals. The project's debut full-length Paths of the Psyche, recorded at Estudio Powersound in La Paz and released in 2022, draws on themes of occultism, witchcraft, nature, and consciousness within an extreme metal framework.
Ameaça Nuclear — Portuguese for "Nuclear Threat" — was a death metal and grindcore band from São Paulo, Brazil, active from 2020 until their split. The band operated in the tradition of São Paulo's brutal underground extreme metal scene, blending the raw aggression of grindcore with death metal's heavier structures. Their Bandcamp presence documents their brief but intense run in the city's tightly knit extreme metal circuit.
Amenthis was a death metal band from Ceilândia, in the Distrito Federal region of Brazil, with roots in the early 1990s underground scene. The band released a promotional demo titled "Dualism" in 1994 through Genocide Productions, placing them among the first wave of death metal acts to emerge from Brazil's capital satellite cities. Though they eventually split up, their demo stands as a document of the rough, early death metal sound that characterized the Brazilian underground at the time.
Ammit is a death metal and deathcore band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, named after the Egyptian mythological demoness — part lion, hippopotamus, and crocodile — who devoured the hearts of the unworthy dead. The band incorporates lyrical themes drawn from hermetic philosophy and Egyptian mythology, and their sound blends the technicality of modern death metal with the heaviness of deathcore. They gained early visibility opening for Ukrainian metal act Jinjer on the band's Brazilian dates.
Anal Carnage is a death/grind band from Victoria, Chile, whose origins trace back to a grindcore project called Necrosis before the band adopted their current name. They released a self-titled demo in 2007 and followed it with the six-track record "Uncontainable Temptation to Kill" in 2009, establishing a brutal sonic identity rooted in the Chilean underground extreme metal scene.
Anartria was a death metal and grindcore band from Palhoça, Santa Catarina, Brazil, part of the underground extreme metal scene of the state's southern coast. The band blended the punishing brevity of grindcore with death metal heaviness, operating as an independent act before splitting up.
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