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Quito, EC · active
Lord Devastador is an Ecuadorian black/death metal solo project with roots stretching back to Quito in 1996, when it was active as a band before disbanding in 2000 and relaunching as a one-man outfit. The project's 2014 release "Infernal Holocaust" compiled two unreleased demos from 1998 and 2000 with remastered sound, showcasing a raw, Deathrashing Metal style sung entirely in Spanish.
São José dos Campos, BR · 2021–present · active
Los Suffers is a doom/sludge/death metal trio from São José dos Campos, Brazil, consisting of Luiz Dias (vocals/guitar), Jean Carreira (bass), and Brendan Kitchen (drums). The band released their debut full-length "Quando A Chama Se Apaga" in March 2022, a six-track album spanning over fifty minutes of heavyweight doom recorded at AS Studio in São José dos Campos. The record drew praise from the international doom and stoner metal press, with Doomed and Stoned highlighting it as a standout entry in Brazil's underground heavy scene.
Bogotá, CO · active
Lostrahuman is a death metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, formed in 2022, featuring Diego Meneses on vocals, Jaime Briceño on bass, Ivan De Avila on drums, and Alex Gomes and Alexander Torres on guitars. The band released their debut EP "Wrath of the Lamb" in 2022, with lyrical concepts exploring the individual human experience against socioeconomic and political inequality through satirical and horrific allegory.

M26

Pelotas, BR · 2021–present · active
M26 is an atmospheric doom/death metal band from Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2021. The band incorporates female vocals into their heavy, melancholic sound, and released their debut album "Misantropia" in February 2021 through Bandcamp.
Porto Alegre, BR · 1993–present · split-up
Rooted in the fertile death metal underground of Porto Alegre, Malediction formed in the early 1990s when that city's scene was producing some of the continent's most intense extreme metal. Their output reflects the old-school brutality and direct aggression that defined Brazilian death metal in that era before the band eventually dissolved.
Bogotá, CO · active
Malevolente is a one-man extreme metal project from Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 2021. Operating as an independent solo effort, the project draws on a wide range of metal subgenres with the goal of crafting a distinctive musical identity, releasing a series of Spanish-language singles and EPs including the seven-deadly-sins-themed Mater series and the 2026 release Anhelo.
Brasília, BR · 2018–present · active
A death/grind outfit born out of a desire to fuse the visceral chaos of grindcore with the heaviness of old-school death metal, Malicious Intent released their debut album "Under the Shine of the Ripping Sickle" in 2018, a misanthropic slab recorded in Brasília and mixed in São Paulo. The record channels the ruthless energy of early genre progenitors through 13 tracks of punishing, socially contemptuous extreme metal.
Cuiabá, BR · 2020–present · active
Malignant Excremental deliver gore-soaked death metal out of Cuiabá with clear debts to Autopsy and Necrony, reveling in slow-churning, putrid riff work alongside bursts of brutal speed. Their 2022 debut full-length "Descrição Explícita e Brutal da Face da Morte," released through Rotten Foetus Records, established them as one of the more authentically fetid death metal acts to emerge from the Midwest region of Brazil.
Belo Horizonte, BR · active
Taking their name from the infamous 15th-century witch-hunting manual, this Belo Horizonte outfit channels the sinister crossroads between black and death metal with a sound rooted in darkness, blasphemy, and extreme aggression. Operating from one of Brazil's most historically fertile metal cities, Malleus Maleficarum carry forward the traditions of the Minas Gerais extreme underground.

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