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One-person black/death metal project from Rio de Janeiro in which the sole member records all instruments under the name Bestial Vomit. The debut recording Bloody Exorcism - The First Damnation appeared in May 2024, followed by the demo Crushing the Messiah - The Second Damnation in May 2025.
Death metal quartet from Bauru, São Paulo, formed in late 2020, featuring Luis Felipé Salazar on vocals, Vitor Caricati on guitar, Jeferson Tarzia on bass, and Nestor Carrera on drums — the latter a former member of Escarnium. The band debuted with the EP Genocidal Resolution (January 2022) on Redefining Darkness Records, then released the debut album On the Perspective of an Imminent Downfall (October 26, 2022) and the follow-up Shrapnels of a Panic Spiral (November 1, 2024), the latter mixed at RMS Estúdio and mastered by Noah C. Buchanan at Mercenary Studios in Cleveland.
Death metal band from Várzea Paulista, São Paulo, with a lineup of Wesley Gomides on vocals, Fernando Romano on guitars, Igor Dead on bass, and Marco "Porco" on drums. Their debut full-length As the Slurry Consumes was recorded at Sotão Studio and released in August 2024 on Iron Fortress Records and Rotten Tomb Records. The album is dedicated to the memory of the band's late associate Luciano Battistini.
Thrash and death metal band from Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, formed in 2015. The band features James Pugens on vocals, Alex Rodrigues on guitars, Marcello Caminha Filho on bass, and Machine on drums, and released the EP Empires Will Fall in 2013 and the full-length Inhuman Sovereign on October 28, 2015, recorded at Jardim Elétrico Studios.
One-person death metal and grindcore project from Minas Gerais, Brazil, with all instruments and vocals handled by Jefferson Death. The band released the EP Nascer, viver, morrer e apodrecer... in January 2018, a five-track collection tagged as old school splatter death metal whose tracklist includes "Diário de um Legísta" and "O Estripador."
Death metal band from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, whose 2016 EP Visions of Autopsy preceded their debut full-length Necroceremony Vomitorum, released in June 2021 through Awakening Records on a limited CD pressing of 1,000 copies. The album features nine tracks including a cover of Autopsy's 'Gasping for Air,' placing the band in the tradition of early death metal acts such as Impetigo and Asphyx.
One-man doom/death metal project created by Bruno Zr in Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2019. The debut album Isolation was released in December 2020 and contains five tracks, including 'The Ward Pt.1,' which addresses the psychiatric hospital atrocities committed in Barbacena from the 1960s through the 1980s — an event documented in Daniela Arbex's book and sometimes called the 'Brazilian Holocaust,' in which more than 60,000 people died.
One-man death metal project from Caetité, Bahia, Brazil, founded in early 2024 by guitarist Eduardo Henrique Dias (known as Eddie). The debut album Gateways of Purgatory was released on November 30, 2024, an eight-track record drawing influence from Death, Carcass, Obituary, and Vomitory.
Black/death metal band from São João da Boa Vista, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2019. The quintet — Guilherme Melo (vocals), André Guimarães and Luiz Fernando Matiello (guitars), Guilherme Mendes (bass), and Leonardo Michelazzo (drums) — released their debut full-length Prophecies of Plague in June 2020, drawing on themes of the Black Plague, religious abuse of power, and cosmic horror. Their second album IX followed in 2022, a nine-track record released independently on Bandcamp and streaming platforms.
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