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Shelvy is a stoner and doom metal band from Banfield, in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, whose debut full-length Vol. 1 (2018) was recorded between November 2017 and September 2018 at Estudio MAD by Marcelo D'Addona and mastered by Cesar Barrabia at Estudio Rockville. The eight-track album, which includes songs such as "Medusa," "Nautilus," and "Apocalipsis," established the band within Argentina's growing heavy underground scene.
Gothic doom metal band from Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, founded in 1994 — one of the first Brazilian bands in the genre to feature female vocals. The group built a substantial discography across the following decades, including Dance of Shadows (2002), Darklife (2005), Hypnosis (2017), and TERRA (2022), and performed as support for Epica, After Forever, and Evergrey at Brazilian festivals.
Doom metal duo from Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, formed in 2014 by Dean Meadows (guitars, bass, vocals), with Robert Messorem joining on drums in 2017. Their debut release In Death (January 2019), recorded at Mother's House Studio in Juiz de Fora and produced by Leo Schröder, was issued as a limited physical run of 100 copies in Brazil.
Stoner/doom metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, formed in 2019 by Lucas (guitar/vocals), Issac (guitar), Renata (bass), and Gabriel (drums). Their self-titled debut mini-album, released October 21, 2019 through Careless Records, contains five tracks including 'Any Street', 'Insomnia', and 'Witch'.
Sludge/doom metal one-man project from Viamão, Rio Grande do Sul, operated by Baal Mephisto Pheles. The project released its debut full-length 'The Thousand Voices of Demon' in 2017, followed by 'Tenebris' in 2018, the EP 'Forged in Hell' in 2022, and 'Echoes from the Abyss' in 2024.
Somnio are a death/doom metal band from La Serena, Chile, formed in 2011. Their lyrical themes center on ecological and social disaster, oppression, and religion, and they released early demo recordings in 2012 under the title "El cielo se ha vuelto negro."
Superkabras is a stoner/doom metal band from Ambato, Ecuador, playing entirely instrumental music. Active since at least 2014, they have released a series of EPs including Totem Gif (2014), Inorgánico universo (2018), and Alaska (2020), building a catalog of heavy, riff-driven soundscapes rooted in the stoner and doom traditions.
Death/doom metal band from São Paulo, formed in 1996 as a side project by André Pinheiro (guitars and vocals) and Felipe Zagreus (drums and vocals), both members of the black metal band Nocternity. The band recorded and released one demo-tape, Voyeur, in June 1997 at Mr. Som Studio in São Paulo — a four-track release featuring the songs Escapism, Aurora, Voyeur, and Epilogue — and split up without recording any further material.
Søvnløs is a black/doom metal band from Manizales, Colombia, whose lyrical themes draw on Norse mythology, suicide, and depression. Their debut release, the EP Where Lies the Sorrows, appeared in 2019 and blends black metal with atmospheric and suicidal elements.
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