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Dirty Grave is a doom metal band from Orlândia, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2013 by vocalist/bassist Mark Rainbow and guitarist Victor Berg, drawing heavily from proto-doom forebears like Black Sabbath and Pentagram while incorporating blues and psychedelia. The band released their debut full-length "Evil Desire" in 2017 and followed it with "Sin After Death" in 2019, the latter celebrating Satan and old-school metal. With two albums and several EPs, their releases have received coverage in international specialized metal media.
Dom Lodo is a stoner/doom metal trio from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, formed in May 2017 from the remnants of the band Electric Mooker. The group, featuring Anderson Moss on vocals and bass, Peter Vitus on guitar, and AD Luna on drums, released the single and EP "The Bastard" in late 2017, drawing on sludge, proto-metal, and doom influences.
Doomed Spirits is a one-man black/death/doom metal project from João Pessoa, Paraíba, created by musician Mad Ferreira (also known from Ode Insone and Etheralys). The project released its debut album "Last Reflections" in May 2020, a dark and heavy work with eight tracks exploring themes of despair and mortality through a blend of doom and death metal textures with black metal overtones.
Doomslang is a doom/stoner metal band from Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil, featuring vocalist Sofia Nasar alongside guitars, bass, and drums. The band released the EP "Pier Della Vigna" in September 2020, a female-fronted traditional doom effort spanning four tracks.
Dromo is a Buenos Aires trio formed in 2023 by Fernando Valdez (vocals), Lisandro Contreras (guitars/bass), and Javier Ruíz (drums), playing heavy doom-inflected metal. The band released their self-titled EP on February 1, 2025, a three-track effort recorded at Basement Estudios and LOC Estudio and mixed and mastered by Contreras himself.
EerieLowMoon is a sludge/doom trio from San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina, comprising Ivo Hayduk on guitars and vocals, Franco Fruci on bass and vocals, and Bruno Fruci on drums. Their debut album 'Low Moon' (December 2013) was produced by Sergio Chotsourian of Los Natas, and was followed by 'Midnight Despair' in January 2020.
El Hijo de la Aurora (Spanish for "Son of the Dawn") is a Peruvian doom metal and psychedelic rock band formed in Lima on May 2, 2008, by drummer and composer Joaquín Cuadra and guitarist Manolo Garfias. The band has explored themes of witchcraft, occultism, and philosophy across four studio releases, including Lemuria (2008), Wicca: Spells, Magic and Witchcraft Through the Ages (2010), and The Enigma of Evil (2015), with the latter released through Minotauro Records.
El Árbol de la Horca is a Santiago-based extreme metal band that debuted in 2025 with the EP Abismo Inevitable, a five-track release combining crushing sludge doom, stoner heaviness, and bursts of grindcore intensity. The band describes their sound as slow, heavy, and miserable, punctuated by occasional injections of merciless brutality.
Electrozombies are a Santiago trio — Comegato on guitar and vocals, Marcela Z on fuzz bass, and Paola Z on drums — playing a down-tuned blend of old-school death metal, sludge, and crust. Their discography includes the 2013 full-length Skull of Chaos and the 2024 album Ancestral Terror, with the band drawing conceptual inspiration from consumerism, electrification, and slow, putrid heaviness.
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