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San Nicolás, AR · 2013–present · active
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.
Lima, PE · active
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.
Santiago, CL · 2025–present · active
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.
Santiago, CL · 2008–present · active
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.
Blumenau, BR · 2020–present · active
Elephantus is a stoner/doom duo from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in 2020 by vocalist and guitarist Marcelo Maus and drummer Andrei Mamede. The band fuses heavy riffing with psychedelic and Brazilian northeastern folk influences, releasing their self-titled debut EP through Electric Funeral Records in June 2020 and the full-length Solstício in 2025.
Passo Fundo, BR · 1991–present · split-up
Embalmed was a death/doom metal band from Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, active during the 1990s. The band recorded two demos — Spiritual Coma (1997) and Alive Forever (1999) — before eventually disbanding, leaving behind a small but representative catalogue of the era's Brazilian underground extreme metal scene.
Niterói, BR · 2013–present · active
Embalsamado is a black/doom metal band from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2013 by members of the established Brazilian black metal act Imperador Belial. The band pursues a morbid and atmospheric extreme metal sound, releasing the full-length Vasta Escuridão in 2018 and following it with Abismo in 2022.
Valparaíso, CL · 2016–present · active
Embers Within is a melodic death/doom metal band from Valparaíso, Chile, who released their debut EP Achromatic Days in March 2016. Their sound weaves slow, heavy doom architecture with melodic death metal passages, drawing on the atmospheric end of the genre.
Rio Segundo/Oliva, AR · 2022–present · active
En la Niebla is a stoner/doom metal power trio from Córdoba province, Argentina, formed in 2021 by guitarist and vocalist Mariano Sacchi, bassist Matias Ghirlanda, and drummer Elo Ciaccio. The band released their debut album, El Limbo de los Callados, on December 13, 2022, a set of fuzz-heavy, low-tuned tracks sung in Spanish with occult and esoteric themes.

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