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El Santo Asesino is a death metal and grindcore project from São Paulo, Brazil, founded in late 2013 by guitarist and vocalist Danilo Gonzalez as a one-man band. The project blends extreme metal with industrial and electronic elements, drawing on influences including Nailbomb, Brujeria, and Napalm Death, and released the demo O Inimigo do Meu Inimigo as its debut.
Enucleacion is a death/grind band from Santiago, Chile, operating in the city's underground extreme metal scene. Their debut Demo 2020 was released in December 2020 through Santiago-based underground label Burning Coffin Recs, pressed to a limited run of 100 cassettes with distribution split between Chile and the United States. The label described their sound as a "rotten and chaotic" death/grind assault.
Espancando Cristo is a grindcore and crust punk band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, formed in 2013 and known for blasphemous and satirical lyrical content. The band released their debut demo "Jesus Pop Star" in 2014, a 17-track recording featuring original compositions alongside covers of Magrudergrind and Industrial Holocaust. They followed up with the release "CAOS!" in 2017 and returned to activity in 2025 after a hiatus.
Estado Laico is a grindcore band formed in 2022 in the Pimentas neighborhood of Guarulhos, São Paulo, playing fast and confrontational music rooted in social criticism from a working-class perspective. The four-piece outfit has released multiple recordings including the EP "Vai pro Lixo da História" and subsequent works such as "Estamos no Inferno" and "SISTEMA".
Eutanasia is a death metal and grindcore band from Santiago, Chile, active since 1990. Drawing from the Florida death metal tradition of bands like Cannibal Corpse and early Deicide, they released their debut full-length Exterminio in 2007, later reissued in 2021 by Iron Blood and Death Corporation with additional Promo 2017 tracks.
Exinteratus is a brutal death metal and grindcore duo from Río Bueno, Chile, formed in 2013 by Eneas and Massakre. The project debuted with the demo Ghoulish Mutilation in 2014, followed by the release Penetration Post Mortem, operating within the underground extreme metal scene of southern Chile.
Expurgo is an old-school grindcore band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, active since the late 1990s and a fixture in the Brazilian underground extreme scene. The band released their debut full-length "Burial Ground" in 2013 and followed it with "Deformed by Law" in 2018, both on Black Hole Productions, and have participated in numerous split releases with international acts including Meatus and Shatter Dead.
Exsim were a grindcore/sludge/thrash metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, formed in 2020 and now split-up. Their self-titled debut album, released in May 2020, crams 18 tracks into roughly 16 minutes and was recorded, mixed, and mastered entirely in a home studio by Daniel Farias. Lyrically the record tackles alienation, fear of fascism, and the precariousness of Brazilian working life.
Extreme Hate were a death metal/grindcore band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, active from 1999 until their eventual split-up. The band recorded a series of demos between 2003 and 2006 — including a 2005 session at Barata Studio — which were later compiled on the release Open Wound / Demo(n)s. Their ferocious blend of deathgrind placed them within Belo Horizonte's storied extreme metal underground.
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