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Diskordia is a grindcore band from Curicó, Maule, Chile with a catalog stretching back to 2012, including the album "Lobotomia Social" (2012), a split with Brazilian act Arquivo Morto (2013), the full-length "Exterminio!" (2015), and the "Traküm" EP (2017). The band operates independently within Chile's underground extreme music network.
DisnneyHell is a grindcore/death metal band from Capivari, São Paulo, Brazil, active since the mid-2010s and influenced by the likes of Napalm Death, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, and Terrorizer. Prior to their debut full-length, the band built their catalog with a 2008 demo, the EP Destruindo um Mundo de Fantasia (2012), and a live recording from 2017. Their debut album O Jardim dos Esquecidos (The Garden of the Forgotten) features ten tracks sung entirely in Portuguese, channeling the anger and intensity typical of the genre.
Displeasure is a grindcore and death metal band from La Plata, Buenos Aires, formed in 2020. They released the album "Enraizar el alma en lo complejo del odio" in February 2024 and contributed the track "Montañas de la locura" to the compilation "Sick Musik to Your Guts" later that year.
Distortum is a grindcore and death metal band from Trelew, Chubut, one of the few extreme metal acts to emerge from Argentina's Patagonian interior. Their early demos "Descerebrado lentamente" (1996) and "Descomposición acelerada" (1997) established their place in the Argentine underground extreme metal scene of the 1990s.
Dr. Zaius is a grindcore band from Santiago, Chile, tracing their roots to the early 1990s underground act Proteus Mirabilis before continuing under the Dr. Zaius name from 2000 onward. The band released the EP "Music From My Fist" in 2006 and the "Sociedad Infectada" EP in 2016, both recorded in Santiago and self-released through their own SIMIO DEMENTE Productions imprint.
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".
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