Jesters & Klowns are a heavy/power metal band from Córdoba, Argentina, whose current lineup consists of Fer Melian (guitar/backing vocals), DD Garcia (drums), and Lahied (bass). The band released their debut album "The Joker King" on March 27, 2018, a ten-track, 56-minute record blending power metal and hard rock. The album is available on Spotify, Apple Music, and Bandcamp.

Kathartica is a heavy and stoner metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2022 by guitarist Gabriel Policarpo and bassist Matheus Motta, with drummer Yael Torres and vocalist Jessé Monteiro completing the lineup. Drawing from classic heavy metal and a wide range of influences, the band blends weight and groove into their metallic sound. They are active on Bandcamp and Spotify as an independent act.

Krusader is a symphonic power metal band from Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 1989. The band's debut album "Angus" (2006) is a concept record based on a fantasy saga with a cult following across South America, Japan, Korea, and Italy, featuring vocalist Rick Ricci (known from fellow Brazilian act Skyscraper) alongside guitarist Paulo Soares and keyboardist Fábio Thesta.

La Hoguera is a heavy/thrash metal band from Santo Tomé, Santa Fe, led by vocalist and guitarist Eduardo "Negro" Cortéz, whose lyrics draw on surrealist imagery mixed with social commentary. Their album "Al acecho" was recorded at Crazy Rabbit Studio in Buenos Aires and released on March 25, 2023, presented live at La Moreno venue in Santa Fe.

Lightyears is a heavy/speed/power metal band from Anápolis, Goiás, Brazil, operating as an unsigned independent act. The band made a compilation appearance with the track "The Black Ritual of War" on the Underground Produções release "Underground Attack Vol. 01", documenting their presence in the Brazilian underground metal circuit. Their lyrical themes center on war, metal, and conflict.

Livin Garden was a heavy/thrash metal quartet from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, active from 2006 to around 2016, featuring Pablo Kravicz and Vinnie Lazzaretti on guitars, Gabriel Canoro on vocals, and Roberto Krug on drums. The band released two studio albums — "Where I Can Breathe" (2009) and "Bring It On" (2014, via Digmetalworld Records) — the latter supported by an extensive US tour of approximately fifty dates culminating in a filmed show at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles. Their sound blended hard rock, southern rock, and thrash influences with nods to Metallica and KISS.

Machinaria were a heavy/thrash metal band from Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Their 2014 debut full-length Sacred Revolutions, Profane Revelations drew comparisons to second-wave American thrash acts such as Sacred Reich and Vio-Lence, and was built around a conceptual examination of the Catholic Inquisition. The album earned the band recognition as a standout name in the new generation of Brazilian thrash.

Makabro is a heavy/thrash/power metal band from Villa Regina, Río Negro, formed in 2014 and active in Argentina's Patagonian underground scene. The band self-released a six-track studio EP in 2022, available on Spotify as "Full EP Estudio 2022", documenting their progressive thrash sound.

Maze of Madness play straightforward heavy and thrash metal with a raw, stripped-back energy, releasing their debut album "Mass Hatred" in July 2022 shortly after forming. The eight-track record plants the band firmly in the tradition of classic thrash aggression without straying far from the genre's foundational template.