Phantom Star draw from the classic heavy metal tradition of Dio and Iron Maiden, blending epic riffing with progressive structures and a cosmic, horror-tinged atmosphere. The Curitiba five-piece — featuring vocalist Matheus Luciano and guitarists Lucas Licheski and Mauricio "The Fox," both veterans of speed metal outfit Hell Gun — debuted with the single "Touch of a Curse" in 2024 and followed it with "I Am the Storm" in 2025.

Piedra Cuarzo is a doom and stoner metal band from Jujuy, Argentina, formed in April 2019 from two pre-existing projects. The four-piece — Gonzalo Mariscal (bass), Nahuel Burgos (guitar), Antonio Cruz (guitar/vocals), and Marcos Rotten (drums) — released their debut EP "XUXUY" in September 2020, blending instrumental and psychedelic elements with heavy, sludge-inflected riffs.

Pietro Bernal is a São Paulo-based guitarist and composer working in the tradition of high-precision instrumental heavy metal and shred, releasing his debut album "Infinite Way" in 2022. His music favors technical fluency and melodic invention over brute force, sitting comfortably alongside the progressive instrumental metal that emerged from the guitar-virtuoso tradition.

Plankton was a heavy metal band from Belém that operated briefly before splitting up, releasing a demo titled Anomalia that circulated through the underground. Their themes touched on metal, life, death, and religion within a traditional heavy metal framework rooted in the northern Brazilian scene.

A Belo Horizonte heavy metal act fronted by vocalist Cynthia Mara, Pleiades built an early reputation opening for Deep Purple on two separate occasions — the first time with guitarist André Mendonça still a teenager. The band contributed a cover of "Woman from Tokyo" to the Deep Purple tribute compilation Woman from Brazil, released by Armadillo Records in 2020.

Founded in 1992, Poseidon is a power trio — Marco Alexandre (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Belmilson Santos (bass), and Marcelo Soto (drums) — whose songwriting ranges across traditional and progressive heavy metal. Their 2018 album At Dream's Door, a concept record inspired by Neil Gaiman's Sandman and recorded at Sign of Sanity in São Paulo, showcases their ambition through flute, sitar, mandolin, synthesizers, and lyrics drawn from Latin, Greek, and Italian texts.

Posesion is a heavy metal band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2018. The band released the Infernal Pact cassette EP in 2018, their debut recording as documented on Discogs.

Posesion is a heavy metal band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2018. The band released the Infernal Pact cassette EP in 2018, their debut recording as documented on Discogs.

Purple AQP is a heavy metal and hard rock solo project by Victor Calvo Llerena, based in Arequipa, Peru. Drawing inspiration from classic heavy metal and hard rock of the 1970s and 1980s, the project released its debut demo Empire Arise in 2019, followed by the full-length Rise and Fall of the Inca's Empire in 2022. The name combines a nod to Deep Purple with AQP, the airport code and common abbreviation for Arequipa.