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Perpetual Force deal in straightforward heavy metal and hard rock with a classic-era sensibility, delivering riff-driven songs that lean on groove and melody over extremity. Their 2016 debut "Absolute Power" introduced their eight-track blueprint, with tracks exploring themes of religion, justice, and human fallibility.
Persevera built their 2023 debut "Genesis" unconventionally, releasing each of the album's thirteen tracks as a standalone single across two and a half years before compiling them into a 63-minute full-length. The result is a heavy, dense slab of traditional metal drawing comparisons to Grand Magus, with double rhythm guitars anchoring apocalyptic lyrical imagery drawn from the Book of Revelation.
Pethallian is the working name adopted by the Tatuí-based heavy metal project that has also operated as Pettalom, with both identities sharing the same membership and Bandcamp page. Under this banner the group released the album The Absinthe of the Apocalypse in 2012 and Ancient Bloody Europe in 2013, delivering a dark and melodic brand of traditional metal.
Phantom Menace traffic in occult-drenched speed and black metal with a vampyric edge, releasing a rapid string of singles and EPs in 2023 including All the Witches Hail, Chained in Lust, and the Night Galleries collection. Their raw, first-wave-informed attack pulls from the same vein as early Bathory and Venom with a Brazilian underground sensibility.
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.
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