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Dissonant Structures is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Ambato, Ecuador. They released their debut EP, Forgive but Never Surrender, in 2019, blending the aggression of thrash with the melodic sensibilities of the Scandinavian death metal tradition.
Final Disaster is a São Paulo-based melodic death and groove metal band who describe their sound as Horror Metal, pairing dual vocalists Kito Vallim and Deborah Moraes with a lineup of Rodrigo Alves and Lucas Meow on guitars, Felipe KBÇA on bass, and Bruno Garcia on drums. Their 2021 debut full-length Halls of Despair, produced by Raphael Gazal, is a thirteen-track concept album built around a serial killer narrative and includes guest appearances from Wall Almeida and Caio Botrel. The band also contributed a Deep Purple cover to the 2020 compilation The Brazilian Tribute to Deep Purple on Armadillo Records.
Infested Co is a melodic death/groove metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, active since 2009. The band released their debut EP Treason Walls in 2014, a six-track record that blends melodic death metal riffing with groove-driven heaviness and lyrics touching on themes of hate and violence.
Low Levels of Serotonin is a melodic death/doom metal project from Americana, São Paulo, Brazil, led by multi-instrumentalist Wilian Gonçalves, formerly the guitarist of Desdominus. The band released their debut album Katharsis in 2019 through Heavy Metal Rock Records, followed by a second album, In the Entrails of My Mind, in 2022. Their sound combines heavy, melancholic riffing with introspective lyrics and significant tempo variation across both records.
Matarte is a three-piece metal band from Punta Alta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, formed around 2013, consisting of vocalist Ulises Kaliléc, guitarist/bassist Jonathan Bazan, and drummer Agnatne Ajeivut. The band released their album "Sangra Maldad Eterna" on June 6, 2020, a ten-track record recorded, mixed, and mastered at Tumumu Untungu Home Studio in Punta Alta. Their sound blends melodic death and thrash metal with occult lyrical themes, as heard on tracks like "Dioses Muertos" and "Sacrificio Infernal".
A one-man project helmed by Matheus Leonel, previously of Midnight Loss, Morphin merges the languishing weight of funeral doom with melodic death metal's emotional melodicism. The project inhabits a space between isolation and fragile beauty, shaped entirely by Leonel's solo compositional vision.
Myrkgand is essentially a one-man project driven by Dmitry Luna, whose 2017 debut album enlisted guest appearances from members of Symphony X, Novembers Doom, Mystifier, and Korzus to flesh out its mythology-drenched blend of melodic death, black, and folk metal. The 2022 follow-up Rituals & Wisdom was recorded in Oslo and Lisbon with Øystein Brun of Borknagar producing, pushing the project's ambitions into genuinely international territory.
Obsoleto is a Buenos Aires melodic death/metalcore band founded in 2017 by guitarists Ezequiel Zuazo and Patricio Puyo, later joined by vocalist Roberto Wolk and drummer Sebastian Lecoque. The band's English-language lyrics draw on science fiction source material — Terminator, Blade Runner, and Westworld among them — exploring themes of artificial intelligence rebellion against humanity. Their debut album Awakening was released in February 2022.
Founded by vocalist Tiago Monteiro and guitarist Mad Ferreira, Ode Insone blend gothic doom with melodic death metal and lyrical darkness sung entirely in Portuguese. In the span of three years they released three albums — Relógio (2018), A Origem da Agonia (2019), and Isolamento: Do Silêncio à Poesia (2020) — each weaving slow, heavy riffs into poetry-driven reflections on despair and existential isolation.
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