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Bestiarum is a melodic death metal band formed in 2018 in La Plata, Argentina, drawing on the Gothenburg sound of bands like At the Gates, In Flames, and Soilwork. Their 2020 debut album Entropy was recorded and mixed at Octavarium Studios in La Plata and includes a music video for the title track featuring guest vocalist Björn Strid of Soilwork. The band has remained active since their formation.
Blakk Market is a thrash/melodic death metal band from Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed by former members of Despotic alongside vocalist Fernando Melleu. The band released a demo, "Hateful Affection," followed by their debut full-length "Self-Improvement: Suicide" in 2011, a ten-track record dealing with themes of personal integrity and nihilism. They were active within the southern Brazilian metal circuit before going on hold around 2017.
Burning Dusk is a melodic death metal band from Valparaíso, Chile, originally founded in 1999 and later reconstituted around 2014. The band released the four-track EP "Shameful Angel" in May 2014 and followed it with the full-length "Scavenger of Light" in 2015, drawing on Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal while maintaining an independent status.
Cosecha Lagrimas is a melodic death metal band from Mar del Plata, Argentina, drawing clear influence from the Scandinavian melodic death tradition — their Bandcamp catalog includes the tracks "Corazón Flamígero" and "Animus Meminisse Horret", and in 2016 they released a live EP alongside a recording of Sentenced's "May Today Become the Day". The band celebrated their seventh anniversary with a live performance in Mar del Plata in 2014, marking them as one of the longer-running melodic death acts on Argentina's Atlantic coast.
Crossfear is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2012. The band released their debut EP "Survive Through Fear" on October 10, 2012, a four-track release recorded at Estúdio Magma featuring tracks such as "Compromise," "War of Ideals," and "Scars of Life." They have continued as an independent act within the ABC Paulista region's metal underground.
Cubos is a death metal band from Viña del Mar, Chile, who describe their style as "modern old school death metal" and pair it with a pixel art aesthetic. Their debut album "Música para el Fin del Mundo" was released in August 2020 and includes seven tracks, among them "Interludio 8 bit," reflecting their chiptune-influenced visual and sonic identity.
Céu em Chamas is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Itapira, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2014. The band draws from a wide range of extreme music including punk, hardcore, grindcore, and thrash while maintaining a melodic core, and released their debut EP "Sopro da Destruição" in 2014 followed by the full-length "Infernal" in 2017, recorded at Black Stone Studio.
D.A.M is a melodic death metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, founded by guitarist and composer Guilherme De Alvarenga as a project fusing compositional techniques drawn from classical music with heavy metal intensity. The band explores themes of occultism and the darker aspects of the human psyche, and their early work established a style that later incorporated folk and epic metal elements alongside their melodic death metal foundation.
Daedius is a progressive technical death metal band from La Ligua, in Chile's Valparaíso region, formed by a lineup including guitarists Francisco Lara and Jorge Salinas alongside vocalist Matias Espinoza. Their debut album 'Of Chaos and Resurgence', released in September 2018, presents seven tracks mixed and mastered by Darío Llancamán at Llancamaiden Studios.
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