Bad Salad is a progressive metal band from Brasília, Brazil, formed in 2007 by brothers Thiago Campos (guitar) and Felipe Campos (bass) alongside drummer Caco Gonçalves. Their debut album Uncivilized (2012) earned international critical acclaim for its complex songwriting and songs regularly exceeding ten minutes, drawing comparisons to Dream Theater and Opeth; the follow-up EP Puzzled appeared in 2013. The band was handpicked by Mike Portnoy to perform on the Progressive Nation at Sea cruise in 2014, one of the few Brazilian acts to achieve that distinction.

Ben Baruk is a Christian symphonic and progressive metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2018 by musicians united by shared faith and a drive to create heavy, introspective music. Their debut EP "Vidas que Choram" (2018) featured six Portuguese-language tracks blending symphonic arrangements with metal influenced by Periphery, TesseracT, Paradise Lost, and Paramaecium. The band has since evolved their lineup and shifted to English-language songwriting while maintaining their progressive and extreme metal identity.

Blackcircle are a Santiago-based experimental progressive metal band signed to Australis Records, a Chilean label dedicated to metal from the southern tip of the world. Their album "Requiem in Silence," recorded by brothers Jorge and Raúl Drolett, is an eight-track work blending experimental death metal with black metal atmospheres, released as a 200-copy digipack CD through Australis Records.

Blacktorch is a Buenos Aires instrumental progressive metal band led by guitarist Juan Polastri alongside co-founder Gabriel Pozzo on drums. Their debut album Gravitational Collapse, released on October 24, 2023, uses the physics of gravitational collapse as a conceptual framework, blending modern metal with elements of jazz and rock.