Natan Cunha is a guitarist from Chapada Diamantina who records fully instrumental solo albums, handling all guitars, bass, solos, and drums himself. His debut The Art of Existence (2019) and follow-up Synaptical Omnifarious (2020) move across progressive metal, death metal, jazz fusion, and neoclassical territory, demonstrating a wide technical range underpinned by baião-inflected rhythmic sensibilities from his native Bahia.

Nawak grew out of the earlier project Arkhangel, a group of Limeira musicians who began jamming together in 1999 covering acts like Angra, Iron Maiden, and Stratovarius before steering toward progressive metal. The band issued the demo Prelude under the Arkhangel name in 2002 before adopting the Nawak moniker, then released their debut full-length Trilogy of Rain through Hellion Records in 2005 with a lineup built around guitarist duo Anderson Borges and Amauri Bosco, keyboardist Rafael Barbieri, and vocalist Rodrigo Citta.

Nādha released their self-titled debut in 2022, a ten-track record that weaves progressive and death metal into a bilingual framework of philosophical and introspective themes, drawing on Sanskrit imagery in the band's name. The Rio quintet — featuring guitarists Juan Carlos and Rafael Rassan alongside drummer Jean Falcão — balances technical density with melody, moving between Portuguese and English across tracks like "Anāhata" and "Ephemeral Being".