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A Day to Fall is a groove metal and melodic death metal project formed in 2011 with Argentine musicians, releasing the album Architects of Hate along with tracks such as Southern Flame and What Lies Ahead. The band blends melodeath intensity with metalcore-driven heaviness, drawing on the members' roots in the Argentine underground scene.
A doom/black/gothic metal act from Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro state, founded in 2023 and already prolific with releases including Absence of Life (2023), Abstract Existence, and Scars of Divine Rebellion. Their lyrical themes circle death, mourning, misanthropy, and cosmic introspection, channeling the slow-burning despair of the doom-death tradition into a blackened gothic frame.
A heavy metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, active from 2010 until their split-up. Operating out of the northeastern Brazilian metal underground, they released music through their Bandcamp page, blending traditional heavy metal within a scene more commonly dominated by extreme genres.
A deathcore band from Belém, Pará, in the Amazon region of northern Brazil, formed in 2014 with a lineup of Leonan Ferreira (vocals), Igor Sampaio and Vinicius Carvalho (guitars), Marcos Saraiva (bass), and Luciano Camara (drums). Their discography spans a decade of independent releases including A Red Nightmare (2014), Thousand Blind Eyes (2020), and Through Vile Lens (2024), with themes of pain, social critique, and suffering delivered through technical and aggressive deathcore.
A progressive death metal band from Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, formed in 2015 and catalogued in the Encyclopaedia Metallum. They operate within the technically demanding intersection of progressive and death metal, a style that has seen steady growth in Brazil's interior state of Minas Gerais alongside peers drawing from both the complexity of prog and the brutality of death metal.
A gothic doom/death metal band originally formed in Sapucaia do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, and now based in Porto Alegre, active since 1996 and among the longer-standing acts in southern Brazil's melancholic metal underground. Their discography includes Toward Nothingness (2009) and Passion (2015), with a sound rooted in My Dying Bride-influenced death-doom that incorporates violin and keyboards alongside vocals from a rotating cast; they appeared on a Brazilian tribute to My Dying Bride in 2020.
A short-lived melodic death/doom metal project from Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro state, that formed and split up within 2024. In that brief window they released the album Ephemeral, a record framed philosophically as reflections on impermanence, featuring tracks like Epitaph, Dawn Behold the Mourning, and Denouement.
A.D.H.E.R. is a heavy/thrash metal band from Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, whose name is taken from the title of a Hermética song. The band released the album De otras tierras, recorded and mixed in Tierra del Fuego in 2006 and issued in 2007 through Argentina Thrash Metal, reflecting the raw, isolated energy of Argentina's southernmost metal scene.
A.L.M.A. is a groove and death metal band from Chascomús, Buenos Aires Province, active in the Argentine underground metal circuit. The band is documented on Encyclopaedia Metallum and released Demo 1, marking their entry into the local extreme metal scene.
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