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Bleak Transcendence is a funeral doom/death metal trio from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 2023 by Alexandre Antunes, Michael Siegwarth, and Wagner Müller. The band released their debut album "Mortuanima" in May 2025, a 48-minute work fusing the ferocious intensity of death metal with hauntingly slow funeral doom, enriched by synths, violins, and ethereal textures conveying desolation and introspection.
Bleak Wind is an atmospheric black metal solo project from Bom Despacho, Minas Gerais, Brazil, created by Marina Sant'Ana. The project has released a steady stream of independent recordings since 2019, including "Memories to Forget..." (2019), "Light and Darkness" (2021), and several releases in 2023–2025, crafting introspective, melancholic soundscapes rooted in atmospheric black metal.
Bleakness were a Buenos Aires gothic metal and rock act whose lineup included vocalist/guitarist Leonel Arregui, guitarist Juan Manuel Reyes, vocalist Cristian Fabre, bassist Guillermo Pajaro, and drummer Marcelo Gonçalves dos Santos. The band released their debut demo "Out Of Here" in 2008, blending moody gothic textures with a hard rock edge before gradually shifting toward a grungier sound. They have since split up.
Bleed is a death metal band from Rancagua, Chile, formed in 2008 out of a shared love for extreme sounds and vintage horror cinema, influences that shape both their music and lyrical content. Their debut LP Ritual Decapitation appeared in 2017, followed by Magna Morte with a revised lineup including drummer Víctor Sepúlveda and guitarist Brandon Acosta, and the live document Rotten Sessions Live in 2023.
Bleed for Me are a Buenos Aires black/doom metal band who have been active, under various interruptions, since the early 2000s, releasing a self-titled album, "The End...", and the full-length "Reborn" in 2017. Their music dwells on themes of sadness, pain, and despair, rendered through slow, crushing doom riffs layered with black metal atmospherics. The band has remained independent throughout their career.
Bleeding is a death metal band from São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, listed on Metal Archives as an independent, now split-up act. The band was part of the underground death metal scene of Brazil's interior São Paulo state, operating without major label support during their active years.
Blessed is a death metal band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The band is notable in the local extreme metal history as former members went on to form Rebaelliun, a prominent Brazilian brutal death metal act that gained international recognition in the late 1990s. Blessed operated as an independent act and has since split up.
Blessed in Fire is a power metal band from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, active since the early 2000s and independent. The band is part of the Brazilian power metal scene rooted in Salvador, with early releases including a rehearsal recording titled "Dead & Alive" (2003), and continues to be active in the regional metal community.
Blind One Came were a death metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, active from 2009 until splitting up sometime after 2013. Their sole full-length, Remnants, was released in 2010, and the band appeared on the Patria Extrema Vol. 1 compilation in 2013.
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