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Medellin, CO · active
Mortiferian is a death metal band from Medellín, Colombia, active since 2008. The band released their debut demo self-titled in 2008 and their first full-length, Casus Morte, in 2013, followed by a return to activity in 2023 with new singles and the 2025 EP Litaniae Funeris Abyssi. Their music explores themes of death, anti-religion, and occultism.
Campos dos Goytacazes, BR · 2013–present · active
Mortiferik is a one-man funeral doom project built around the bleakest end of the death/doom spectrum, drawing on the suffocating pace and crushing despair of the genre's key forebears. The project released the "Empire of Sadness Returns" EP and appeared on the "Doomed Serenades" Brazilian doom compilation, marking it as a committed voice in the country's underground doom scene.
Manaus, BR · 2020–present · active
Mortificy is a brutal death metal band from the Amazon region with a discography spanning two decades, including the albums "Brutal Instinct of Retalliation" (2003), "Unholy Triumph" (2006), and "Burn and Suffer" (2012). Their sound is dense and relentless, rooted in the aggressive traditions of Amazonian extreme metal with anti-religious lyrical themes.
Concepción, CL · 2017–present · active
Mortify is an old-school death metal band from Concepción, Chile, drawing on both classic and progressive influences within the genre. The band released their debut album Mortuary Remains in 2017, followed by their second full-length Fragments at the Edge of Sorrow in 2022.
Santiago, CL · 2019–present · active
Mortifyzer is a metal band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2019 and working across thrash, death, and groove metal. They released their debut EP Nuclear Dust in January 2019, their first recorded statement as a band.
Puerto Montt, CL · 2026–? · disbanded
Mortinatvm is a black metal band from Puerto Montt in southern Chile, formed around 2009. The band released three demos between 2010 and 2012 — Promo (2010), Lucifere ad Ignis Eternitas (2011), and a self-titled demo (2012) — establishing a raw black metal foundation.
Puerto Montt, CL · 2026–present · active
Mortinatvm is a black metal band from Puerto Montt in southern Chile, formed around 2009. The band released three demos between 2010 and 2012 — Promo (2010), Lucifere ad Ignis Eternitas (2011), and a self-titled demo (2012) — establishing a raw black metal foundation.
Santa Gertrudes, BR · 2021–present · active
Mortiço is a one-man black metal project helmed by Andrew Gargula, who recorded the debut album Cumming in your Guts at Home Estúdio Mortal Ways in Rio Claro between January and May 2021. The same year Gargula released a split titled Tempos de Cavalaria alongside Far From Everything, keeping the project active in the tape and digital underground from its first months of existence.
Belo Horizonte, BR · 2020–present · active
Mortom plays a hard-hitting blend of thrash and groove metal from the city that gave the world Sepultura and Sarcófago, drawing naturally from that rich legacy of heaviness. The band released their self-titled debut EP in December 2020, a five-track statement packed with driving riffs and the kind of thick, mid-paced groove that defines the Minas Gerais metal tradition.

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