A fresh entry into the Brazilian raw black metal underground, Malefício operates in the harshest and most primitive end of the genre spectrum, embracing lo-fi production as an aesthetic weapon rather than a limitation. The project launched in 2024 and channels a relentless hatred through minimalist, corrosive songwriting.

Males Fecundos was a Brasília grindcore outfit with members drawn from other local extreme metal projects, channeling social fury and disgust with human mediocrity through blunt, fast-as-possible attacks in the tradition of Napalm Death and Agathocles. Their short run produced a debut EP before the band dissolved.

Malevolence was a São Paulo thrash metal band that carried the torch of the classic Brazilian style with aggressive riffing and a no-frills attitude toward speed and aggression. Active through the mid-2010s, the band was part of a new generation revisiting the raw thrash fundamentals that first put the city on the extreme metal map.

Malevolente is a one-man extreme metal project from Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 2021. Operating as an independent solo effort, the project draws on a wide range of metal subgenres with the goal of crafting a distinctive musical identity, releasing a series of Spanish-language singles and EPs including the seven-deadly-sins-themed Mater series and the 2026 release Anhelo.

Malicia is a Buenos Aires thrash metal band formed in 1995 by vocalist and guitarist Maximiliano Escobar, who built the group around a core lineup that later solidified with guitarist Lucas Bravo, bassist Pablo Maldonado, and drummer Cristian Romero. Over two decades the band has released seven studio albums, including Agresivo (2004), El fin de las religiones (2012), and Neuromuerte (2016), earning a reputation as one of the more prolific acts in the Argentine thrash scene.

A death/grind outfit born out of a desire to fuse the visceral chaos of grindcore with the heaviness of old-school death metal, Malicious Intent released their debut album "Under the Shine of the Ripping Sickle" in 2018, a misanthropic slab recorded in Brasília and mixed in São Paulo. The record channels the ruthless energy of early genre progenitors through 13 tracks of punishing, socially contemptuous extreme metal.

A traditional heavy metal outfit from Sorocaba, São Paulo, Maligna operated within the classic mold of melodic riffing and anthemic song structures before disbanding. Their work reflected the enduring influence of 1980s heavy metal on the Brazilian underground circuit.

Malignant Excremental deliver gore-soaked death metal out of Cuiabá with clear debts to Autopsy and Necrony, reveling in slow-churning, putrid riff work alongside bursts of brutal speed. Their 2022 debut full-length "Descrição Explícita e Brutal da Face da Morte," released through Rotten Foetus Records, established them as one of the more authentically fetid death metal acts to emerge from the Midwest region of Brazil.

Rising from the hot interior of Piauí, Malignitude play a rawly atmospheric strain of black metal with occult and misanthropic leanings, as heard on their debut "Sons of Infernal Land." The record unfolds across six tracks of cold, mid-paced aggression, channeling the bleak grandeur typical of Scandinavian second-wave black metal through a distinctly northern Brazilian lens.