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Neural Abyss play old-school death metal rooted in misanthropy and nihilism, with a sound that draws on the early Brazilian death metal tradition. The Campina Grande three-piece — Vitor Giovanni on bass and vocals, Luênya Van Ripper on guitar, and Relrys Silva on drums — released their debut full-length Everything Is Over in late 2025 via My Dark Desires Records.
Neural Death is a young death metal outfit from Franca whose 2024 demo Guerras announced their arrival with three tracks of blunt, unpolished brutality. The trio — Aladdin on guitars, Iury on drums, and Sarthory handling bass and vocals — recorded the demo at Sala 7 studio and released it in early 2024.
Neural Dissonance is a progressive death metal band from Santiago, Chile, featuring guitarist Roger Meirelles, bassist Israel Aguilar, vocalist and synthesizer player Enzo Dañobeytía, and drummer David Astorga. The band released their debut album "Under a Rain of Senses" on April 28, 2023, a ten-track record mixed and mastered at Nihil Records that blends technical death metal structures with groove and progressive elements.
Neural Oestridae is a solo depressive black metal project born from a need to channel depression, despair, and nihilism into sound rather than keep them internal. The project debuted with the homemade demo Tired of All in 2016 and has since contributed to compilations of the Brazilian DSBM underground, including Coletânea de DSBM Nacional volumes.
Neural Wreck is the one-man progressive thrash project of JC Martins, whose debut EP Mortal Obsession (2015) drew on the precision of Exodus and the melodic ambition of Queensrÿche to build a sound that's technically driven but never cold. The project's follow-up single "Beautiful Day (Killing People)" continued that thread with lyrics grounded in class consciousness and political critique, making Neural Wreck one of the more deliberately minded voices in the São Paulo underground.
Neurax is a death/thrash and grindcore band from Mendoza, Argentina, formed in 2020 by guitarists Nicolás Romeo and Mario Salcedo, vocalist Iván Morel, and drummer Valja. The band debuted with the five-track Tongue Nailing EP in December 2020, recorded and mixed at GRUNT Records in Mendoza.
Neuro Attack plays straight-ahead thrash metal rooted in the classic Minas Gerais underground, formed in 2016 and quickly releasing their debut EP Thrash Returns before following it with a full-length in 2018. Their sound leans on tight riffing and no-frills aggression, staying close to the genre's '80s Bay Area and German roots.
Emerging from the wreckage of Corrosive Nausea, Neuro-Visceral Exhumation spent the early 2000s releasing some of the most unhinged goregrind to come out of Brazil, including Mass Murder Festival (2003) and The Human Society Wants More Gore (2004). The band periodically resurfaced over the years, most recently issuing Thou Shalt Be Slaughtered in 2021 and Gruesome Body Count in 2022 before going quiet again.
Neurotóxico brought a technically ambitious edge to the Brasília extreme metal scene, blending aggressive thrash foundations with death metal dissonance on their 2015 debut demo Web of Terror. The nine-track demo was produced by Zé Misanthrope at Less Than Zero Studio and featured a twin-guitar attack from Guilherme Lee and Pedro Azoth underpinning the caustic vocals of Gabriel Mosna.
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