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Santo André, BR · 2008–present · split-up
Founded in Santo André by Daniel Curtolo and Victor Prospero, Necromesis spent nearly a decade working through an increasingly ambitious run of releases — from the 2009 demo The Dark Works of Art through the EPs Evolving to an Underworld (2011) and Echoes of a Memory (2014) to the full-length The Poet's Paradox (2015) — blending visceral death metal with progressive and thrash underpinnings. The band is also notable as the launchpad for vocalist Mayara Puertas, known as May Undead, who recorded Echoes of a Memory and The Poet's Paradox before departing in 2015 to become the frontwoman of Torture Squad.
Córdoba, AR · 2018–present · active
Necropolis is a death metal band from Córdoba, Argentina, featuring guitarists and vocalists Guillermo Gomez and Pablo Camiletti alongside bassist Pedro Larrahona and drummer Juan Bustos. They released their debut album Incertidumbre in 1999 and followed it with a second full-length, There Is a Place, in 2007, and have continued performing in the Córdoba metal scene into the present.
Porto Alegre, BR · 2023–present · active
A long-running death metal band from the Rio Grande do Sul underground, active since the early 1990s and known for a relentless, gore-infused approach rooted in the old-school tradition. Their catalog spans releases such as "We Work for the Devil," a live document titled "Live Desecrations," and the 2022 full-length "Death to Traitors."
Curitiba, BR · 1993–present · active
A Curitiba thrash institution that blends guttural vocals with churning riff work and a tightly locked rhythm section, striving for what the band themselves describe as the right balance of speed, weight, and harmonic result. After a mid-decade split they reformed in 2020 and released "Inhuman Pestilence" (2021), following a catalog that includes "Devastated by Time" (2008), "Made with Evil" (2010), and "Toward Insanity" (2013).
Canoas, BR · 2025–present · split-up
A short-lived one-man black metal project driven by its sole member Nekrose, channeling themes of melancholy, depression, and internal struggle into nine tracks of emotional intensity on the 2025 album "Inexistencial Inexistência." The band dissolved the same year the album was released.
Pernambuco, BR · 2024–present · active
A self-described "old school death metal fleshcult" from Pernambuco whose approach owes a clear debt to the goregrind end of early 1990s extremity — their Repulsion cover signals as much. They debuted with the 2024 demo "Anatomy of the Grotesque" and followed it with the "Frenzied Necrotiscism" EP.
EC · active
Necropyre is a Death/Black Metal band from Ecuador, active since 2021. Their self-titled "Demo I," released in July 2021, features four tracks of raw extreme metal written and performed entirely by the band, with all music and lyrics credited to Necropyre. The demo was self-released independently on Bandcamp under the straightforward descriptor "Metal from Ecuador."
PE · active
Necros Spirifer is a black metal band from Arequipa, Peru, formed in 2024 and dedicated to themes of sacrifices, sorcery, chaos, and darkness. The band released their debut demo "Abysmus Primigenus - We Preserve the Ancient Wisdom" in 2025, a six-track recording that announced their arrival in the Peruvian black metal underground.
Punta Alta, AR · 2013–present · split-up
Necrosis was a thrash metal band from Punta Alta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, active from 1992 until their split. They released a demo in 1996 and contributed the track "A Pacto de Morir" to the compilation El Lado Oscuro de la Fé Tape, released on Falsa Fe Fanzine in 1997.

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