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Puah is a technical and groove metal band from Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela, active since 2007. Their 2014 debut full-length "Kharma" is a 14-track album delivered entirely in Spanish, showcasing the djent and math metal influences that define their approach.
Pugnari is a death metal project from Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Pernambuco, founded during the pandemic by Williams Ângelo (guitars and vocals) and Rafael Batista (drums). The band released the single "Rotten Devotion" in September 2023, followed by "Call Cthulhu" in 2024.
Punishment was a thrash/death metal band from Paraguaçu, Minas Gerais, formed in the late 1990s by brothers Elderson and Élson Prado alongside vocalist Camaroon. The band recorded the demo "Infernal World" in 2003 and followed it with the re-recorded "Enter the Punisher" in 2006, and shared festival stages with Korzus, Torture Squad, and Ratos de Porão at events including Roça'n Roll.
Pure Hate is a groove/thrash metal band from Maceió, Alagoas, active since 2020 as an independent act. The band placed two tracks — "Racional" and "Vida de Ninguém" — on the 2020 digital compilation The Iguana's Attäck Vol. 3, their earliest documented release.
Purple AQP is a heavy metal and hard rock solo project by Victor Calvo Llerena, based in Arequipa, Peru. Drawing inspiration from classic heavy metal and hard rock of the 1970s and 1980s, the project released its debut demo Empire Arise in 2019, followed by the full-length Rise and Fall of the Inca's Empire in 2022. The name combines a nod to Deep Purple with AQP, the airport code and common abbreviation for Arequipa.
Purulence was an all-female death metal and grindcore quartet from Botucatu, São Paulo, formed in 1992 by Alessandra (vocals), Simone (guitar), Cassia (vocals and drums), and Ludmilla (bass). The band released the split "Going the Putrid Reality" in 1995 alongside New York Against the Belzebu, and are documented as the first all-female grindcore band in Latin America.
Pustulent is a one-man death metal project from Sorocaba run by Leandro, who also performs in the band Cadaveric Mutation. The debut release "Purulent Flesh Infection," a five-track EP issued in 2024 on Iron Fortress Records, opens with a sample from Lucio Fulci's 1981 film House by the Cemetery and draws comparisons to Carcass for its gore-themed riffing; the same year saw a second release, "Septic Liquid Excretion," and an appearance on the split "Splitmas Gorefest."
Putrefact Christ is a raw black metal and grindcore band from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, formed in 2024 with Satanic and anti-Christian lyrical themes. Their debut album "Black Metal Against You All" was released on May 12, 2024 through Jems Label as a limited cassette of 30 copies, containing nine tracks including "We Are the True Black Metal" and "We Who Drinks the Blood of Your Bastardo Messiah."
Putrefacta is a goregrind project from Fortaleza, Ceará, formed in 2022 by José Neto, who handles vocals, guitars, and drum programming, with Fabrício Machado on bass. The project released the EP Repulsive Regurgitations in January 2024 and followed with The Decay of Forgotten Lives later that year, then the 14-track album Natimorto on January 16, 2025 through Disturbed Mind Records.
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