One of the longer-running voices in the São Paulo hardcore and metalcore scene, Paura emerged in 1995 from members of No-Violence and Garage Fuzz, fusing the DIY ethics of hardcore with heavy metal weight and politically charged lyrics around vegan straight edge and anti-homophobia themes. Their output spans from the 2014 album "Tameless" through to "Karmic Punishment" (2023), maintaining a raw urgency across nearly three decades of activity.

Formed in Londrina around 2019–2020, Payout play speed metal with a raw punk-metal crossover energy drawing heavily from Motörhead, Venom, and Tank. Their 2020 debut demo "First Demonstration" introduced the trio's dystopian lyrical bent and a stripped-back, loud-and-fast approach that keeps the spirit of the original speed metal wave intact.

Pedo — the word is Spanish for 'fart,' and the name is entirely intentional — is a death/thrash metal and punk band from Neuquén, the capital of the Neuquén province in Patagonia, a city that has produced a surprisingly robust metal scene given its distance from the cultural centers of Buenos Aires and Córdoba. Formed in 2014 according to their current incarnation (with earlier activity noted on Metal Archives going back as far as 2007), the band plants themselves in the scatological, horror-inflected corner of extreme metal where bands treat shock value and black humor as legitimate artistic tools — a tradition running from the early grindcore scene through Brazilian death metal and into the Argentine underground. Their lyrical themes of feces, horror, and humor are not merely juvenile provocation but part of a coherent aesthetic that strips away any pretension from the genre, delivering death/thrash with a punk band's lack of concern for dignity or commercial palatability. Neuquén's metal scene has historically been tied to the broader Patagonian metal ecosystem — a region that developed its own distinct identity within Argentine metal, partly through isolation and partly through the influence of indigenous Mapuche cultural elements that some local bands have incorporated, though Pedo operate at the rawer, less ceremonial end of the spectrum. Their current on-hold status suggests the project has stalled without formally disbanding — a common state for underground bands in Argentina's interior, where life logistics and the difficulty of maintaining momentum in geographically isolated scenes often pause rather than end musical projects.

Pedofagia are a brutal death metal band from Rancagua, Chile, formed in 2009. Their 2015 full-length Torturando la Infancia, released through Rotten Cemetery Records, delivers ten tracks of old-school brutal death metal drawing comparisons to Suffocation, Deeds of Flesh, and Cannibal Corpse.

Pedrapreta launched out of Brasília in 2016 with a self-titled EP featuring five tracks of slow-burning stoner metal, recorded at 1234 Recording Studio. The band — Mickael on vocals, Bruno on guitar, Gabriel on bass, and João on drums — leans into thick riffing and hypnotic grooves rooted firmly in the Black Sabbath and desert rock traditions.

Hailing from Macapá in the far north of the country, Peia Braba bring a chaotic and unpolished grindcore attack to a genre with deep roots in Brazil's underground. The band drew international underground attention with a 2015 split alongside Belgian grindcore legends Agathocles, recorded at Khaos Studio in their home city.

Pentachrome is a progressive metal band from Medellín, Colombia, formed in 2019. The band draws on themes of philosophy, history, and literature, and has released two EPs: "Tautology" (2020) and "Mentir" (2024). They operate as an independent act and are listed on Metal Archives as active.

One of the foundational acts in Brazilian doom/death metal, Pentacrostic formed in Osasco in 1989 and helped establish the sound on their debut "The Pain Tears" (1992), which incorporated material stretching back to their 1990 demo "Agony of Souls." Their follow-up "De Profundis" (1996) on Cogumelo Records is considered a rare and overlooked gem of the genre, and the band has remained active for decades as pioneers of the form in South America.

An underground black metal project from Belford Roxo in Rio de Janeiro state, Pentagramaton center their work on occultist themes and a raw, uncompromising aesthetic. The band introduced themselves with a self-titled demo that established their stripped-down approach to the genre.