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Thy Antichrist formed in Medellín, Colombia in 1998 under vocalist Andres Vargas, and has since relocated to Dallas, Texas while maintaining ties to the Latin American black metal scene. The band is regarded as one of the most significant black metal acts to emerge from South America, building a catalog over more than two decades that includes Wicked Testimonies (2004) and Wrath of the Beast (2018). Their music operates within orthodox black metal conventions while drawing on the intensity and rawness of the South American extreme metal tradition.
Death/black metal band from Rio de Janeiro summoned in 2005, operating under a framework of Satanism, blasphemy, and war, with multi-instrumentalist Nekrotizer as the central figure. Their debut full-length Thy Infernal Coronation was released in 2008 — recorded, mixed, and mastered at Fast Forward Studio in Rio de Janeiro — and the band has remained prolific, issuing records including Daemoniacal Terror (2019), Nekrolatreia (2021), Satankorps (2022), Trivmfyre (2023), and Arsenal Infernal (2024).
Thy Unmasked are a melodic death metal band from Bogotá, Colombia, founded by vocalist John Pérez, a former member of Under Threat, in 2010. They released their debut EP The Beginning in 2013 on Darksoul Records, followed by their first full-length Echoes Murdered in Time in 2017, and have appeared on Colombian metal compilations published by Extreme Magazine.
Melodic death metal band from João Pessoa, Paraíba, formed in 2006, with a lineup of Victor Hugo Targino (bass, vocals), Eduardo Borsero and Danilo Rufino (guitars), and Demetrius Pedrosa (drums). Their sole release, the self-titled debut album Thyresis, came out on September 15, 2011 — produced by Targino and mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden — before the band eventually split up.
Underground black metal project from Brazil, formed in 2012, deliberately maintaining a low online profile and operating as a self-financed, independent act. Their debut release Descendente Arcanjo Gabriel (March 1, 2012) is a six-track EP combining raw black metal, thrash-inflected riffs, and a punk attitude, distributed through Death to Music Productions as a name-your-price download.
Heavy metal project founded in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul in 2020 by Tiago Assis, who handles vocals, bass, and guitar alongside drummer Bruno Giordano and guitarist Renato Osorio. The 2021 single Ere the Sun Rises — recorded at Dry House Studio in Porto Alegre — features guest appearances from Brittney Slayes of Canadian power metal band Unleash the Archers and vocalist Iuri Sanson.
Tiburón Peregrino is an instrumental extreme metal project from San Miguel, Buenos Aires, founded in 2017 by multi-instrumentalist Rodrigo "Calo" Calónico. The project is named after the basking shark and channels its oceanic theme across a prolific catalog, including "La fosa de las Marianas" (October 2017), "MEG" (July 2018), and "Forever gran tiburón" (March 2019). Calónico handles guitars and drum programming, having released over fifteen studio albums as of the band's documented output.
Tierra de Elefantes is a progressive stoner metal duo from Haedo, Argentina, built around brothers Luciano Rey on vocals, guitar, and bass, and Nicolás Rey on vocals and drums. The band released their debut full-length "A Través del Sol y la Sombra" in 2015, establishing a heavy, psych-inflected sound within the active Argentine underground stoner scene.
One-person atmospheric black metal and crust project from São Paulo, founded in April 2017, whose lyrics are explicitly anarchist, anti-fascist, anti-racist, and pro-LGBTQ. The debut album Desesperança Crônica was released on May 13, 2017 as a free download; subsequent releases include the 2021 album Mito, você é o próximo..., with the project's sound evolving from raw crust punk toward atmospheric black metal over time.
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