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Salvador, BR · active
Death/black metal band from Salvador, Bahia, formed in 2001, active through 2008 on Dynamo Records. Their 2005 self-titled album features ten tracks including "Murderers in the Name of God," "Laid in Ashes," and "Pestilence of the Limbo," with vocalist Arnaldo Asmodeus, drummer Thiago Nogueira, bassist Joel Moncorvo, and guitarists Tony Assis and Daniel.
Recife, BR · active
Thrash/groove/death metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, formed in 2016 by members including Moab Junior and Davi Aguiar, recording at J.A. Studio with producer Joel Lima. The band released a self-titled four-track EP on September 1, 2018, followed by the single and music video "The Foundation of Society" in January 2025, directed by Henrique Costa.
Rio de Janeiro, BR · active
Thrash metal band from Rio de Janeiro formed in 1993 by members of the dissolved group Milícia Armada, with a lineup of Reinaldo Leal (vocals/guitar), Luiz Gustavo Cruz (guitar), Elcio Pineschi (drums), and Denner Campolina (bass). After a thirteen-year hiatus, they resumed activity and appeared on the underground compilation Garage Voices alongside Freaks?, Scars Souls, and Go Ahead!, all connected to Rio's Garage Art Cult venue.
Cali, CO · active
Unprocreation is a blackened death metal band from Cali, Colombia, formed in 2020. Their debut release, the EP "Eonic Metanoia" (2020), delivers five tracks blending black, death, and doom metal influences. The band channels a raw, extreme sound rooted in the underground metal scene of Colombia's Valle del Cauca region.
Campinas, BR · active
Brutal death metal band from Campinas, São Paulo, formed in 2017, with a lineup of Vrvs Arcannvs Necrovisceral (vocals), gRotxxko (guitars), Desastre Nuclear (bass), and Alcoholic Death (drums). Their only release is a self-titled four-track demo recorded on March 9, 2017, at Studioattack BH, featuring the tracks "Sodomize the Nuns," "Satan's Blood," "Degolated Priests," and "Puking on the Sacramental Bread."
São Paulo, BR · active
Death metal band from São Paulo formed in 2012, performing in the old-school style with lyrics written and sung in Portuguese. Their album Realidade Sádica—reviewed by Roadie Crew in January 2019—opens with the title track and addresses themes of death, anti-religion, and human suffering across compositions that alternate between high-speed passages and mid-paced heaviness.
BR · 2022–present · active
Urach is a Brazilian black/death metal act that emerged in 2022, releasing their debut "Obsessive Trypophobic Exhibisionism" that same year. They followed it with "Lust's Dark Feast" in 2024, continuing a raw and dissonant approach to extreme metal rooted in the South American underground tradition.
San Miguel, AR · 2022–? · disbanded
Uranio 238 was a heavy and power metal band from San Miguel, Buenos Aires, Argentina, formed in 1987 and active through 1997 before splitting up. The band released a series of cassette demos during their run, including "Power Metal" (1991) and "Decadas pre-producción" (1992), operating entirely as an independent act within the Argentine underground metal scene.
BR · active
Urantia is a post-black metal and blackgaze band from Bogotá, Colombia, formed in 2019. They released the EP "Samsāra" in 2019 — recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered entirely by the band that autumn — followed by the full-length "Vermis" in 2020. Their sound blends atmospheric black metal with shoegaze and post-metal textures.

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