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Expulser is a death/thrash metal band from Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil, originally formed in 1989 and regarded as a cult act in the Brazilian underground extreme metal scene. Their debut album "The Unholy One" was released in 1992 on Cogumelo Records and has since been reissued multiple times; after disbanding in 2004, the band was reformed by original bassist Alessandro Lima in 2015 and has remained active since.
Expurgo is an old-school grindcore band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, active since the late 1990s and a fixture in the Brazilian underground extreme scene. The band released their debut full-length "Burial Ground" in 2013 and followed it with "Deformed by Law" in 2018, both on Black Hole Productions, and have participated in numerous split releases with international acts including Meatus and Shatter Dead.
Exscidium is a thrash metal band from Bahía Blanca, Argentina, with a lineup that includes vocalist and guitarist Carlos Orlando and guitarist Nicolas Amestoy. The band released the full-length América Rapiña in 2015 and the EP Genealogía Del Miedo in 2021, the latter featuring tracks such as "Aporías" and "Gusanos". They also appeared on the Thrash S.A. compilation series, which documented the Argentine thrash underground.
Exsecratio is a melodic black metal band from Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil. The band released their debut album "Veins of Perception" in December 2023, a seven-track record exploring themes of hooliganism, philosophy, and misanthropy.
Exsim were a grindcore/sludge/thrash metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, formed in 2020 and now split-up. Their self-titled debut album, released in May 2020, crams 18 tracks into roughly 16 minutes and was recorded, mixed, and mastered entirely in a home studio by Daniel Farias. Lyrically the record tackles alienation, fear of fascism, and the precariousness of Brazilian working life.
Extinction Remains are a death/doom metal band from Brasília, Distrito Federal, formed in 2013. Their discography spans four releases — Ecologic Noise (2013), Genetics of Defeat (2015), Human Disaster Never Ending (2017), and the 2019 compilation Smog, which was pressed to 500 copies by Polish labels Defense Records and Mythrone Promotion. Themes of ecological collapse, misanthropy, and industrial death run throughout their catalog.
Extipicium is a one-man black metal project from La Falda, in the Sierras de Córdoba, created and handled entirely by Bacilo the Koch, who plays guitars, bass, and handles all vocals and production. The project's debut album, Through Ancient Rites to the Finest Architecture of Extinction, was released in November 2020 and features guest vocal contributions from Javier Blasfemor across most of its ten tracks. A second album, III: PULVIS.CINIS.NIHIL, followed in January 2022, with all releases self-managed under a DIY ethos.
Extirpado is a black/death metal power duo from Mexico City, Mexico, formed in 2014 by guitarist/vocalist León Dávalos and drummer Eduardo Salazar. The band plays a brutal, fast-paced hybrid of black and death metal, and released their debut EP Bestia in 2018.
Extração Craniana are a goregrind band from Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, founded in 2010 by guitarist Matheus Mattos and bassist/vocalist Gabriel Zamian, with drummer Alyson Matheus completing the lineup in 2012. The band released their debut full-length Mutilação Extrema in November 2012, channeling surgical gore aesthetics as a vehicle for anti-religious and anti-moralistic themes. They have been on hold since around 2012 but maintain an active Bandcamp archive.
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