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Exortta is a symphonic black/doom metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, playing in the Christian unblack metal tradition. The band released their debut album "Last Called" in 2015, later remastered and reissued in 2020 through Vision of God Records, and contributed the track "David's Lyre" to the Brazilian extreme metal compilation "Evig Mørke Collection Vol. I" in 2017.
Experiencia Tibetana is a psychedelic doom trio from the Buenos Aires area featuring Walter Fernandez on guitar and vocals, Leandro Moreno Vila on bass, and Gaston Saccoia on drums. The band released Vol I in 2020, recorded at Santuario Studio with guitars and bass tracked as early as 2014, and followed it with Vol II in April 2022, both albums built around lengthy, hypnotic compositions that move between drone, heavy stoner riffing, and ambient passages. A live recording, Aldea Sesión, was captured in Banfield in August 2022 and released the same year.
Explicit Hate is a thrash metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, rooted in the classic Brazilian thrash sound of the late 1980s. The project was revived with a new lineup and released the compilation "A View of Every Side" in 2012 through Marquee Records, gathering demos from 1986, 1987, and 1991 alongside their 1989 album and a 2009 promo tape.
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.
Exterminio is a death metal band from San Martín, Buenos Aires, with roots stretching back to 1989, making them one of Argentina's earliest death metal acts alongside Vibrion and Escabios. Founding vocalist Fernando Grippo has remained a constant presence across the band's history, which spans the early cassette era through full-lengths including Epitaph (1994), Homicide in First Degree (2007, via Hurling Metal Records), Inhuman Atrocities (2012, via Icarus Music), and Narcorporations (2017). The current lineup also features guitarists Carlos Varela and Alejandro Bustamante, bassist Richard Farias, and drummer Juan Calvete.
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