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One-person black/doom/death metal project from Londrina, Paraná, formed in 2019 with lyrical themes of pessimism, suffering, and mental illness. The project released its debut album Pessimismo on May 7, 2019, and has since split up.
Remains of Elysian is a melodic power metal project from Buenos Aires, Argentina, formed by Sebastian Garcia (vocals, drums, keys), Juan Manuel Agostino (lead and acoustic guitars), Germán Vazquez (guitars), and Damián Battistini (bass). Their debut album "Tales from the Earth" was published in September 2021, recorded entirely at home during the 2020–2021 pandemic after Garcia and Agostino began composing the material in mid-2020.
Progressive death metal solo project from São Paulo, Brazil, conceived and performed entirely by Jorge Silva. Silva released the six-track full-length Pilgrimage on December 24, 2021, and followed it with the 2024 release Forlorn, which includes a cover of Carcass's "Carnal Forge" alongside original material.
Reminiscencia is a technical thrash and progressive metal band originally from Trelew, Patagonia, Argentina, formed in 2018, with a lineup of Franco Malvica (vocals, guitar), Roberto Ynalaf (guitar), Richard Rodriguez (bass), and Joel Romero (drums). They released the demo "Deshidratación" in 2018 and followed it with the six-track EP "Ilusión Tetradimensional" in 2022, which draws on themes of physics and cosmology and is classified as technical death/thrash metal.
Post-black metal band from Brasília, formed in 2016 by Pedro Fraga and Rafael Viana, with lyrical themes centered on nature, nihilism, and existentialism. The band released their first demo, Impiedosa Natureza Transcendental, in 2017, and in December 2020 debuted the music video for "Túmulo (pt. I)" from an in-progress full-length.
Black metal band from Campinas/Valinhos, São Paulo, founded in 2005 and taking their name from a Baudelaire poem in Les Fleurs du Mal. Their lineup on the 2014 album Posthumum Haeresis Ecclesiastica included vocalist Tristenius Von Doom, guitarists Lutus and Cultus Nihil, bassist Mephisto, and drummer Impetus — the band's third full-length following Post Mortem Martyrivm (2007) and Les Poètes Maudits (Litanies I) (2010).
Renacer is a melodic heavy metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, founded by vocalist Christian Bertoncelli — previously of Horcas and Imperio — who has led the band since their debut mini-CD "Hoy como ayer" in 2001. Their discography spans over a decade of studio work including "Senderos del Alma" (2004), "Hijo del Viento" (2009), and "Espíritu Inmortal" (2013), released through Icarus Music, and they documented their live show with the DVD "Bienvenidos al show," filmed at Teatro Flores, Buenos Aires, in 2011.
Stoner doom and drone band from Belém, Pará, Brazil, active since 2018. They self-released Demo Sessions in March 2018 and followed it with Demo Sessions Vol II in March 2019, both featuring extended tracks in the five-to-seven-minute range rooted in heavy, psychedelic riffing.
Repugnatory is a black/thrash metal band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2016 and signed to Nocturnal Records. The band has been prolific in the underground, releasing three full-length albums between 2019 and 2020 — "Destruyo tu cruz," "Artillería anticristiana," and "Oscuro ritual de serpientes" — followed by "Eterna abominación" in 2022 and "Satán gobierna en su trono" in 2025. Their output is almost entirely in Spanish and draws on the black/thrash traditions of the Chilean underground.
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