Neuro Attack plays straight-ahead thrash metal rooted in the classic Minas Gerais underground, formed in 2016 and quickly releasing their debut EP Thrash Returns before following it with a full-length in 2018. Their sound leans on tight riffing and no-frills aggression, staying close to the genre's '80s Bay Area and German roots.

Emerging from the wreckage of Corrosive Nausea, Neuro-Visceral Exhumation spent the early 2000s releasing some of the most unhinged goregrind to come out of Brazil, including Mass Murder Festival (2003) and The Human Society Wants More Gore (2004). The band periodically resurfaced over the years, most recently issuing Thou Shalt Be Slaughtered in 2021 and Gruesome Body Count in 2022 before going quiet again.

Neurotóxico brought a technically ambitious edge to the Brasília extreme metal scene, blending aggressive thrash foundations with death metal dissonance on their 2015 debut demo Web of Terror. The nine-track demo was produced by Zé Misanthrope at Less Than Zero Studio and featured a twin-guitar attack from Guilherme Lee and Pedro Azoth underpinning the caustic vocals of Gabriel Mosna.

NeverChrist is an anti-fascist black metal project helmed by Thiago Perdurabo, who has operated the band largely as a solo entity since 2021. The project's output includes Latin-American Elite of Anti-NSBM (2018) and the more recent full-length Thelema's Way (2025), which was composed and produced entirely by Perdurabo at his home studio in Magé. From 2010 to 2019, Thiago lead the band as solo musician. In 2019 Allan Kunha entered as the live drummer, and Thiago followed recording all the instruments until today. Now Thiago is composing new material to commemorate the 26th anniversary of the band.

Rooted in the melodic heavy metal tradition, this Minas Gerais outfit was built on the foundation of twin guitarists Bruno Amaral and Fábio Mol alongside vocalist Rodrigo Amaral, with clear debts owed to Angra, Helloween, Stratovarius, and Symphony X. Their early material, including the 2001 demo Fire & Water, leaned hard into European power metal, coupling technical guitar work and clean melodic vocals with precise, rhythmic riffing. Over time the band shifted toward a more straightforward heavy metal approach while maintaining the melodic sensibility that defined their early years.

Founded by multi-instrumentalist Higor Hoenig, Neverwinter pairs his layered orchestral production with the expressive soprano vocals of Fernanda Zys, whose lyrics draw from 19th century literature and explore themes of fear and pain. Their 2019 debut Air Castle blends symphonic and power metal grandeur with gothic undertones drawn from bands like The Cure and HIM, resulting in a sound that sits at an unusual crossroads between darkness and melodic accessibility. The band produces everything independently out of their home studio in Paraná.

Operating under the name Horda Nevoa on streaming platforms, this Rio Grande do Sul black metal act delivers a raw, war-obsessed assault drawing on themes of slaughter, satanism, and death that are squarely in the Brazilian black metal tradition. Their 2017 full-length Black Southern Winds is a 13-track statement of intent, and the band followed it with Obscura Essência in 2021, showing consistent output since their 2015 debut Satanic Bloody Wars.

Newsonic channel the progressive grandeur of Dream Theater and Symphony X through a distinctly Brazilian lens, crafting dense, emotionally driven metal that occasionally drifts into symphonic territory. Their 2019 debut Vorax is an 11-track album tackling subjects ranging from social media dependency and mental health to mythology and natural disasters, anchored by powerful melodic vocals and a tightly constructed band sound. The group has been active since 2011 and built their reputation as one of Rio's stronger underground progressive metal outfits.

Self-described as practitioners of Nietzschean black metal, this São Paulo act built their lyrical and conceptual framework entirely around the philosopher's thought, with track titles on their 2023 album Twilight of the Idols — including "A man. A Rope. A Dance Over the Abyss." and "In the Mountains of the Mind" — reading like meditations on will, existence, and the abyss. The music matches the philosophy with cold, aggressive black metal that treats nihilism and self-overcoming as its primary emotional register.