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Black metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, formed in 2014, featuring vocalist Senapos, guitarist Diogo Rocha, bassist Alex Hiroshima, and drummer Ariel Osodrac. Their debut album No Infinito do Cosmos was released in 2018 through Disastrous Messiah Productions, a Mexican underground black metal label.
Somdark is a raw black metal band from Mérida, Venezuela, active since the late 1990s and a former member of the now-dissolved C.M.B. (Cantus Maleficorum Bestiae) Congregation, a collective of Venezuelan underground black metal acts. The band has released a large body of work including Guerreros del Foso, Vltracosmos (2022), Taknara (2022), and Kaos (2025), with themes of strength, nihilism, and heresy running throughout. Their recordings have appeared on Wolfmond Production.
Stoner/doom metal band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, founded in 2008 by guitarists Patrick Schafstein and Adriano, later joined by vocalist Nelson Macedo performing as King Lizzard. The band released the EP Snake Arms Woman in 2012, followed by the full-length Thrones in the Sky in 2016 on German label Kozmik Artifactz and Brazilian imprint Deathtime/Burning London. Their second album, Commanded by Cosmic Forces, was recorded at Black Hole Studio in Natal between December 2018 and April 2019 and pressed to vinyl by Kozmik Artifactz.
Melodic metalcore band from Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro state, formed in 2015 with a lineup of vocalist Sidney Junior, guitarist Vinicius Crivellaro, bassist Fernando Thomaz Neves, and drummer Gabriel Guimarães. Their debut release Skirmish, a nine-track album produced by Gus Monsanto, appeared on May 21, 2015, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Celo Oliveira.
Blackened hardcore punk project from Piracicaba, São Paulo state, operated as a solo act by the musician credited only as Sinluz. The debut release Ímpeto Hediondo, issued December 19, 2024 through the Egregora Adversarial collective, comprises eight tracks of raw, horror-themed extreme music drawing explicit inspiration from 1970s and 1980s Italian and American slasher films including New York Ripper, Torso, and Maniac.
Black/heavy metal band from Porto Velho, Rondônia, formed in 1998 with a lineup including vocalist Camarão, guitarist Sérgio Watanabe, keyboardist Esther, bassist Anderson Estopa, and drummer Alberto. The band performed at the Madeira Rock Festival in Porto Velho in 2005 and released two full-lengths: Sortilégio in 2005 and O Exilado in 2009.
Sotana is a grindcore/death metal trio from Mar del Plata, Argentina, formed as a family project by Flavio Cianciarulo (bass, known as the bassist of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs) alongside his sons Jay Cianciarulo (guitar and vocals) and Astor Cianciarulo (drums). The band recorded and released their debut album "Secta del Acantilado" through Icarus Music in 2018 in just two days, delivering twelve tracks of raw extreme metal inspired by the dramatic cliffsides near their home in Chapadmalal.
Black metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, operating in the unblack (Christian black metal) tradition and described as one of the most extreme anti-Satanic voices in the Brazilian underground. The band released the album Pure Holocaust of Armaggedom through Kongsblod Records, a six-track record with a bonus demo rehearsal track, and contributed material to the Underblood Fest Collection Vol. 1 compilation.
One-man depressive black metal project from Santa Catarina, Brazil, operating within the Brazilian DSBM underground. The project has released the albums Onde Está Minha Depressão and Quintessência, and contributed the track Decomposição to the DSBM Brazil compilation Depressivos Hinos Suicidas Vol. I – Todos Os Caminhos Te Levam a Morte, released in March 2023.
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