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Pantáculo Místico draws on the mournful, mid-paced doom of early My Dying Bride, weaving slow guitar dirges against delicate piano to create a sound steeped in occultism, hermeticism, and pagan mysticism — all delivered entirely in Portuguese. Their 1999 demo "Magnitude Oculta" established the template, revisited and expanded on the 2014 EP "Velado por Entidades" after a long dormancy.
Old-school death metal outfit drawing from the grime of Autopsy, the riff vocabulary of Death, and the brutality of Obituary, Papa Necrose deal in themes of religious hypocrisy, human contradiction, and corporeal decay. Their output includes the split Culto a Morte (2016), the album Open Infected Body (2021), and Anthropomorphy Execution (2026), released through Awakening Records.
Active since the early 2000s, Paradise in Flames meld symphonic black and death metal with Brazilian folk elements, framing their work around explicitly philosophical and anti-religious concepts they call "extreme philosophical symphonic protester metal." Their seventh album Blindness (2024) is a concept record exploring religion as psychological illness, featuring classical arrangements and the folk-inflected single "Black Wings."
Paradoxo carry on the northeast Brazilian tradition of raw, street-level crossover thrash, delivering hoarse vocals over fizzing drums and fast, dirt-coated guitar riffs that reach back to the sleazy underground of the 1980s. Their Sociedade EP (2018) established their sound with tracks like "Invasão" and "Massa de Manobra," packing nineteen minutes of manic thrash urgency.
Páramo Bonzai is a stoner/doom/fuzz rock quartet from Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, formed in November 2018. The lineup consists of Enzo Cabezón on vocals, Rodrigo Luna on guitar, Andrés "Primo" Osvaldo on bass, and Joaquin "Pogo" Páramos on drums. They have released three records: the debut full-length Canis Majoris (2019), the follow-up EP Kwanyip (2022), and El Rey Del Abismo (2024).
A solo project built around bass-driven doom and black metal, Paranoid Existence orbits themes of Greek mythology and occultism through sparse, heavy arrangements. The project released a split with Parasito on Murdered Records (2018) before issuing the full-length Drakaina (2023) via Kvlt und Kaos, a six-track record centered on serpent mythology.
Parasitic Carnivorous is a brutal death metal/slam band from Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela, formed in 2014. Their 2016 EP "Maracay Pampero" established their sound, rooted in the city that shares its name with the release, and the band has continued with an updated lineup since 2023.
Parkcrest were a thrash metal band from the Santiago area who formed in 2011 and split up in 2023, recording their material at Lion's Roar Studio in Peñaflor. They released two full-lengths: Hallucinative Minds in 2017 and ...And That Blue Will Turn to Red in 2019, both praised for capturing an authentic 1980s thrash aesthetic without simply recycling riffs.
A pandemic-born project rooted between Natal and Recife, Paroxysm channels existential dread and societal collapse through slow-grinding death-doom compositions built by guitarist and bassist Flávio "Horroroso" França alongside vocalist Rogério Mendes and drummer Flávio Neves. Their debut full-length Faith Swallower, recorded at Black Hole Studio in Natal between 2021 and 2023 and released in January 2024, delivers six tracks of dense, suffocating extremity that treat the project's very name — the peak exacerbation of symptoms — as both aesthetic and philosophy.
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