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Rústica is a Buenos Aires heavy metal band that self-released a trilogy of EPs beginning with EP #1/3 in August 2016, recorded live at the Bola De Fuego studio by engineer Fernando Elias. The three-part series, continuing through EP #2/3 and EP #3/3, documents the band's early output as a self-contained creative statement.
Sludge/doom metal duo from Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2019 and consisting of guitarist/vocalist Vitor B. and drummer Douglas Sinsuk. The project released its debut album A Música de Erich Zann in May 2020 through the São Paulo label Orlög Black Art, a four-track work drawing its title and themes from H.P. Lovecraft's 1922 short story.
Stoner/doom metal band from Brusque, Santa Catarina, Brazil, featuring vocalist Hugo Grubert, guitarist Vitor 'Bob' Zen, bassist Paulo Machado, and drummer Gustavo Gamba. The band released a self-titled three-track EP in March 2016 with all lyrics in Portuguese, and returned in 2023 with the single 'Winged Death (Satan's Servants),' recorded at Tobias Blues Studio in Brusque.
Melodic heavy metal band from Santos, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2004, with a lineup including vocalist and guitarist Wanderson Barreto, guitarist Vinni Savastanno, bassist Ricardo Reis, and drummer Pedro Colangelo. The band's discography spans four studio albums: Realities... Life As It Is (2010), Imminent (2012), Revolution (2015), and A Blessing in Disguise (2021).
Ryvelion are a Thrash Metal band from Pitalito, Huila, Colombia, formed in 2014. They released the EP "Desgracia y destrucción" in 2021 and their debut full-length "Rebelión de los condenados" in 2023, recorded and mixed at Pagan Studio in Pitalito, with lyrical themes encompassing war, social issues, and metal itself.
Thrash/death metal band founded in 2016 in Fortaleza, Ceará, who released their debut EP Dias de Fúria in August 2018. The record was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Esconderijo studio in Fortaleza by producer Leandro Osterne, with tracks including 'Sangue Inocente' and 'Nem que o Teto Caia'.
Saagar was a black metal and ambient project from Concepción del Uruguay, Argentina, active from around 2011 until splitting up in 2016. The band released the demo Interitum Universalis in March 2013 through Depressive Illusions Records as a limited CD-R edition of 33 copies, and contributed the track "Woodwoman" to the Odens Ride Over Southernland — An Argentinean Tribute to Bathory compilation released by Misanthropic Spirit Records the same year.
Christian progressive death metal band from Ouro Branco, Minas Gerais, Brazil, active since 2001 with a hiatus between 2009 and 2014. The band's releases include a 2005 split with Demoniciduth, the full-lengths From Dust to Dust (2007) and From Abandonment to Salvation (2014), and the anniversary compilation Sabbatariam 20 Years in May 2021, which featured vocalists Walter 'Big Head' Jr. and Daniel 'Corpse' Rezende alongside guitarist and producer Marcão Werneck.
Black metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 1994. The band recorded and released the EP Magnificent Forest of the Rising Sun in 1995 via independent channels; it was reissued in 2021 as Magnificent Forest of the Luciferian Rites MMXXI through Nekrolust Records, a Rio de Janeiro-based extreme underground metal label. The reissue contains five tracks including 'The Ways of Infernal Kingdom,' 'Ad Perpetuitatem Occultum,' and 'The Slaves Shall Serve.'
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