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Death metal band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, founded in December 1989. After releasing numerous demos throughout the 1990s and temporarily operating under the name Hellspawn for a 7" EP, the band returned as Sanctifier and released the full-length Daemoncraft in 2012, recorded at Studio R in Natal, followed by Lone Wolf Syndicate in 2018, with lyrics drawing on Lovecraftian themes and the Cthulhu mythos.
One-person black metal project from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2017 by Nyktophyllus, who handles all instruments and vocals. The project has released four albums: Eucharistica Maledictio (2017), Gloria Malefica (2020), The Soulstalker (2022, issued through Nekrolust Records), and The Dysangelion (2023), all rooted in a self-described Holocaust Satanic Black Metal aesthetic.
Heavy metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2013 and later split up. The band released the EP Autumn in September 2013 through their Bandcamp page, a four-track recording featuring the songs The Underdogs, Autumn, Images of Self Destruction, and Breaking Free.
Sanctus Mortum is a death metal band from Sibundoy, Putumayo, Colombia, formed in 2014 in the remote Andean-Amazon foothills. Drawing on the old-school traditions of black and death metal, they released the demo "Oscuridad Eterna" in 2015 and followed it with the live demo "Macabro" in 2021.
Stoner/doom metal band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2017. The band released the album Cartago in 2019, a slow, heavy psychedelic record in the tradition of Brazilian stoner and doom metal.
Sandiablo was a stoner metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, featuring guitarist Claudio Filadoro, vocalist Gabriel Raimondo, bassist Adrian Corrales, and drummer Martín Cipriano. The band recorded a single self-titled EP in 1998 across various studios before dissolving in 1999 when Filadoro joined Los Natas, the seminal Argentine stoner rock group.
Sangre Guerrera is a thrash metal band from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2016. They released their debut full-length "Mi sangre mi tierra" and the "Killing Bastards" demo the same year, then followed up with the full-length "Killing Bastards LP" in 2018, with lyrical themes centered on war and society.
Death metal and goregrind band from Viamão, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2013. The band self-released the EP Leucotomia in May 2013 and followed it with Colapso ~ Instinto in August 2015, a two-track release issued under a Creative Commons license.
Death metal band from Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 1998. The band released the full-length album Fleshback on June 1, 2012 through Terceiro Mundo Chaos Discos (TMCD006), recorded and mixed during the second half of 2011 at Soundstorm Studio in Bento Gonçalves; the nine-track album features song titles including 'Purulent Vaginal Discharge' and 'Coprophilic Tendencies'.
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