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Rio de Janeiro, BR · active
Progressive metal band from Rio de Janeiro, founded in 1999 by Rodrigo and Tiago. The band released their debut album, Prologue to Infinity, in 2001 on the Rock Symphony label, with Renato Stefani on vocals and recorded at Guitar Paradise Studio in Rio de Janeiro.
Santiago, CL · active
Syntra Solista is a Chilean progressive metal and rock solo project from Santiago, created by multi-instrumentalist Cristóbal Jopia. The project released its debut full-length "Beginning" in 2019, followed by additional singles including "Hurricane" in 2021.
Fortaleza, BR · active
Blackened death metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, formed in 2016, with a lineup of Barroso Serra and Vinicius Dorneles on guitars, Felipe Ferreira on bass and vocals, and Jhoni Rodrigues on drums. The band released their debut full-length, Absurd, on January 25, 2023, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Barroso Serra at Maximum Violence Productions in Fortaleza; the album is structured around the Greek myth of Sisyphus, opening with 'Oneness And Dispersion (Preludium - Arising Of Sisyphus)' and closing with 'Fortress Of The Absurd (Postludium - Fall Of Sisyphus)'.
Altamira, BR · active
Death metal duo from Altamira, Pará, Brazil, formed in January 2013, with André Maia on bass and vocals and Luiz Quaresma on guitars, vocals, and drum programming. The band released three albums in quick succession — Grotesque Fascination for Dismemberment (2013), Acts of Sadistic Cruelty (2014), and Repulsive Orgy With Dismembered Whores (2015) — before going dormant, then returned with Paths of Inhumanity in 2023. Their lyrics center on sadism, dismemberment, and the extinction of the human race.
Santiago, CL · active
Sótano are a stoner metal band from Santiago, Chile. They released the full-length "El rey máquina" in 2017 and followed it with "El semimuerto" in 2023, building a catalog of heavy, riff-driven material across their career.
Fortaleza, BR · active
Sludge/doom/stoner metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, formed in 2018 and releasing the debut album Menos Que Nada in February 2024, recorded in Fortaleza and mixed by Rafaum Costa in Mossoró. The five-track record includes the songs Incel, Canivete, Delírio Tropical, Podolatria Militar, and Jesus Hitler.
Manizales, CO · active
Søvnløs is a black/doom metal band from Manizales, Colombia, whose lyrical themes draw on Norse mythology, suicide, and depression. Their debut release, the EP Where Lies the Sorrows, appeared in 2019 and blends black metal with atmospheric and suicidal elements.
Rio de Janeiro, BR · active
One-man black metal project from Rio de Janeiro, formed in March 2016 by Tormentum Funebri, previously a member of Desvanecer. The project released a first demo in April 2016, followed by the cassette Black Metal: Ódio & Supremacia in 2017 through Irmandade Hermética do Ódio, and the full-length As Cinco Pontas do Pentagrama de Sangue on April 3, 2021, self-released with a limited CD-R edition through Terrorismo 666 Productions.
São Paulo, BR · active
Heavy metal band from São Paulo, formed in 1990 by brothers Lennon Biscasse (bass) and Lely Biscasse (guitar), who built the group around a New Wave of British Heavy Metal foundation. The band released three studio albums: Battlefield (1998) on Laser Company Records with vocalist Mário Pastore, Behind the History (2001) on Megahard Records with Roddy B on vocals — which was licensed for distribution in Europe, the United States, and Japan — and The Gloomy Night (2013) independently with Daniel Rock on vocals; at various points the band opened for Savatage, Stratovarius, and Saxon.

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