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Heavy metal band from Alagoas, Brazil, led by guitarist and vocalist Marcus Mausan, who also handles bass on most recordings. Their 2023 album Be Free, released across streaming platforms, collects seven tracks whose earliest compositions date to 1995, drawing from classic hard rock, punk, and traditional heavy metal.
Poison the Preacher is a thrash metal, crossover, and hardcore punk band from Bogotá, Colombia, formed in 2021. The band blends raw hardcore aggression with old-school thrash principles and released their debut full-length "Vs the World" in 2025 through Concreto Records. Their catalog also includes several singles and a split release from 2022–2023.
Technical death metal band from Manaus, Brazil, formed in 2014 by guitarist Anderson Souza and drummer César Correa. The band released Deformed Creation in September 2014 and the nine-track full-length Consumed by Pleasure (self-released) in December 2017, with the current lineup anchored by Souza alongside vocalist Will Guerreiro, bassist Arthur Vitoriano, and drummer Sidney Lima.
Stoner metal band founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2013 by guitarist and vocalist Christiano Vieira. After Vieira relocated to Portugal in 2022 and rebuilt the band there, The Red Crow released their debut album Spellbound in January 2025 on Sodeh Records, a ten-track record drawing on Black Sabbath and Red Fang.
The Revenge of Gaia is a progressive death metal band from Temuco, in the Araucanía region of Chile, formed in 2015. The band explores themes of revenge and misanthropy, releasing the EP Venganza de Gaia...El grito de la madre tierra in 2020.
Death metal band from Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2002. They released their debut album Chaotic independently in 2012, followed by The Growing Evil in 2017; the band later relocated to London before splitting up.
Death metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, active since 2021, signed to Eternal Hatred Records. The trio — Glycon Murmur (vocals), Dalvan Terlan (guitars), and Walber Galletto (bass) — released Still Remains Rotten in 2022 and followed it with Void Absolute in 2023.
The Scum are an old school death metal band from Manizales, Colombia, originally formed in 2013 under the name Scum before rebranding in 2017. They released their debut full-length Ashen in 2018 on In Fastu Negas, followed by the album The Hunger in 2022, both rooted in classic death metal themes of horror and mortality.
One-woman post-black/doom metal project from Brazil, active since 2025, operating under the Anhedonia Records label. The project released its debut full-length Trilha Para A Inexistência on September 27, 2025.
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