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Progressive metal band from São Paulo, formed in 2016, featuring Marcelo Saracino on vocals, Renato Estevam and Gustavo Maia on guitars, André Fernandes on bass, and Mário Maia on drums. Their debut full-length The Sound of Hope was released on December 4, 2021, recorded from February to July 2021 at Acustica Studios in São Paulo and produced by Tito Falaschi.
One-man sludge/drone/funeral doom project from Brasília, with all instruments performed and recorded by Maurício Caio, who also operates the bands Absent, Burial Temple, and Kurgan. The project released the pandemic-era compilation Deep Ecology on July 25, 2022, followed by the four-track EP Paradise Long Gone in 2025; lyrical themes focus on geological and ecological catastrophe rather than human experience.
UnFear is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from La Plata, Argentina, whose lineup has included vocalists Sol Spaika and Julia Sergent alongside guitarists Juan Bach and Valentín Alegre. The band released the album "Crossing Lines" in 2016, blending melodic death metal riffing with metalcore structures, and later continued under the name Acroma, releasing further material including the album "Unum" in 2019.
Death/black metal band from Salvador, Bahia, formed in 2001, active through 2008 on Dynamo Records. Their 2005 self-titled album features ten tracks including "Murderers in the Name of God," "Laid in Ashes," and "Pestilence of the Limbo," with vocalist Arnaldo Asmodeus, drummer Thiago Nogueira, bassist Joel Moncorvo, and guitarists Tony Assis and Daniel.
Thrash/groove/death metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, formed in 2016 by members including Moab Junior and Davi Aguiar, recording at J.A. Studio with producer Joel Lima. The band released a self-titled four-track EP on September 1, 2018, followed by the single and music video "The Foundation of Society" in January 2025, directed by Henrique Costa.
Thrash metal band from Rio de Janeiro formed in 1993 by members of the dissolved group Milícia Armada, with a lineup of Reinaldo Leal (vocals/guitar), Luiz Gustavo Cruz (guitar), Elcio Pineschi (drums), and Denner Campolina (bass). After a thirteen-year hiatus, they resumed activity and appeared on the underground compilation Garage Voices alongside Freaks?, Scars Souls, and Go Ahead!, all connected to Rio's Garage Art Cult venue.
Unprocreation is a blackened death metal band from Cali, Colombia, formed in 2020. Their debut release, the EP "Eonic Metanoia" (2020), delivers five tracks blending black, death, and doom metal influences. The band channels a raw, extreme sound rooted in the underground metal scene of Colombia's Valle del Cauca region.
Brutal death metal band from Campinas, São Paulo, formed in 2017, with a lineup of Vrvs Arcannvs Necrovisceral (vocals), gRotxxko (guitars), Desastre Nuclear (bass), and Alcoholic Death (drums). Their only release is a self-titled four-track demo recorded on March 9, 2017, at Studioattack BH, featuring the tracks "Sodomize the Nuns," "Satan's Blood," "Degolated Priests," and "Puking on the Sacramental Bread."
Death metal band from São Paulo formed in 2012, performing in the old-school style with lyrics written and sung in Portuguese. Their album Realidade Sádica—reviewed by Roadie Crew in January 2019—opens with the title track and addresses themes of death, anti-religion, and human suffering across compositions that alternate between high-speed passages and mid-paced heaviness.
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