Forest of Man

Forest of Man is a one-person black metal project rooted in Pelotas, the southern Rio Grande do Sul city that lies in the pampas country near the Uruguayan border, and it operates explicitly within the antifascist or RABM (Red and Anarchist Black Metal) wing of the Brazilian underground. The project's most visible release to date is a 2023 split with Vetharn, issued on December 17 of that year, contributing the tracks "The Light Has Taken Them" and "We All Bleed Red," with the release explicitly framed in its liner text as a record born from love of the genre and frustration with the politics and gatekeeping of its scene. Musically, Forest of Man trades in an atmospheric and raw black metal palette consistent with the broader RABM aesthetic that has flourished across Brazil since 2018 as a counterweight to far-right currents elsewhere in the global black metal world. The project is documented through outlets such as the Antifascist Black Metal Network and the Semirutarum Urbium Cadavera blog, both of which catalog Brazilian antifascist underground black metal as a discrete, growing movement that includes other Lusophone acts like Vociferatus. The Pelotas location places Forest of Man in the same southern Brazilian extreme metal corridor that historically nurtured pioneering gaúcho death and thrash acts such as Necrose, but the project's political and aesthetic lineage clearly belongs to the contemporary leftist black metal underground rather than the early-1990s pampas scene. Specific identity of the musician behind the project is, in keeping with RABM tradition, deliberately not foregrounded in the available public material.