Funneral

Funneral are an old-school death metal band from Itu, a historic town in the interior of São Paulo state that sits roughly an hour northwest of the capital and has long supported a stubborn pocket of extreme-metal activity beneath the radar of the larger SP scene. Formed in 2007, the band has lived through the start-stop arc that defines so many underground projects on the periphery of major Brazilian cities: an initial run from 2007 to 2010, a brief reactivation in 2013, and a more committed return from 2018 onward, all documented on their Encyclopaedia Metallum entry. Their sound is squarely in the old-school death metal lineage that Brazilian listeners trace back to early Krisiun, Mental Horror, and the Cogumelo Records roster, with riffing that favors mid-paced churn and a production aesthetic that gestures back toward the cavernous late-80s/early-90s Floridian and Swedish templates rather than chasing modern slam or technicality. Lyrically the band foregrounds what their Metal Archives profile calls themes of mental tensions, an unusually introspective frame for the genre that aligns them more with the psychologically charged Brazilian death metal of bands like Headhunter D.C. than with strict gore or occult orthodoxy. Their material has been distributed primarily through Bandcamp and Facebook, where the band maintains direct contact with the Itu and broader São Paulo underground, playing the small clubs and DIY festivals that knit the interior scene together. Funneral remain unsigned and self-released, a posture that fits comfortably within the long Brazilian tradition of bands who treat extreme metal less as a career path than as an ongoing local ritual.