Meltin'Sun

Meltin'Sun is a São Paulo heavy/stoner band working a fuzz-soaked, riff-forward seam of Brazilian metal that has steadily grown over the past fifteen years into one of the country's most distinctive regional sounds. While the international image of Brazilian metal is dominated by extreme acts (Sepultura's thrash-tribal hybrid, Krisiun's blasting death metal, the Belo Horizonte first-wave black scene), São Paulo has quietly cultivated a parallel ecosystem of doom, stoner, and heavy psych bands operating out of the same gig circuit that supports the city's hardcore and crossover scenes. Acts like Dorgas and the broader cluster around the Abraxas Discos roster have laid the groundwork, drawing on Sabbath, Kyuss, Sleep, and the Brazilian acid-blues lineage of bands like Made in Brazil to produce records that swing rather than blast. Meltin'Sun fits squarely inside that lineage. The 2025 record Bad Booze Trip and its lead single One More Shot lean into the booze-and-haze imagery that has been a stoner-rock staple since the desert-rock 1990s, and the band's working idiom favors thick, mid-paced grooves, blues-rooted lead playing, and vocals that sit in the conversational register typical of the genre rather than the operatic delivery of traditional heavy metal. Where some São Paulo stoner acts have drifted toward doom heaviness or psychedelic sprawl, Meltin'Sun reads as more of a meat-and-potatoes heavy/stoner band, the kind of unit built for late-night sets at venues like Hangar 110 or the small bar stages that line the city's east zone. They represent a São Paulo heavy-metal undercurrent that rarely makes international press but keeps the city's weekly gig calendar populated and loud.