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Nekrommander is a one-person black/death metal project helmed by Ghul, whose 2023 EP "Vomiting in Heaven" was years in the making — drums tracked in 2019, the rest completed through 2023. The five-track release blends crunchy old-school death metal with thrash sharpness and hardcore-inflected groove, with session drums contributed by Douglas Batista.
Nocthun describes their music as "apocalyptic antifascist metal," channeling blackened death metal into explicitly political and confrontational themes. Their debut full-length "Rest in Flames" establishes the project with tracks like "In the Uncanny Valley of Death" and "Volcanic Hellfire," pairing blast-driven aggression with ideological conviction.
Noctívago is a solitary black metal project that drifts between crushing doom weight and spectral ambient drift, releasing a sequence of self-titled volumes — I through V — through the Terror Noturno label, each pressed in severely limited cassette runs. The music pulls influence from post-punk as much as orthodox black metal, weaving slow, suffocating riffs with passages that dissolve into murk and static.
Assembled during the pandemic in late 2021, O Espírito Profano wrote entirely in Portuguese and drew their themes from death, misanthropy, and spiritual suffering. Their short-lived run produced a self-titled release and a live EP recorded at the UFCAT university festival in Catalão, blending black, death, and doom metal into a dense and despairing sound before splitting up.
Formed in Belo Horizonte in 2012 by members steeped in Venom, Bathory, and Hellhammer, Ossuário play raw, uncompromising black/speed metal soaked in occult darkness and stripped-back aggression. Their debut EP Metal Antichrist (2016) established their reputation in the national underground, and the 2025 follow-up Metal Póstumo — released on cassette by Morbid Ways to Die and on CD by Cianeto Discos — continues that tradition with the current trio of Coveiro, Necrolsky, and Splatter.
Pabllo Vittar with Guns is a blasting extreme metal project that collides black metal, death metal, and grindcore into an unapologetically confrontational package, flying the flag for LGBTQIA+ representation in the heaviest corners of the underground. Their 2023 debut EP announced them with six tracks of ferocious, deliberately lo-fi noise and a title that leaves no ambiguity about who they're playing for.
A solo project built around bass-driven doom and black metal, Paranoid Existence orbits themes of Greek mythology and occultism through sparse, heavy arrangements. The project released a split with Parasito on Murdered Records (2018) before issuing the full-length Drakaina (2023) via Kvlt und Kaos, a six-track record centered on serpent mythology.
Founded in Divinópolis in 2008, Perlokus is a raw black/death metal duo — VoidNecroLust and HEL Antichrist Revenge — who cite Sarcófago's INRI as the defining template for their sound: primitive, blasphemic, and chaotic. After years of demos and a brief name change to Ritos Abominaveis, they returned as Perlokus and released two full-lengths, Ainda Morto e Decomposto (2016) and Hóstia Podre (2019) via Brazilian Ritual Records, both cementing their place in the South American underground extreme metal tradition.
Phantom Menace traffic in occult-drenched speed and black metal with a vampyric edge, releasing a rapid string of singles and EPs in 2023 including All the Witches Hail, Chained in Lust, and the Night Galleries collection. Their raw, first-wave-informed attack pulls from the same vein as early Bathory and Venom with a Brazilian underground sensibility.
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