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Aspidis is a dissonant black/death metal band from Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, founded in 2012. Their 2017 EP Reborn From Darkness and their more recent album Intruding Voices (2025) reflect a dense, abrasive approach to the genre with roots in the dissonant death metal current popularized by acts like Ulcerate and Gorguts.
Atomic Spell is a black/thrash metal band from Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia, formed in 2022. The band released a demo, "The Persistent Onslaught of the Witch," in 2023 followed by the EP "Nuclear Speed Ritual" in 2024, playing under the Unsigned/independent banner with themes of death, blasphemy, and rock 'n' roll. The band suffered a loss when guitarist Ricardo Goenaga Ferro passed away in 2025.
Aurora Ortus is a black/doom metal duo from São Paulo, Brazil composed of Victor Alves (guitar, drums, bass, vocals) and Dhiego Joly Botogoske (vocals), whose name translates roughly as "dawn's ascension" — a metaphor for hope emerging from depression. Since forming in 2019, they have built a prolific discography including "Drought," "Sunless Life," "Ostara," and "Against Ourselves," exploring themes of depression, mortality, and nature through slow, suffocating riffs and bleak atmospheres.
Bastiel is a black/death metal trio from Ceará, founded by Thanatuz and Siffus as a garage project rooted in first-wave black metal before evolving into rawer, more extreme territory. Their EP Descendant of Moloch draws from Beherit, Archgoat, Blasphemy, and Brazilian touchstones Sarcófago and Mystifier, channeling occultism and existential esotericism through deliberately primitive, anti-melodic aggression.
Beelzeebubth is a black/death metal project from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, linked to the Brazilian Ritual Records underground network. The project blends war metal aggression with politically-charged lyrical themes — historical atrocities, indigenous spirituality, and environmental destruction rendered through a satanic lens. Their 2020 EP "Sæculum Obscurum (Regressing More Than A Generation)" featured guest vocalists from Acheron (Vincent Crowley), Masacre (Alex Okendo), and Inquisition (Dagon), with Beelzeebubth handling all songwriting and production.
Black/death metal band from Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil — not to be confused with the Polish act of the same name. The Barbacena Behemoth are part of a lineage of extreme metal from the city that stretches back to the early 1990s underground, and they operate in the raw, Satanic-themed tradition of South American black and death metal.
Brazilian black/death metal project formed in 2020, released via WarCore Records, featuring the duo of Tormentor on all instruments and Necromaniac on vocals. The band channels the raw, occult-drenched collision of black and death metal that defines much of the South American extreme underground, operating with a two-piece war-metal austerity.
Bestial Curse is a black/thrash metal band from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, drawing influence from Hellhammer, Venom, and Bathory. The band features members with ties to Brazilian acts Apokalyptic Raids and Flagelador, and released the album "Masters of Mayhem," recorded at Eclypse Studio in Niterói, on Dark Sun Records.
Bestial Nuclear Atrocity is a Brazilian black/death metal band formed in 2022. They released "Holocausto Podre e Profano da Desolação" in September 2022, a recording mastered by Filipe Silva that places the band within Brazil's underground bestial black/death metal tradition.
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