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Huma is an alternative post-metal band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, with a lineup that includes vocalists, dual guitars, bass, drums, and synth. Their 2025 debut album Afronta, recorded at EMUFRN and Black Hole Studio in Natal, blends doom and post-metal textures with Portuguese-language lyrics and features a Lana Del Rey cover alongside five originals.
Human Machine of Hate is a death/thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2018. Their debut release, The Negativity Core (December 2018), is a five-track record blending death and thrash metal with politically and socially critical Portuguese- and English-language lyrics.
Human Misery is a deathgrind band formed in 2021 in Piedecuesta, Colombia. The band released the demo Corrosión del orden in 2022 followed by the demo Torned Apart in 2023, and appeared on the split compilation Grindcore (Isn't) Mediocre in 2024.
Hylidae is a death and thrash metal band from Rio Branco, Acre — one of Brazil's most geographically remote metal acts — whose band name is drawn from an indigenous Amazonian ritual associated with hunting and survival. The band released their debut full-length Promiscuous World (2012), recording it in Curitiba due to the lack of suitable studios in Acre, and followed it with the second album Unbreakable Curse (2021), mixed and mastered in Fortaleza. Over their career they have shared stages with Sepultura, Nervochaos, and Demonical.
Ilizarov is a death/thrash metal band from Formosa, Goiás, Brazil, founded in mid-2014 by Danilo Rocha (guitar/vocals), Nel Dias (bass), and Veto (drums). Drawing on old-school death metal, punk, and rock and roll, the band has remained active in the Brazilian underground and released the album "Heal and Kill" in March 2025.
Incurse is a death/groove metal band from Varginha, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2017. The band blends death, groove, progressive, and heavy metal influences, releasing the single "Tormented Scars" in May 2019 as a preview of their debut album Constant Violence.
Infected Cells is a death/thrash metal band from Simões Filho, Bahia, Brazil. The band released their debut EP "Voices from the Hell" in 2018, recorded between 2015 and 2017 at WR Bahia Studios in Salvador, Bahia; the seven-track EP was later released on cassette in 2022. They followed it with the EP "This Is the End" (2020) and a live album documenting their appearance at Dopesmoke Festival in 2021.
Infected Mind was a death/thrash metal band from Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil, signed to the InfernalFox label. The band recorded their album "Rascals of Destruction" at Ponto Som Studio in Campina Grande, which includes a live bonus track — a cover of Black Sabbath's "Into the Void." Their lyrical themes centered on social issues and injustice.
Infortuno is a death/doom and hardcore band from Piracicaba, São Paulo, formed in 2022, featuring vocalist Bruno Lucas, guitarist Rodrigo Santos, bassist Bruno Reina, and drummer Bruno Lanza. The band released their debut EP, Decadent Vindication, in January 2023, a five-track record blending sludgy riffs and doomy breakdowns with NYHC-influenced drum grooves. They followed it in 2024 with Covenant of Dissent, a split release with Counterraid.
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