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One-person black/doom/death metal project from Londrina, Paraná, formed in 2019 with lyrical themes of pessimism, suffering, and mental illness. The project released its debut album Pessimismo on May 7, 2019, and has since split up.
Doom/stoner metal trio from Jundiaí, São Paulo, formed in the second half of 2016 by Rev. Bodefuzz (André Luiz Martins, voice/guitar) and Old One (Paulo Fornazza, drums), later joined by Baron Graves (bass). They released the debut EP Crown of Darkness in early 2018 and the EP Cursed in 2019 through Abraxas Records, followed by the second full-length O Caminho do Aço — recorded at Estúdio Eguchi and released February 27, 2023 through Cospe Fogo Gravações — which is sung entirely in Portuguese.
One-man doom/death metal project created by Bruno Zr in Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2019. The debut album Isolation was released in December 2020 and contains five tracks, including 'The Ward Pt.1,' which addresses the psychiatric hospital atrocities committed in Barbacena from the 1960s through the 1980s — an event documented in Daniela Arbex's book and sometimes called the 'Brazilian Holocaust,' in which more than 60,000 people died.
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