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Melencolia I is a one-man project by guitarist and multi-instrumentalist João P. Amorim Xavier, weaving together atmospheric black metal, doom, shoegaze, and progressive metal into a dense philosophical framework that the artist describes as exploring the depths of human existence through poetic themes. The project released the EP "Introspective Violence" in early 2026, following the earlier full-length "Hermitage."
Monasterium was a death/doom/gothic metal band from Teresina active in the late 1990s, releasing the full-length "Innocent Rise" on Demise Records in 1999 and a demo titled "Inviolable" in 1998. Their sound blended the heavy melodic sensibility of gothic doom with death metal weight, placing them among the more ambitious extreme acts to emerge from the Piauí underground.
Mono Histeria is a Curitiba outfit blending progressive, doom, and stoner metal into a dense, riff-driven sound. The band released "Volume 1" in 2022 and has tracks such as "Instinto" and "Primata" available on streaming platforms, pointing toward a sound influenced by the heavier end of the psychedelic and doom rock spectrum.
Nigrae Lunam is a doom/death duo composed of vocalist Paulo Brasil and multi-instrumentalist Kastiphas, whose music explores occult feminine mythology — particularly the figure of Lilith — through slow, suffocating riffs and bleak atmospherics. Their 2020 debut album "Lilith Regnator Est" was recognized by metal press as one of the standout Brazilian extreme metal releases of that year.
Nîn Morn is a doom/death metal band from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, formed in 2011 and signed to No Wasted Records. The band progressed from early EPs — Funeral (2012) and The Black Box (2015) — to their debut full-length Victus Paradisum in 2021, building a sound anchored in themes of death, despair, misanthropy, and nature. Their 2019 EP Valle de la muerte and 2023 single Lament continue to refine their dense, grief-laden approach to the genre.
Obscurity Tears trace their roots back to 1994, when the band began under the name Smashed Face drawing deep from Paradise Lost, Cathedral, and My Dying Bride before refining the sound and adopting their current name. By 1999 they had expanded with the addition of vocalist Nitelma Lima and violinist Jefferson Barreto, whose contributions gave the band the dense, mournful atmosphere that defined their 2000 debut "Songs for a Black Winter"; Jefferson Barreto remains central to the project, resurfacing decades later on the 2023 record "Doom4Ever".
Founded by vocalist Tiago Monteiro and guitarist Mad Ferreira, Ode Insone blend gothic doom with melodic death metal and lyrical darkness sung entirely in Portuguese. In the span of three years they released three albums — Relógio (2018), A Origem da Agonia (2019), and Isolamento: Do Silêncio à Poesia (2020) — each weaving slow, heavy riffs into poetry-driven reflections on despair and existential isolation.
Páramo Bonzai is a stoner/doom/fuzz rock quartet from Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, formed in November 2018. The lineup consists of Enzo Cabezón on vocals, Rodrigo Luna on guitar, Andrés "Primo" Osvaldo on bass, and Joaquin "Pogo" Páramos on drums. They have released three records: the debut full-length Canis Majoris (2019), the follow-up EP Kwanyip (2022), and El Rey Del Abismo (2024).
Passional arrived from Belém's underground in 2023 with a short, prolific burst of doom-soaked death and thrash metal, releasing multiple records in rapid succession including I Cry... Tears of Blood and Sweet Revenge... To Kill You After My Death. Their material orbits crimes of passion, emotional devastation, and the violence that can emerge from betrayal, with extended compositions that sit at the bleaker, slower end of the death-doom spectrum.
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