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Doom and stoner metal band from São Paulo, formed in 2014, consisting of Gabriel Martinez on vocals, Gustavo Bueno on guitar, Allan Lordaro on bass, and Alexandre Dantas on drums. The band debuted with the EP Rising Sun on November 10, 2014, containing four tracks: Purple Fog, Forsaken, Black Witch, and Fading Moon.
Doom/black metal band from João Pessoa, Paraíba, active from 2011 through approximately 2018, releasing two albums: A Sorrowfull Madness of Existence and From the Dark Ages to the Era of Nowhere. The band operated independently and centered their lyrical themes on philosophy, death, and suffering.
Doom/death metal band from São Paulo formed by Airton Alves, Jeferson Menezes, and guitarist Kleber Silva, who chose the band's name after their first performance at Zundap house. The lineup later expanded to include bassist Rodrigo Sughayyer and drummer Sergio Barsant, with the band citing Amorphis, Type O Negative, and My Dying Bride as primary influences and recording the EP Act I – Sorrow as their first official release.
Sublevels formed in 2012 in Córdoba, Argentina, with a lineup of Lino Reinoso on vocals, Gastón Praddaude on guitar, Fabián Pignataro on bass, and Andrés Gualco on drums. The band released their debut album Eo Abyssvs Occvltvs on January 3, 2012 via Ishtar Gate Records, recorded at 440 Studios in Córdoba, followed by a self-titled album in May 2017 and the instrumental release Death of the Sun (LMDS Instrumental) in 2020.
Sludge/doom/stoner metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, formed in 2018 and releasing the debut album Menos Que Nada in February 2024, recorded in Fortaleza and mixed by Rafaum Costa in Mossoró. The five-track record includes the songs Incel, Canivete, Delírio Tropical, Podolatria Militar, and Jesus Hitler.
Doom/black metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, formed in 2006, featuring members performing under the names Mictantecutli, Loki, Gylve, and Luciferiano. The band released the demo Ritos, Sacrifícios e Glória in 2008 and appeared on the 2014 four-way split Tenebras Nigrum Malefici Paganus alongside Nocturne Sortilege, Féretro Avernal, and Nomades, released by Cursecandle Records in a limited edition of 500 copies.
Doom/stoner metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, featuring guitarist Iossif (Wagner Lamounier, aka Wagner Antichrist), a founding member of both Sepultura and Sarcófago, alongside vocalist Miss Aileen (Germânia Gonçalves), bassist Anderson Vaca, and drummer Rodrigo Buzelin. The band released a self-titled debut album on June 9, 2017, followed by Seven Acts to Apocalypse in 2023, both on Osmose Productions.
Doom/post-black metal one-man project from São Paulo, created in 2020 by Bruno Cassoni, guitarist of Songs of Oblivion. The debut album Epiphany, comprising five original compositions, was recorded entirely by Cassoni at his Obscure Room home studio and released in 2020; he followed it with the atmospheric single "Eternal Winter" in June 2022.
Vastarien is the solo project of Maceió-based multi-instrumentalist Rodrigo Lacerda, who handles all instruments, vocals, and production himself. Formed in 2021, the project works a seam of death, doom, and black metal saturated with themes of pessimism, anti-natalism, and cosmic horror — documented across the debut album nothing HAS to be (March 2021) and the two-track EP Cadaveric Fauna / Derealization, self-recorded at Sempiternum Studios in Maceió and released in March 2023.
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