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Barizon are a stoner/doom metal band from Rio de Janeiro who released their debut full-length "Towards the Rising Sun" in 2014 through Monstro Discos, recorded at Estúdio Superfuzz. Described as eight sludgy stoner doom rippers packed with hallucinogenic heaviness, the album drew comparisons to Down, Red Fang, and Mastodon, placing the band among Rio's more prominent underground stoner acts. The five-piece features Alexandre "Beef" Barbosa on vocals alongside Eduardo Sodré and Gabriel Zander on guitars.
Candy formed between Richmond, Virginia and Buffalo, New York in 2016, drawing members from bands including Malfunction and Backtrack. Their debut LP Good to Feel (2018) established their uncompromising blend of ferocious hardcore, noise rock, and extreme metal, and they have continued to refine that sound on Heaven Is Here (2022) and It's Inside You (2024). The band draws from Integrity, Japanese burning spirit hardcore, and multiple schools of extreme metal.
CAPRA formed in Lafayette, Louisiana in 2016, founded by guitarist Tyler Harper and drummer Jeremy Randazzo with the aim of recapturing the intensity of late-1990s and early-2000s hardcore. The band signed to Blacklight Media/Metal Blade Records and released their debut full-length In Transmission, featuring vocalist Crow Lotus's corrosive delivery over a dense metallic hardcore framework. They have since toured alongside acts including Eyehategod, Killswitch Engage, and KEN Mode.
Charles Soulz Project is a progressive rock/metal project from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, founded in 2020 by keyboardist and songwriter Charles Soulz. The project draws influence from artists such as Neal Morse, Pain of Salvation, Ayreon, Haken, and Steven Wilson, with lyrics exploring themes of human consciousness and social criticism. Releases include the concept album "Split Mind" (2021) and "Trilogy of Mankind" (2023).
Hammer of the Gods was a stoner rock and metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, active around 2012. The band self-released a self-titled EP in 2012 featuring material recorded in 2011, operating as an independent act before eventually splitting up. Their sound drew from the heavier end of the stoner rock spectrum within São Paulo's underground metal circuit.
Imagery is a progressive rock and metal band from Londrina, Brazil, formed around the core duo of vocalist/guitarist Joceir Bertoni and bassist Ricardo Fanucchi, both veterans of the Brazilian band G.A.F. and their later project Revoult. The band released their debut album "The Inner Journey" in 2012, a self-released eight-track record that balances heavy metal weight with progressive rock dynamics; in a notable early appearance they opened for Dutch legends Focus ahead of the album's release.
Founded in Geneva in 1996, Impure Wilhelmina have spent three decades blending post-hardcore, metal, new wave, and dark rock into a sound marked by constant reinvention without loss of identity. Albums such as Radiation (2017) on Season of Mist and the early touchstones L'amour, la mort, l'enfance perdue (2005) defined their capacity to absorb disparate influences into cohesive, emotionally charged material.
Kontrust is an Upper Austrian crossover band formed in 2001, known for fusing nu metal, electronic production, and folk elements — often performed in lederhosen as a deliberate, self-aware nod to traditional Austrian culture. Their early material leaned on dance-metal hybrids, while albums like Second Hand Wonderland (2012) and Explositive (2014, Napalm Records) refined their kinetic live show approach into polished studio recordings. Their 2023 comeback album Madworld debuted at number four on the Austrian album charts.
Mil Tormentas (Spanish for "A Thousand Storms") is a stoner rock and sludge metal band from Buenos Aires that formed in late 2013. They released their self-titled debut EP on November 1, 2014, recorded at La Nave de Oseberg, and put out their music through South American Sludge Records, the label founded by Sergio Chotsourian of Los Natas.
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