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Macabro is a speed metal/punk band from São Paulo, Brazil, featuring Ruan Pablo on vocals, Gui Disanti on guitar, Naum Prado on bass, and Uriel Franco on drums. The band channels working-class protest energy alongside themes of Satanism and anarchy, and released the album "Mensageiros do Caos" (Messengers of Chaos) in December 2023.
Methrasheros is a thrash/punk crossover band from Ramos Mejía in the Buenos Aires province, featuring vocalist Pablo Methrashero, guitarists Julio Pursan and Gabi Asko, bassist/vocalist Hernan Wattusi, and drummer Leandro Lapolla. Their eleven-track album Enemigos was released on October 6, 2018, with tracks addressing political and social themes.
Denver, Colorado outfit MF Ruckus began in 1997 as a three-chord punk band before evolving into a hard rock and heavy metal act with Thin Lizzy and Iron Maiden among their touchstones. Albums including The Dirty Half-Dozen (2013) and Thieves of Thunder (2016) earned the band a loyal regional following and European touring opportunities. Their fourth album The Front Lines of Good Times Vol. I was released in 2023 via Glory or Death Records after the band weathered extensive personal losses and industry setbacks during the pandemic era.
Orgullo Fisura is a heavy punk band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who fuse traditional heavy metal with punk aggression and socially charged lyrics rooted in underground resistance culture. They released "El infierno del heavy punk" in 2015 on Desatan Records, followed by "Derribando muros" on the same label in October 2018. The band has been a consistent presence in the Buenos Aires underground scene, with a catalog that also includes earlier releases such as "HeavyPunk de carretera" (2017).
Pedo — the word is Spanish for 'fart,' and the name is entirely intentional — is a death/thrash metal and punk band from Neuquén, the capital of the Neuquén province in Patagonia, a city that has produced a surprisingly robust metal scene given its distance from the cultural centers of Buenos Aires and Córdoba. Formed in 2014 according to their current incarnation (with earlier activity noted on Metal Archives going back as far as 2007), the band plants themselves in the scatological, horror-inflected corner of extreme metal where bands treat shock value and black humor as legitimate artistic tools — a tradition running from the early grindcore scene through Brazilian death metal and into the Argentine underground. Their lyrical themes of feces, horror, and humor are not merely juvenile provocation but part of a coherent aesthetic that strips away any pretension from the genre, delivering death/thrash with a punk band's lack of concern for dignity or commercial palatability. Neuquén's metal scene has historically been tied to the broader Patagonian metal ecosystem — a region that developed its own distinct identity within Argentine metal, partly through isolation and partly through the influence of indigenous Mapuche cultural elements that some local bands have incorporated, though Pedo operate at the rawer, less ceremonial end of the spectrum. Their current on-hold status suggests the project has stalled without formally disbanding — a common state for underground bands in Argentina's interior, where life logistics and the difficulty of maintaining momentum in geographically isolated scenes often pause rather than end musical projects.
Rawness is a black-n-roll and metalpunk band from Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina, drawing heavily on the raw sounds of Venom, Motörhead, Discharge, and Midnight. Their self-titled debut album, released on February 20, 2025, features seven tracks including "Warfare Noise," "Black Steel," and a cover of Inepsy's "Bombshell Rocks."
Speed metal and punk band from Guaianases, São Paulo, formed in 2017 by members performing as A. Sküllcrüshër (guitars), Satanik Ripper (drums and vocals), and Nekrömantical Cörpse (bass). The band released the demo Satanic Killers in 2018 and the EP Cidade Morta in 2019 on Läjä Records, followed by the split Salvete Infernum with Gravedäncer in 2021.
Satan's Satyrs is a doom and heavy metal band from Herndon, Virginia, founded in 2009 by multi-instrumentalist Clayton Burgess while still in high school, blending the downtuned psychedelic weight of Electric Wizard with the aggression of Black Flag. The band gained notable recognition when Electric Wizard championed them and invited Burgess to perform at the 2013 Roadburn Festival, eventually leading to Burgess joining Electric Wizard as bassist. After releasing three LPs—Wild Beyond Belief (2012), Die Screaming (2014), and Don't Deliver Us (2015)—the band disbanded in 2019 before Burgess revived the project with a new lineup in 2023.
Sin Pudor is a thrash metal and punk band from Bogotá, Colombia, active since 2005. They released the EP "Lasciva Intoxicación" in 2015 and have issued several singles and split releases, with lyrical themes centered on LGBTQ+ rights, gender expression, feminism, and anti-fascism. The band operates independently and has built a catalog of politically charged material through digital releases on their Bandcamp page.
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