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Patricio Stiglich Project is a progressive metal and rock band from Bogotá, Colombia, active since 2010. The project has released five full-length albums, most recently "5" in 2024, alongside several EPs and singles exploring themes of life and humanity. Notably, they opened for Megadeth at the band's Bogotá show on September 2, 2012.
Solo project of Diogo W F Pereira that melds industrial heaviness with progressive structure and gothic undertones, drawing explicit influence from Rammstein, Megadeth, and Paradise Lost. The debut EP "Night Falls Heavy" (2022), recorded at Funds House studio, pairs themes of technological anxiety and late-capitalist alienation with dense, melodic riffing and harsh vocals.
A band that charted an restless course through the underground, starting from speed and thrash metal before shifting toward stoner rock and eventually hardcore. Their trajectory across multiple releases on Bandcamp reflects a willingness to abandon genre comfort zones, though the band ultimately dissolved before fully consolidating either direction.
Heavy rock band from Contagem, Minas Gerais, founded in January 2010 by guitarist/vocalist Luciano Roberto and lead guitarist Vinícius Araújo. Their debut album Rock In The Night (July 22, 2015) was recorded between October 2013 and July 2014 at To Mega Therion Studio in Contagem, with bassist Michael Euler and drummer Saulo Kico completing the lineup.
Sandiablo was a stoner metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, featuring guitarist Claudio Filadoro, vocalist Gabriel Raimondo, bassist Adrian Corrales, and drummer Martín Cipriano. The band recorded a single self-titled EP in 1998 across various studios before dissolving in 1999 when Filadoro joined Los Natas, the seminal Argentine stoner rock group.
Heavy metal band from São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, formed in 2021 with a lineup of Gusttavo Horvat (vocals), Bruno Kajpust (guitar), Leonardo Lanza Battistioli (guitar), Maria Lanza Battistioli (bass), and Pedro Marcolongo (drums). The band released their debut album Harpia's Blessing on March 5, 2026, an eight-track record drawing on doom and thrash metal aesthetics.
Sauron is a Buenos Aires stoner rock outfit founded by guitarist J.B. Larralde and vocalist Pato Larralde, regarded as one of Argentina's earliest stoner acts alongside Los Natas. They released six studio albums across nearly three decades, beginning with their self-titled debut in 1997 and continuing through El color que cayó del cielo (1999), Sobrenatural (2003), La guerra del fuego (2009), El último árbol sobre la tierra (2012), and Los Ojos Del Cuadro in 2018.
Sauron is a Buenos Aires stoner rock outfit founded by guitarist J.B. Larralde and vocalist Pato Larralde, regarded as one of Argentina's earliest stoner acts alongside Los Natas. They released six studio albums across nearly three decades, beginning with their self-titled debut in 1997 and continuing through El color que cayó del cielo (1999), Sobrenatural (2003), La guerra del fuego (2009), El último árbol sobre la tierra (2012), and Los Ojos Del Cuadro in 2018.
Progressive metal band from Rio de Janeiro, formed in 1995, recording in Portuguese. The band released two studio albums — Initium (1999) and Busca (2002) on Rock Symphony — before splitting up.
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