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Desollado is a stoner/sludge/doom metal band from Mexico City, Mexico, formed in 2017. The band released a self-titled EP in 2019 and their debut full-length, Morir por Nada, in 2024, recorded at Grábale Grábale studios in Mexico City. They are signed to Loud, Slow and Distorted Riffs.
Dirtweed is a sludge, stoner, and doom metal trio from Rosario, Argentina, consisting of Maximiliano Dana on guitar and vocals, Juan Ignacio Garcia on bass, and Guido Rumi on drums. The band released their debut single "El del Vómito" in July 2024 and followed it with a self-titled four-track album in February 2026, recorded at 312 Music Studio and mixed and mastered by Gonzalo Villagra at Estudios Audion.
EerieLowMoon is a sludge/doom trio from San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina, comprising Ivo Hayduk on guitars and vocals, Franco Fruci on bass and vocals, and Bruno Fruci on drums. Their debut album 'Low Moon' (December 2013) was produced by Sergio Chotsourian of Los Natas, and was followed by 'Midnight Despair' in January 2020.
Exsim were a grindcore/sludge/thrash metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, formed in 2020 and now split-up. Their self-titled debut album, released in May 2020, crams 18 tracks into roughly 16 minutes and was recorded, mixed, and mastered entirely in a home studio by Daniel Farias. Lyrically the record tackles alienation, fear of fascism, and the precariousness of Brazilian working life.
Goatmantra is a sludge and stoner metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, active since 2013. Their self-titled debut album, recorded at Fábrica de Sonhos studio in São Paulo and released in March 2013, features eight tracks of heavy, riff-driven stoner doom described as packed with sludgy guitar work and hallucinogenic atmosphere.
Hellige is a black/sludge/doom metal project from Morón, Buenos Aires, that began as raw black metal recordings before evolving into a heavier, more atmospheric sound. Their 2021 album "Camino de agua", released through Dying Sun Records and mixed and mastered by Facundo Brinville, is the product of material written and recorded between 2014 and 2021.
Inner-I is a sludge and post-metal band from Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil, drawing on the monolithic, atmospheric sound of acts like Cult of Luna and ISIS. The five-piece — featuring Gabriel Franco on vocals, Jean Botari and Danilo Monti on guitars, HB Neto on bass, and Lucas Assis on drums — recorded their debut self-titled EP in April 2021 at Estúdio SomBrio in Bauru, releasing the four-track effort in January 2022. The band subsequently rebranded as INИERI in 2024.
Jupiterian are a sludge/death/doom metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2013, known for crafting an oppressively heavy sound that fuses cavernous death doom with oozing, soul-crushing sludge. Their debut EP Archaic arrived in 2014, followed by the full-lengths Aphotic (2015) and Terraforming (2017), before they signed to Transcending Obscurity for Protosapien (2020), widely praised as their most focused and accomplished record.
Kaasibal was a stoner/sludge/doom metal band from Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, active from 2016 until their split-up in 2021. The band's name derives from the Mayan word for demon or spectre, and their catalog includes the full-length The Void Nightmare (2017).
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