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Sludge/doom metal duo from Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2019 and consisting of guitarist/vocalist Vitor B. and drummer Douglas Sinsuk. The project released its debut album A Música de Erich Zann in May 2020 through the São Paulo label Orlög Black Art, a four-track work drawing its title and themes from H.P. Lovecraft's 1922 short story.
Death metal band from Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 1998. The band released the full-length album Fleshback on June 1, 2012 through Terceiro Mundo Chaos Discos (TMCD006), recorded and mixed during the second half of 2011 at Soundstorm Studio in Bento Gonçalves; the nine-track album features song titles including 'Purulent Vaginal Discharge' and 'Coprophilic Tendencies'.
Sludge/doom metal one-man project from Viamão, Rio Grande do Sul, operated by Baal Mephisto Pheles. The project released its debut full-length 'The Thousand Voices of Demon' in 2017, followed by 'Tenebris' in 2018, the EP 'Forged in Hell' in 2022, and 'Echoes from the Abyss' in 2024.
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.
Trewua is a sludge and groove metal band from Santiago, Chile, founded in 2019. They released their Demo I that same year, recorded at Estudio Ultrasonico with engineer Arturo Contreras.
One-man sludge/drone/funeral doom project from Brasília, with all instruments performed and recorded by Maurício Caio, who also operates the bands Absent, Burial Temple, and Kurgan. The project released the pandemic-era compilation Deep Ecology on July 25, 2022, followed by the four-track EP Paradise Long Gone in 2025; lyrical themes focus on geological and ecological catastrophe rather than human experience.
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