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Thrash/death metal band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, active since 2008. The band, built around vocalist and guitarist Fabbio Webber alongside drummer Everson Krentz and bassist Gustavo Stuepp, released their third album Beyond the Violence in 2012 on Voice Music. The record marked a more mature phase for the band, which had roots going back to an earlier incarnation called Morbid active in the early 1990s.
Thrash/heavy metal band from Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in July 2014 by members from several local acts including Spharion and Eternal Cry; the name is the bassist Protásio Vargas's surname spelled backwards. The band released the EPs The Lynching (2015), themed around the 1950 burning of Chapecó's central church and mob killing, and Masked People (2017), before recording their debut full-length Kingdom of Chaos in January 2019 with vocalist Luciano Bravo, guitarist Guilherme Luan, and drummer Roberto Rodrigues.
Thrash/death/grindcore band from São Paulo, active from the early 2000s until splitting up. The band released the 14-track full-length Traitors Execution in December 2002 on Hate Storm Records.
Thrash/grindcore band from São Paulo, formed in 1989 and named after two sisters from the neighbourhood where the founding members lived. After disbanding in 2002, they reunited in 2015 and signed to Cogumelo Records, releasing Back From Hell (2023) — their first studio album in 24 years, featuring guest appearances from Mayara Puertas of Torture Squad and Henrique Fogaça of Oitão — followed by the live album Massacre em Lorena (2024), recorded at Ferrovia Estúdio in Lorena, São Paulo.
Thrash/death metal band from São Paulo, active since 2003, led by guitarist and vocalist André Gubber (also of Pentacrostic and ex-Nervochaos). Their debut album Condemning the Empty Souls (2013) was released by Shinigami Records and featured guest appearances by Fernanda Lira of Nervosa and Luiz Carlos Louzada of Vulcano; the follow-up Dissolved was recorded at Estúdio 44 between March and September 2016 and released in May 2017.
Thrash/death metal solo project from Araguari, Minas Gerais, founded on January 5, 2021 by Pietro Dinatto. The debut release Evil's Already Done (2021) contains eight tracks and draws primary influence from Sepultura and Testament.
Thrash/death metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, formed in 2004 and active until 2010. They released one demo, Under the Warfog, recorded at Engenho do Som Estúdio in April 2006, a five-track release built around warfare-themed lyrics and an eighties-rooted thrash/death approach. The band went through a significant lineup change in 2008 before disbanding.
Thrash/death metal band from Fernandópolis, São Paulo, active since 1997 with a lineup anchored by vocalist and guitarist Júnior Moreira. The band released the demo Bonebreaker in 2002, disbanded in 2009, reunited in 2012–2013, and returned with the nine-song EP Back from the Ashes in 2017, which included a Sepultura cover.
Thrash/death metal trio from São Paulo, formed in 2019 by Renata Petrelli (vocals, guitar), Aline Dutchi (bass, backing vocals), and Luana Diniz (drums). The band released the four-track EP Parasite in 2020 followed by their debut full-length Way of Perdition on May 6, 2022, via Dutch label Soulseller Records.
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