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Formed by guitarist and vocalist Jean Nightbreaker, Murdeath delivered tightly wound thrash and speed metal with a NWOBHM edge across releases like the 2014 EP "Apocalipse Sangrento" and the 2016 full-length "Sob o Signo...". The Curitiba outfit announced a hiatus in late 2022 following a final show with Skull Fist in early 2023.
Mörbidez is a one-man black thrash project that recorded its entire debut, Sob o Signo de Belial, between April and May 2020 at the creator's own Casa da Bruxa studio in Vitória. The album channels the ragged energy of first-wave black metal and South American speed metal through nine Portuguese-language tracks steeped in satanic imagery, and was released in June 2020 alongside a bonus covers EP titled Limbo.
A veteran deaththrash outfit originally assembled in the late 1980s and documented by the 1987 demo "Insane Mutilation," drawing heavily from the aggressive edge of Kreator, Slayer, Celtic Frost, and Venom. After a long dormancy the band returned to activity and released the EP "The Evil Never Dies" through Oliver Discos, reaffirming their commitment to old-school extremity.
A raw thrash/black metal horde from the northeast, NightHunter deal in aggressive, blasphemous metal with lyrical themes of death, paganism, and alcohol-fueled misanthropy. Their discography includes the full-length "Hunting the Christian Scum" and the follow-up "The Return of the Evil Empire" (2014), both carrying the corrosive spirit of the South American underground.
Nigurah blend the groove-heavy stomp of mid-era Sepultura with thrash and death metal aggression, arriving from the same Rio Grande do Sul scene that has long punched above its weight in Brazilian extreme metal. The quartet — Rafael Prado on vocals, Fernando Cezar Jr on guitar, Felipe Ribeiro on bass, and Luke Santos on drums — released their debut EP "Incendiar" in October 2020.
Self-described as "deadly corrosive crossover," this Brasília five-piece — led by vocalist Lauro "Zapata" and guitarist Gabriel "Zenön" — released their debut full-length Corrosive Hatred in November 2021, a ten-track assault recorded at Texas Studio. The record blends thrash riffing with hardcore-punk velocity and a powerviolence-adjacent ferocity, with tracks like "Destroy the State" and "Underground is Not a Competition" making the band's antagonistic stance explicit.
Formed by Thomas and Edu in the mid-2000s, Nuclëar Fröst channel Swedish d-beat hardcore, Japanese crust, and 1980s thrash into a politically charged war-metal hybrid. Their 2009 album Nuclear Winter Gloom and the 2014 self-titled EP show a band equally indebted to Discharge and early Bathory, with antifascist and nuclear-apocalypse lyrics running throughout. They have also appeared on several international splits alongside acts from the global crust underground.
One Thousand Dead play a direct, old-school-rooted blend of thrash and death metal in the tradition of early Brazilian extreme metal. Their debut full-length Guerra, released through RTR Records in November 2022, compiles ten tracks that the band began developing during the COVID-19 pandemic after signing a multi-album deal with the label.
Pandemmy occupies the ferocious overlap between thrash and death metal in the tradition of Kreator, Sepultura, and Hypocrisy, building a catalog across three full-lengths: "Reflections & Rebellions" (2013), "Rise of a New Strike" (2016), and "Subversive Need" (2020). The Recife quartet has shared stages with Exodus, Abbath, and Amon Amarth, and their decade-plus of work reflects a band constantly pushing the technical and aggressive ceiling of the genre.
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