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Melodic death metal act from Turin, formed in 2018. Coiled Around Thy Spine delivers intricate, melody-driven death metal from the Piedmontese capital.
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Boone, North Carolina's Coils of the Serpent weave melodic black metal grandeur into a death metal foundation, producing atmospheric and serpentine compositions that balance aggression with dark, sweeping melody.
Coiotes S.A. is a stoner metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2023. They released their debut album "Daqui Pra Frente Eh Nois" in April 2023, a ten-track record with lyrics in Portuguese blending heavy stoner riffs with hardcore energy and influences from Black Sabbath, Clutch, and Sleep. Singles "Cola Com Nois" and "Melhor Parte" drew attention from the heavy music press ahead of the album's release.
Stoner metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, rumbling since 2007. Cojones delivers heavy, fuzz-laden grooves with a laid-back swagger that belies the band's nearly two decades of output.
Chicago's Cokegoat stretch sludge metal across progressive song architectures, blending crushing heaviness with dynamic shifts and a willingness to let songs breathe and evolve over extended running times.
Georgia grindcore act Colacon specialize in short, chaotic detonations of noise and speed, delivering relentless blasting punishment with zero intent of letting up.
Colapso was a grindcore and crossover band from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, active from 2004 until splitting up around 2007. The band recorded their first demo "É o Fim" ("It's the End") in 2005 with eleven tracks, and later released a split with fellow Recife act Corroídos pelo Ódio in late 2006 that gained wider circulation across Brazil. The group disbanded after members departed to pursue other musical projects.
Forged in the small coastal town of Anchieta, Santa Catarina, Colapsus emerged in 2023 as part of a stubborn current of Brazilian extreme metal that refuses to abandon the country's foundational template — the Sarcofago-Mutilator-Vulcano axis where black, thrash, and speed metal blur into a single corroded weapon. Their debut album Order of Execution arrived in March 2024 as four tracks of unsigned, self-released defiance, billing themselves with the war-cry that they are the executioners of weak scum, soldiers of all evil. It is a deliberately old-school proposition: war, violence, hatred, and Satanic invocation rendered without pretense or polish. Anchieta is not a city associated with Brazil's metal lineage — Santa Catarina's extreme scene tends to cluster around Florianopolis and Jaragua do Sul, and the great Brazilian black/thrash hubs lie far north in Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo — which makes Colapsus's existence an act of small-town conviction rather than scene affiliation. The band operates in the lineage of bands like Whipstriker, Power From Hell, and Farscape, the Brazilian first-wave revivalists who treat blackened speed metal as devotional practice rather than nostalgia. Order of Execution is short by design, the album functioning less as a statement than as a calling card, a declaration that the underground torch still burns in unlikely places. With no label backing and a circulation limited largely to Bandcamp, Colapsus belongs to the vast tier of Brazilian extreme bands who exist primarily for the cassette traders, the demo collectors, and the small circle of listeners who still believe that conviction matters more than reach. Whether they outlast the genre's brutal attrition rate remains open, but their opening volley plants a recognizable flag: another voice in the long, unyielding chorus of Brazilian black-thrash.
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