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Castlevania is a Brazilian power metal band formed in 2004, featuring Gabriel on guitar and bass, Julia on vocals and keyboards, Rayana on guitar, and César on vocals. The band draws heavy thematic inspiration from dark fantasy and the Castlevania video game series, and released their debut demo Castle of Power in 2006, which included a cover of the iconic track "Bloody Tears" from Castlevania II. Their music has been described as epic, free-flowing power/speed metal with fluid and dynamic songwriting.
Folk metal act from Vevey, Switzerland, formed in 2022. They blend traditional folk melodies and instrumentation with heavy metal energy, drawing from the rich cultural landscape of the Swiss Riviera.
Death metal, thrash, and metalcore band from Wolgast on the Baltic coast of Germany, active since 2001. With over two decades of activity, Castoreum are seasoned veterans of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern metal scene.
Castración is a solo project by Santiago-based artist Lucero Guerra, active from 2018, blending raw black metal, harsh noise, and power electronics under the conceptual framework of the body as an instrument of war. The project released Terrorismo Corporal (2018) and Regímenes Carnales (2019), the latter issued as a limited handmade cassette through Octavo Canto, with themes drawn from biopolitics, queerness, and state violence.
Houston brutal death metal outfit drawing from Cannibal Corpse and Gorgasm, delivering technically demanding riffs and guttural vocals with surgical clarity. Members carry pedigrees from Horrific Demise and Desecrate the Faith.
New York old-school death metal band whose churning, mid-paced brutality and ferocious vocals flip the genre's typical subject matter toward themes of empowerment, documented on their Dark Descent Records releases.
Brutal death metal band from Odense, Denmark, active since 2011. They deliver punishing, guttural extremity from the Funen island.
Castrivenian is a Brazilian raw black metal project formed in 2024, drawing clear inspiration from the European second-wave scene of the mid-to-late 1990s, particularly early Satanic Warmaster, early Marduk, and Moonblood. In their first year the project released two demos — S.H.T.I. (April 2024) and Eternal Fog's Rebirth (2024, with a cassette release through Wolfkult Religion) — plus a split, demonstrating rapid and prolific output rooted in a harsh, orthodox black metal aesthetic.
Tampa-based death/thrash project helmed by multi-instrumentalist Dan Castro, blending Floridian death metal aggression with thrash riffing and a rotating cast of guest contributors including members of Suffocation.
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