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Devil Mantra are a Brazilian blackened deathcore project whose footprint has grown across streaming and SoundCloud since the early 2020s — an Apple Music artist page (ID 1512807710) and a Spotify single dated 2020 mark their earliest official appearances, and their Deezer and Last.fm profiles confirm their categorisation within the blackened-deathcore tag, the same niche occupied internationally by bands like Lorna Shore, Worm Shepherd and Shadow of Intent. Their output has rolled out single by single rather than as a sudden album drop: Empire of the Damned in 2022, followed in 2023 by Hellbound, Inferius (uploaded to SoundCloud in February of that year) and The Fallen God, before the project consolidated those tracks alongside new material — Vultures among them — into the 2024 LP The One Who Came From The Shadows. Lyrically the project trades in the genre's standard demonological vocabulary: lyrics-aggregator sites carrying the Inferius transcript record lines lamenting an existence without purpose, life, love or future — the existential-infernal posture that distinguishes blackened deathcore from its purely chug-and-breakdown ancestors. Musically the band fold tremolo-picked, dissonant black metal melodicism over deathcore's slammed gravity-blast and breakdown architecture, a formula Brazil's broader extreme-metal community has been catching up to in real time: Brazil's deathcore presence has historically been weighted toward acts like Mortal Decay-influenced slam and the country's celebrated all-female deathcore band, with the blackened wing still small enough that any serious entrant — Devil Mantra included — meaningfully expands the national map.
San Antonio's Devil Mass emerged in 2022 dragging the full weight of death/doom and black metal into the same suffocating ritual. Their sound is a slow-moving catastrophe — cavernous, funereal, and utterly uncompromising in its devotion to darkness.
Philadelphia's Devil Master fuse black metal savagery with raw punk attitude, building a sound that is equal parts cemetery-shrouded and gutter-level filthy since forming in 2018. Their releases have earned them a cult following beyond the city, recognized as one of the sharper acts in the underground's blackpunk revival.
Devil May Cry is a symphonic black and death metal band from Zywiec, Poland, formed in 2022. The project merges symphonic grandeur with extreme metal intensity.
Boston's Devil on Horseback have been riding the line between classic heavy metal and hard rock since 2015, channeling the Puritan edge of New England into music built around swagger, riffs, and atmosphere. Their sound is rooted in the traditions of the genre but worn like well-broken leather.
Devil Pesten is a primitive atmospheric black metal band from Brazil, formed in 2022. The three-piece, featuring members under the monikers Incantor, Pestis, and Mysterio, released their debut album "Witching Blade of Darkness" in January 2022, with a tape edition limited to 30 copies released by Angel of Cemetery Productions.
Devil Rolling Dice is a thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2019. The band deliver fast, aggressive thrash metal in the tradition of the Greek underground metal scene.
Devil Seed is an epic doom metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2018. The band craft slow, heavy doom metal with epic grandeur and dark atmosphere.
Devil Unnamed is a heavy metal band from the Brunswick/Peine area of Lower Saxony, active since 2019 and dealing in the classic heavy metal currency of powerful riffs and commanding vocals. Their refusal to name the devil suggests a reverence for mystery and the unknown within traditional metal.
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