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Sangre Ritual ("Ritual Blood") forge heavy and doom metal from Barcelona, combining classic metal foundations with doom's crushing weight and ritualistic themes. Active since 2015, they bring blood-soaked ceremony to the Catalan underground.
Death metal and goregrind band from Viamão, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2013. The band self-released the EP Leucotomia in May 2013 and followed it with Colapso ~ Instinto in August 2015, a two-track release issued under a Creative Commons license.
Death metal band from Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 1998. The band released the full-length album Fleshback on June 1, 2012 through Terceiro Mundo Chaos Discos (TMCD006), recorded and mixed during the second half of 2011 at Soundstorm Studio in Bento Gonçalves; the nine-track album features song titles including 'Purulent Vaginal Discharge' and 'Coprophilic Tendencies'.
Extreme metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2017 by vocalist/guitarist Verme and drummer Sinuê, later expanding to include guitarist Nekrose and bassist Zé. The band released three albums: A Sombra que me Acompanhava Era a Mesma do Diabo (2020), Seja Bem-Vindo de Volta para a Cruz (2021) — the cover art of which was created by Norwegian artist Linda H. Syvertsen — and Eu Sou a Derrota (2024).
Thrash metal and hardcore band from Piracicaba, São Paulo, active since 1997. The band released the album Vença Seus Medos in July 2023 on TGR Sounds, a ten-track record catalogued as hardcore metal and crossover.
Denver's Sanguin Blodmoon are among the newest arrivals in Colorado's thriving black metal underground, formed in 2025 with a sound rooted in the raw, hostile fundamentals of the genre. Their name — blending Latin and Old Norse blood-moon imagery — signals a project interested in darkness as both aesthetic and practice.
Apeldoorn's Sanguinarian merge black, gothic, and industrial metal from the Veluwe since 2022. Their vampiric name and forest-city origins channel nocturnal predation through a multi-genre approach.
Sanguinarium deal in death metal from the Provencal town of Carpentras, channeling the blood-hall themes their name describes. Formed in 2021, they bring Vaucluse brutality to the French death metal scene.
Winschoten's Sanguinary deal in brutal death metal, standard death, and grindcore from the far northeast of the Netherlands since 2019. Their blood-themed name and border-region origins channel extremity from the Dutch-German frontier.
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