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Bruthus is a crossover thrash/heavy metal band formed around 2017–2018 in Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Influenced by 1980s and 90s metal and rock, the band sings in Portuguese and has released the EP "O Sacode" (2018) and the full-length "Comigo Não" (2019), sharing stages with acts such as Noturnall and Edu Falaschi.
Bruto is a thrash metal band from Gama, a satellite city of Brasília, Brazil, with roots going back to the mid-2000s. The band performs in Portuguese and blends thrash metal aggression with rock and roll energy, releasing the album "Mundo Destruído" and becoming the first metal band to win the Gama Popular Music Festival (FMPG).
Brutta is a blackened death metal band formed in 2022, featuring São Paulo-based drummer Gledson Gonçalves alongside guitarist/vocalist Adriano Ribeiro (Athemon) and bassist Tom MacLean (ex-Haken). The band released their self-titled debut album in June 2022, a high-speed eight-track assault exploring themes of emptiness, hatred, and religion, followed by the album "Horror" in 2025.
Breda-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2015, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
England-based project merging black metal's atmospheric bleakness with doom metal's crushing deliberation, active since 2025. Their compositions stretch between glacial tempos and frenzied tremolo passages, creating a dynamic tension between despair and fury.
Groove metal outfit from Kampen, formed in 2022. Their material trades in the satisfying crunch of heavy, rhythmically driven riffs that demand involuntary neck movement.
Death metal outfit from Tilburg, formed in 2012. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Porto-based black metal act active since 2016, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Portuguese lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
German psychedelic doom metal band from Augsburg, formed in 2025. They channel witchy psychedelic doom from the Swabian capital.
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