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Hear Brazil’s Ophiolatry bring hypnotic riffs, brutal vocals and crushing rhythms reminiscent of Hate Eternal, Nile and Steve Tucker-era Morbid Angel.

Watch Brazilian melodic DM outfit Hatefulmurder thrash their way through new single, “Call Out Your Soul.”

After 10 years between albums, Brazilian ragers Farscape are back and bashing out Teutonic thrash like it’s 1984.

We’ve got copies of the mammoth new United Forces: An Archive of Brazil’s Raw Metal Attack, 1986-1991 book and are shipping NOW. Grab yours!

Stream the latest deathly blasphemy, Immunidissime Spiritus, from Brazilian black metal scorchers Grave Desecrator

Hear Brazil/California death-doom duo Negative Vortex’s latest single from their ambitious double LP debut.

Peep the behind the scenes video from rising Brazilian thrash ultra-power trio The Damnation right now!

This week Demo:listen premieres the massively crushing debut EP from Brazilian death metal quartet Rotborn.

Brazil-based avant-garde black metallers Le Chant Noir trumpet the sounds of darkness on new album La société satanique des poètes morts.

Brazilian death thrashers Hatefulmurder release the video for their only Portuguese-language single, “Santificado Seja o Meu Ódio.”

Rising Brazilian melodic death metallers Venomous aren’t about to stay in their subgenre lane for this diverse, killer new EP.

Decibel bestows wisdom in our latest Top 5 Cosmic Black Metal Albums, featuring Kaon, Lumnos, Mesarthim, Offenbarung and Darkspace. Revolutions in celestial death are infinite.

Conflagracion cast fiery black metal spells on their debut EP Luciftias. Hear the first song to be unveiled from this Central and South American-based duo right now.

We have a limited number of advance copies of the February issue of Decibel, featuring our an exclusive new flexi disc single from murder metal kings Macabre.

Seasoned Brazilian death-tinged toad-thrashers Claustrofobia invite you to join their “Riff Cult.”

Writer/photographer/tireless scene advocate Jessica Marinho takes us on a guided tour of the bustling, burgeoning, extremely extreme Brazilian metal scene.

It’s the big Brazilian 1987 showdown with Sarcófago‘s I.N.R.I. vs. Sepultura‘s Schizophrenia.

In which we explore the best of the ’80s thrash metal cover brigade.

Don’t miss the sophomore album from São Paulo’s best kept black speed secret, Hellish Grave. Check out Hell No Longer Waits now!

Grindcore outfits Chepang and Test team up for a blistering, innovative split.

In the first installment of our new grindcore series, we take a deep drive into Brazil to check out Hutt, Test, Narayama and Lxs Jugadxs.

United Forces was a zine that ran from 1986-1991 out of Brazil and covered the early development of extreme metal, a new book compiles all the issues so readers can get the whole picture.

Brazilian percussive drone/noise/punk trio Deafkids rule harder than you might expect.

Brazilian sludge purveyors Jupiterian stream their new album and reveal its writing process.

Stream Dirty Grave‘s cover of “Evil (Is Going On)” by blues legend Willie Dixon now.

Patria have unveiled a beautiful lyric video to go with their song “Axis.” 

80’s Brazilian thrashers The Mist are finally seeing the first North American and European release of their 1989 debut, Phantasmagoria. 

Escarnium didn’t pull any punches on this one. “Omnis Mortuus Est – Interitus” is straightforward death metal at its finest.

Brazilian trio takes thrash beyond their country’s (bloody) roots on “Hostages.”

If any album boasting song titles like “Genital Tumor,” “Alcoholic Mosh,” and “Obscene Symphony” can be reasonably compared to a precious stone then, sure, Brazilian proto-blackened death metallers Sextrash’s raw, deliciously-nutty-meets-brutal-as-fuck 1990 full-length debut Sexual Carnage is one helluva singular hidden heavy metal gem. Put another way, when the band’s label calls the record —…