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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 —…

Ah, December — the time of the year when everyone puts out their “best of” lists and thinks about albums that will come out in summer 2015. We’re just as guilty at Decibel; our annual top 40 extravaganza is probably on your nightstand. This would lead you to think that no new music comes out…

Brazil’s Crucifixion BR recently signed a deal with Horror Pain Gore Death Productions to release their debut full-length Destroying the Fucking Disciples of Christ. The Deciblog emailed with drummer Juliana Novo (aka DarkMoon) and singer/guitarist Marcio Guterres (aka Lord Grave War) to learn about all things heavy south of the equator. Tell us a bit…

Because every day another band records another song.  Because 83% of those songs are unlistenable and you can’t be bothered to sift through the dreck.  Because metal is about not giving a shit and waking your own personal storm.  Because this post was up last week for about a minute, but you didn’t see it,…