Alright, so there are 15,565 bands listed on that site. By checking them against (a slightly out-of-date version of) the MA database, I was able to eliminate all but around 1,500. Out of those, a few hundred were blacklisted and two dozen or so are already on the research list. So that leaves a bit over 1,100 for Pag and me to manually check.

A problem I noticed right away is that the guy seems to be rather sloppy, sometimes with spelling names, but particularly, infuriatingly with countries, so that a lot of the remaining stuff is just listed bands with some random-ass country assigned. We're manually eliminating those, but it follows that anything added to the research list from that site will have a ? added to the country of origin. Another problem is that the guy also includes a lot of thrashcore, ostensibly in the sense of fast hardcore (but not sure). Metallic hardcore and metalcore too. I'll add these as well for now, though.

Needs research. - Death Agressor
Location: Brazil
- Obscure metal band that formed no later than 1989, and they have a Facebook page. Haven't looked at it thoroughly or messaged to ask if they released anything.
https://www.facebook.com/deathagressor/

Sent them a message in Portuguese asking if they recorded anything. Will keep you updated.

^Thank you.

Needs research. - Alerta Vermelho (translates to Red Alert)
Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil
https://imgur.com/a/RK3dUFO (article from "Metal Blood" #4 'zine, 1989/1990)
Roughly translated parts of the above article: band was formed in July 88, only now the band stabilizes with MADSON (bass and vocals), Paulo Red (guitar and vocals) and Boca (vocal drums). The sound of metal one O at ban ALERTA is a thrash core with good foundations and great work, that's what we can see in the first Demo-tape from da, which contains the songs... (titles in the article match the ones listed here:
https://www.guitars101.com/threads/aler ... are.95729/
(link is dead)

Needs research. - Fahrenheit
Location: Teresina, Piauí, Brazil
Genre: Thrash/Speed Metal
Band members: https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... les/181752 (bass, vocals)
Marcilio (drums)
Alexandre (guitars)
- article in "Metal Blood" #4 (1989/'90): https://imgur.com/a/YHfxQ7K
The article above compares their sound to Slayer and Sodom, and says that they recorded an unofficial demo with the songs "Victim of Destiny", "Fill or Die" (possibly a typo of "Kill or Die"), "Mong Four Walls", and "Wear Minds".
Referenced in this article for the band Scud, which Fawster (R.I.P. 2022) went on to play in.
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud_(banda)

Possibly helpful fact about The Thrash Metal Guide is that it's authored by Metallum reviewer Bayern. He may be able to answer questions about obscure bands on it.
https://www.metal-archives.com/users/bayern

Needs research. - Ofence
Needs research. - Noisy Life
- 2 more Brazilian bands that are featured in 1989 "Mad House" #3 'zine.
https://imgur.com/a/9mbb1gX

Needs research. - Witchcraft
Location: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Genre: Thrash Metal
https://imgur.com/a/4Gm1Y8C (article in "Mad House" #3 'zine)
Rough translation to English:


Needs research. - Perpetuo
Also from the same 'zine: https://imgur.com/a/JbhwWeB
Formed May 1986.

Needs research. - Aggressiva / Aggressive, name later changed to Agente Laranja
Location: Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Needs research. - O.V.E.C.
Location: Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
https://imgur.com/a/d0xfQmG

Needs research. - Putrid
Location: Ribeirão Pires, São Paulo, Brazil
https://imgur.com/a/7HgO0bZ
(mentions "The Storm" demo. Better that someone fluent in the language looks at all of these articles from the same 'zine)

Needs research. - Norge

Location: Norway
Genre: Black Metal (presumably)
Years Active: 2002
Members: Sorg

Found while cleaning up a report. This was a one-off side-project from Sorg of Sorgsvart, which resulted in a self-titled demo in 2002. It's currently included in Sorgsvart's discography (EDIT: deleted from the site). It is probably the same black metal the main band plays, but I cannot find samples right now. VR is also somewhat shaky; our notes (on both Sorgsvart and the demo page) call it a "cassette demo", but there's no artwork/photos to corroborate.

The track listing:
1. Kråkaviso
2. Gaukatradl
3. Norigs menn
4. Revolusjonens Røyst
5. Eg veit meg eit land
6. Vidlamaen
7. Den edle riddar Valivan
8. Draumen om Norig den lever nu

Needs research. - Napalm Kill Death Terror
Location: Germany
- reviews in 2 'zines, "Epicus Doom" #5 (1989, where their tape is available for a high price of 20dm), and "Giants Lore" #3 (1990). Both reviews in German language: https://imgur.com/a/PCIObZ4
They seem to be a joke band, though might qualify for the site as many other joke bands have.

Both reviews, translated to English:



Needs research. - T.C.O.T. / Tank Corps of Thrash
Discography: "Das Lied Vom Huhn" / "Boschwanza Metal" demos (for sale, 10dm)
- Reviewed in "Epicus Doom" #5 'zine (1989): https://imgur.com/a/aBBCyzi
Translated to English:
Contact: Christoph Neumann
Mühlenstr. 7
6551 Nusbaum

Here you have the album of Vir7u4l. I think that it's in the Nu Metal or Nu Metal/Groove field. Judge yourself:



If you decide that it's a band that deserves to be included, I have more info of them.

They have a YouTube channel with two rehearsals from 1988, surely recorded on tape. Whether they distributed this is unknown. I can maybe ask about it but it might be a bit complicated to phrase the question in an understandable way.
https://www.youtube.com/@deathagressor6113/

No, as I said I have it in a want list (I mean, the italian Trachoma).... just a list of band names and demo/album titles. Nothing more, nothing less...

ah, thanks. well, as I said everybody can use my drafts to fulfill the missing information. to be honest i don't mind about points or awards. I just to it for the sake of completeness and sharing information with everybody and make the M-A the best resource available in the world despite I know many people who hide information on purpose in order to boycott M-A (same things: just because this or that band was not accepted and things like that...)

Samples are on VKontakte but I can't find any page for them. Just songs:

https://vk.com/search?c%5Bper_page%5D=2 ... n%5D=audio

you may all probably know this page, but in case I post the link. Lot of obscure russian bands from the 90's and some new stuff. With great scans and tons of audio samples, if not full tapes. One of the best resources for old russian metal:

https://vk.com/club119219479

Please read the OP. This thread isn't for assessing a band's metalness per se. If you think the band qualifies and there is evidence for a valid release, submit it to the queue.

Azmodes, I moved Incignia from the part 1 of my list to part 2 as I've reached the character limit on the first post, just so you can update it on the main research list.

Saw the news on the main site, regarding the bands that need research. Checked Lithuanian bands in that file; particularly, Ramybės Skveras (wrong misspeling in the file, Ramybes Skvras) has already been blacklisted for being non-metal (https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Ra ... 3540449252).

Will check for more info on LTU bands from time to time.

Thanks, removed! Glad to see the news post is helping.

Found an interesting website for bands from Uzbekistan even if a lot of bands from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are listed as well:

http://uzrock.net/Groups/groups.html


Lot of unknown bands. Most notably:

- Forrest Gump (later Rekviem): it seems they recorded one demo with 15 tracks in 1999 ("Den' sveta") and one more in 2002 with 8 songs as Revkiem:

http://uzrock.net/Groups/forrest.html

- Conquistador: really nice thrash metal from the 90's (still active in the 2000). According to their VK page, it seems they recorded a lot of albums: "Apokalipsis" LP (?) 1997, "Seventh Life" Rehearsal Album (?) 2003, "Pravosudie" Demo 2006, "Omen" LP (?) 2009,

https://vk.com/audios-49739646
https://vk.com/conquistador91

- Kresh / Crash: active in the 90's. They recorded a demo in 1997

http://uzrock.net/Groups/crash.html

- Detonator: active from 1995 to 1999. They recorded 2 demos ("Krov za krov" and "Imperiya zla") and one live demo ("Beguschaya po volnam") in 1998

http://uzrock.net/History/detonat.html

- Kapriz Ognya: "Obrechennyiy na stradanie" Album 2005 (7 songs)

http://uzrock.net/Groups/ko.html

- Trupnyi Yad: Live at DK TashSelmash "Krematoriy" 1998 (5 tracks) + new tracls 2014

http://uzrock.net/Groups/tya.html

- Rejs 09: it seems their latest albums (the page redirects to their old website) are towards progressive metal, but they recorded no less than 10 albums from 1990 and a 30-minutes live recording in 1991. Need to theck their latest albums (all released on CD, as it seems):

http://www.progressor.net/flight09/albums.html

- Cross-Section: melodic metal. It looks like they recorded a studio album in the 2000's:

http://www.crosssection.narod.ru/

- My World Inside: they released one single at least ("Shagaya naprolom" in 2020, but it sounds more metalcore:

https://vk.com/my_world_inside
https://vk.com/audios-54515906

- Sweet Silence: it seems they were planning to record a demo in the second half of 2000's:

http://uzrock.net/Groups/ss.html

- Spirit Experience: they may have recorded something (singles or demos):

https://vk.com/club22344338

- Savage Soul: deathcore, maybe not interesting. They have several songs:

https://vk.com/savage_soul_official


And several other bands (metal, thrash, death) whose links do not work anymore.

Plus, I add from my datas:

- Reinkarnator: a 20-minute album (year unknown)
- Shtorm: threre is a 45-minutes demo recorded in 1989

Needs research. - Arbitrage
Location: Lynden, Washington, US
Listed genre: Industrial Metal (a christian band)
Band member: https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... ink/794227 (all words and music)
Discography: "Music for the Sacrifice" (1991, cassette)
eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/325772337306
Write-up/more information: https://christiantapeunderground.wordpr ... sacrifice/
- information about more of their releases, some or all not as promising sounding: https://downthelinezine.com/cue/arbitrage

Their eponymous demo has two tracks (https://vk.gy/releases/zea-na/25891/zea-na/), of which one is DISCHARGE (and the same song as one of the two links you sent). They can be heard here:
https://voca.ro/1dS2vUw1bV5c (01. xxx mistake)
https://voca.ro/11fNidJSMtj6 (02. DISCHARGE)

Hope this helps!

I found the full album stream on YouTube. For me it sounds more like cybergrind instead of death metal (the genre is updated on Discogs too).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQY2q5V6hhY

Their ReverbNation page has some samples taken from the album.

https://www.reverbnation.com/thebloodof ... ones/songs

Found their track "Fifteen" from "Headsplitting" EP. Band's line-up is also presented in description.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ucSvVyh0A

Kenner found samples and added this one. Straightforward thrash.

Thanks. I will submit them based on this evidence.

I'm not in the habit of looking at this forum very often, but due to the interesting information you presented in the last few days, I remembered this topic and that maybe you could post some Brazilian bands that still need information, and to my surprise and happiness these bands were here. Well, I'll try to help with the little information I've got...



Despite the band had playing some gigs, all the information I got until today was that the band didn't have any official records recorded. Anyway, I sent a message to the former frontman of the band and any news I'll post here. BTW, they are from Araxá, Minas Gerais.



I ended up submitting this band before seeing this post (but if any moderator sees any basis for what I say, feel free to decline my submission and ask the post author here to re-submit it), because the information found in the fanzine Metal Blood #4 are enough for the band to be submitted. It implies that the demo is official when it is mentioned "[...] a thrash metal core with good bases and a great work, that's what we can prove in the band's first Demo-tape (...)" and also in this part "[...] without a doubt a great debut of the band in Demo-Tape.".



One of the most important Thrash/Death Metal bands in scene from Piauí state, having played some shows in the region. The band appears to have lasted into the early 1990s and is likely to have only recorded a demo. In addition to having sent a message to their former vocalist, a contact has a tape of the band and was left to verify if it was the same mentioned in Metal Blood #4 or another recording. I hope to have news in the next few days. By the way, the band's sound can be checked out here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de3Fn5B0IkM



Despite never having heard Ofence, and the band having played several shows with metal bands, all the information I read about the band was that their sound was a hardcore similar to Ação Direta, Cólera, and early Ratos de Porão. The band released 3 demo-tapes at the end of the 80's and beginning of the 90's: "Immortality", "Descontrol" and "Let's Get Drunk!!!", but as I said above, I don't know if they had enough metal elements to be accepted on the site.
As for Noisylife it seems to be a Death/Grind band, but the review doesn't mention any recording, even rehearsal.



Witchcraft: The review in Mad House #3 implies that the two songs were written in the band's first rehearsals (and not that the band recorded a rehearsal with these songs). I don't doubt that the band recorded and released at least some rehearsals, as I know people who corresponded with them at the time. I have a picture of them too that I got from one of those people, but I need to look it up here. That's all I know at the moment.

Perpetuo: From the review of Mad House #3, it seems that the band had already composed 10 (?) songs, but that they hadn't recorded anything yet. The band's proposal is Death Metal/Grind Core.

Aggressive: The band played some shows in Goias state and played the Thrash Metal/Crossover style. The people there who played with them and participated in the scene and that I managed to ask about couldn't tell me if the band had recorded anything (in the review it's not clear if the 6 compositions were recorded in some rehearsal or something like that), even this "future" demo "Putrid Society". Shortly after, the band changed its name to Agente Laranja (Agent Orange), but with the same sound proposal (Thrash Metal/Crossover). I don't know if they recorded anything under that name either.

*Personal note about "core" term: I interviewed some people who lived in the scene in the 80's to find out more about these terms that were used in Brazil at the time ("Thrashcore, Deathcore, etc.") to see if it had any resemblance to what is done today, and everyone told me that the perception at the time was that they used that term when metal bands (more common in Thrash and Death Metal) didn't have (or had very few) ) guitar solos. An example of a landmark "Deathcore" album at the time is Psycho Possessor's "Toxin Diffusion".

O.V.E.C.: Hardcore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B68KR8-bt9c

Putrid: The band's review doesn't bring any relevant information about the band's style (the fourth question is about that, and the answer is quite ambiguous, as they answer that they don't stick to labels - if it's a Thrash, Death, Black, etc. - despite mentioning the bands they admire in question 6), but who make a sound without technique, fast, with simple rhythms and fucked up vocals. The last question, which asks about the band's future, is answered in a way that the band's priority is to rehearse, create more songs and do more shows to promote the band's sound, and no demos or other recordings.

BONUS: Insane War: I though that the band was in the same situation as Death Agressor and that they wouldn't have recorded anything official (although I had already seen a rehearsal from 1989 that is 13 min. and that is probably not the same rehearsal that was reviewed in Metal Blood # 4), as no release I've read attests to this fact. However, it's a band that emerged in the rise of Warfare Noise opportunity, and may be that they have tried to get a spot on the third edition of the compilation. I'll try to find more information in the future as well.

And well, I leave the space here free whenever you all need translations from Portuguese. Unfortunately I haven't been here much, and I keep forgetting to look at this thread, but just send me a PM or email and I'll be happy to help in any way I can.

Well, I hope these information can be of some use.

Both of their albums listed on Discogs are streamed on YouTube. In my opinion it's pure blues rock as described.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWjZunhv_n8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ2Y9ttRRrU



Took a closer look on Мимо Проходили and Scream of Dream. Former sounds progressive rock, the latter could be submitted as progressive metal (still quite borderline in my opinion).

https://www.realrocks.ru/id244380/music/1912528/ (Мимо Проходили)
https://mp3.pm/song/124926974/Scream_Of ... m_2005_g./ (Scream of Dream)

Thanks for the information, Dudgeon. That's completely fine that you submitted Alerta Vermelho, and I'm glad to know they may soon be added to the site. If you scroll slightly to the right in the new research master list, if the posting user's name is in green lettering, it means that they approve of other people submitting the band if enough information is found.
https://azmodeszer.github.io/mabandrese ... earch.html

It sounds like there isn't much significant or hopeful information about Noisy Life or Putrid, and they could both be removed in my opinion. O.V.E.C. should be removed as well (hardcore, from samples). Ofence could probably be removed, based on the music descriptions that you've read about them from more than one source.

Daemon (US, nu-metal) and Cryptikator (US, non-metallic cybergrind) can also be removed and blacklisted. Thanks for finding the samples, Miro.

Song "Crawling to the Sunshine":
https://mp3.pm/song/43089442/Altera_-_C ... _Sunshine/

3 songs on the album were loaded on YouTube. I think this goes more to the rock side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGbNuesB_jc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl6ny_Wq80Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAq7gHVw24Y

List should be caught up to here now.


hmmmmm, fair enough, I suppose, and thanks for providing some context. I rejected your sub for Red Alert before reading this. I'll restore it.

Yeah, I already asked the guy a couple years ago if he could upload the full album. One song ("The Promise") is ok, another one ("One Man's World") is just the typical romantic fill-in like in every eastern rock album and the third one ("Unromantic Love Song") is just so-so, modern hard rock/grunge somehow. Waiting for more songs but never seen any update since long time

Can't open the link but on VKontakte there should be one song ("Epilepsy Bout") from the tape (last song "Epilepsy" ?). There are several other songs by Altera but I have no idea if it's the same band as none of them are listed on the tape:

https://vk.com/search?c%5Bper_page%5D=2 ... n%5D=audio

I thank you for the kind words, RetinalBurns, and also for sharing this link with bands with relevant information (thanks also to Azmodes for the work). One of the reasons I rarely look here is that I don't know how this topic works, or even does research, but this link will give me a head start before I try to submit anything.

Regarding Noisy Life and Putrid, unfortunately it was very common in Brazil in the 80's for some bands to only send releases to fanzines. In fact, in the editorial of this issue of Metal Blood #4, Rolldão comments on this part (a direct quote, starting with the seventeenth line of the Editorial):

"[...] We would also like to make it very clear that we will only disclose the bands that send their "complete" material, since most bands only send us the biography (release) and a photo [...]"

Several reasons at the time explain this practice, such as amateurism and costs, but many fanzines ended up publishing these releases without much solid information about these bands, and this brings an ambiguity to anyone who is doing some research about these bands nowadays. By the way, this is more materiality for a thread I promised KingSpooky (and which I really hope will come out later this year). But resuming, I don't think these bands should go to the Blacklist, but I believe they need more materiality about recordings (mainly), and if possible samples, especially Noisylife. As for the O.V.E.C. and Ofence, I would recommend leaving it on the Blacklist, because all the information confirms that they are Hardcore bands. I don't know if there are enough stuffs from them that can be characterized as metal, and if there is, I also don't know if they would be enough to be accepted, because it seems that they are bands that had, even in the underground, a recording career - even if demos - more successful than most Brazilian bands. I'm going to leave here a inner tape cover of "Let's Get Drunk!!!" from 1989 (I was told that the demos were on YouTube, but I couldn't find them):

https://i.ibb.co/JpjjtyX/Ofence-Let-s-G ... -inner.jpg



I thank you immensely, Azmodes. Incidentally, this is an obstacle that some people have faced since the Brazilian magazines of the 1980s began to emerge on the Internet. Here in Brazil it wasn't very common to use other terms to designate other styles (many Thrash Metal bands were called Power and Death Metal in the 80's by these magazines and fanzines), and I'm interviewing a lot of people to find out more about it how this was addressed. Metalcore, Thrashcore and Deathcore were seen in the same way. All are synonymous with "Crossover" as we understand it today, so to speak (Metalcore was the nomenclature we understand nowadays what Crossover is. Thrashcore and Deathcore are Thrash Metal and Death Metal without guitar solos, with a more "direct" approach, according to reports and interviews I did about the theme. But in all cases they are bands with more metal elements than hardcore), as the term was not used in Brazil in the 1980s. At least not what these styles ended up becoming and are understood today.
The term Thrash Metal itself only began to be widely used from 1988/1989, largely due to the success of bands like Metallica, Anthrax and Testament, and bands that had a sound like Slayer, Dark Angel and Kreator for example, were called Death Metal (pronounced "Déti Metal").

I'm going to leave here a promotional poster that demonstrates how things weren't very clear at the time (it looks like a meme, but it's not!):

https://i.ibb.co/fFg1dtJ/Slayer.jpg

Needs research. - Red Vette
Location: Gomel, Belarus
Listed genre: Hard Rock / Metal
Line-up: Alexey Korshun / Алексей Коршун (also in Thelema, Chemical Warfare and T7T) on vocals
Discography: "Live After Budun" Live CD-R

I only have this photo and there are 2 songs, "Electroshit" and "Let It Beer" (from the live CD?) on VKontakte. Seems not bad, a mix of metal, crossover, hard rock...:

https://vk.com/audio?section=recoms_blo ... cMAFlfcFIU

https://imgur.com/jT0tJDM

Added. - Cronation

^Looks good to submit.