51 Best Colombian Metal Bands of All Time! [August 2022]

The 51 Today's Best Colombian Metal Bands of the Underworld.

Spanish version. A Selection of the best Colombian metal bands of all time. Last Updated on

#1 Nebiros

nebiros Bandas Colombianas
Black Metal, Medellin.
Label: Necrolust Records
Spanish version.(20 hours, September, 24, 2024.)

Average: 4.2 Votes(239)

Nebiros is a colombian Black Metal band formed in the year of 1990. At that time the original alignment was Sacrilegus (vocals), Feretrus (guitar) and Black Satan (drums), a first original formation which would begin to write ... (Keep reading...)

#4 Parabellum

parabellum Bandas Colombianas
Black Metal, Medellin.
Label: Blasfemia Records
Spanish version.(21 hours, August, 14, 2020.)

Average: 4.3 Votes(192)

Like Nekromantie, Reencarnacion and Sacrilegio, this is one of the most influential underground metal bands in the world. Considered the first extreme metal band of Colombia and one of the first in South America. For this reason, Parabellum has a great reputation and c... (Keep reading...)

#5 Typhon

typhon Bandas Colombianas
Black Metal, Medellín.
Label: Warmaster Records
Spanish version.(09 hours, April, 02, 2020.)

Average: 4.2 Votes(182)

One of the old school bands of Black Metal in Medellin, Colombia. This is one of the Black Metal Bands that maintained an intense communication with Dead and Euronym... (Keep reading...)

#7 Eshtadur

eshtadur Bandas Colombianas
Death, Melodic, Metal, Symphonic, Pereira.
Label: Bleeding Music Records
Spanish version.(21 hours, August, 14, 2020.)

Average: 4.1 Votes(155)

The Colombian band Eshtadur, emerges as a musical project that was born at the end of 2005, with its first line-up a single was made, Timo Be Timo , which was the cause of initiating the process and the sound they was searching, followed by the first album called Rebellion Of Angels , with 7 tracks composed by ... (Keep reading...)

#8 Masacre

masacre Bandas Colombianas
Death Metal, Medellín.
Label: Osmose Productions
Spanish version.(17 hours, September, 20, 2024.)

Average: 4.4 Votes(153)

Created in 1988, its extreme metal began with: Sacrum, True Death Death, Total Death, Under the Sign of Violence... (Keep reading...)

#9 Vitam Et Mortem

vitam et mortem Bandas Colombianas
Death Metal, El Carmen De Viboral.
Label: Satanath Records
Spanish version.(15 hours, March, 17, 2022.)

Average: 4.1 Votes(137)

This Colombian band was created by Julian Trujillo (voice), Julian Rodriguez (drums) and Alejandro Betancur (guitar) in El Carmen de Viboral in March 2002.... (Keep reading...)

#10 Twilight Glimmer

twilight glimmer Bandas Colombianas
Death Metal, Pereira.
Label: Impetus Fire
Spanish version.(08 hours, May, 29, 2022.)

Average: 4.0 Votes(133)

Twilight Glimmer is a Colombian band born in December of 1998. From the beginning they would be recognized as a very promising group that brought together a group of high level musicians, which is why they would begin to be invited to the most important cities throughout Colombia in the best stages. Up to these da... (Keep reading...)

#12 Blasfemia

blasfemia Bandas Colombianas
Black Thrash Metal, Medellín.
Label: Independiente
Spanish version.(11 hours, November, 14, 2020.)

Average: 4.0 Votes(122)

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#13 Nekromantie

nekromantie Bandas Colombianas
Ultra Metal, Medellin.
Label: Madman Productions
Spanish version.(20 hours, June, 20, 2020.)

Average: 4.4 Votes(120)

In the mid-eighties, with heavy and speed metal invading the world, a musical proposal called Nekromantie was processed, consisting of: Norman (bass), Viking (bass), Q.E.P.D., Carlos (drums) and Sergio (guitar). Musically influenced by bands like Slayer, Kreator, Death Angel, Sodom, Exodus, Metallica and Motorhead... (Keep reading...)

#14 Reencarnacion

reencarnacion Bandas Colombianas
Black Thrash Metal , Medellin.
Label: Goat Vomits Productions
Spanish version.(11 hours, April, 12, 2020.)

Average: 4.3 Votes(116)

Reencarnación is a band that was created in the city of Medellin, Colombia in 1987, after the dissolution of the Colombian band Profecia. Víctor Raúl Jaramillo (Piolín), begins to lead this project with compositions that had been carried out since April 1984. Tog... (Keep reading...)

#16 Goretrade

goretrade Bandas Colombianas
Brutal Death Metal, Pereira.
Label: Sevared Records
Spanish version.(09 hours, December, 21, 2020.)

Average: 4.3 Votes(112)

Goretrade is a band created in Pereira, Colombia by César Vera and currently headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Have almost 17 years of career and quite a few tours that include visits to more than 15 countries and in the most important festivals of extreme metal throughout the world. ... (Keep reading...)

#17 Innerhate

innerhate Bandas Colombianas
Death Metal Contemporáneo, Manizales.
Label: Veterans Records
Spanish version.(10 hours, September, 18, 2021.)

Average: 4.1 Votes(105)

As time went by, the sound of Innerhate became more mature and developed a style of its own, which characterizes its current sound, a fast, aggressive and technical death metal... ... (Keep reading...)

#18 Gutgrinder

gutgrinder Bandas Colombianas
Brutal Death Metal, Cali.
Label: Independiente
Spanish version.(14 hours, June, 25, 2020.)

Average: 4.0 Votes(104)

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#19 Brainblast

brainblast Bandas Colombianas
Technical / Progressive Death Metal, Bogota - Colombia.
Label: Vmbrella (germany)
Spanish version.(17 hours, December, 19, 2020.)

Average: 4.2 Votes(100)

Technical death metal band born in Bogotá, Colombia. Constituted on a complete musical formation that can be reflected in the complexity of its compositions and the capacity to transmit a complex development in the music. Rapidly venturing into the local scene, hoping to position itself as an elite band of technical death m... (Keep reading...)

#20 Threshold End

threshold end Bandas Colombianas
Death Metal, Bogota.
Label: Godeater Records
Spanish version.(10 hours, September, 18, 2021.)

Average: 3.9 Votes(99)

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#21 Internal Suffering

internal suffering Bandas Colombianas
Death Metal, Pereira.
Label: New Standard Elite
Spanish version.(07 hours, March, 28, 2022.)

Average: 4.2 Votes(99)

Internal Suffering was formed in 1996, since then the band has been known throughout the world for its intense, brutal and rapid technical brand of Death Metal, releasing 4 full-length albums to date: Internal Suffering Discograph... (Keep reading...)

Concerts: INTERNAL SUFFERING in Armenia Grind Humanity in Armenia.

#22 Tenebrarum

tenebrarum Bandas Colombianas
Metal, Medellín.
Label: Voodoo Records
Spanish version.(11 hours, April, 21, 2020.)

Average: 4.2 Votes(98)

Tenebrarum is a colombian band of focused on the Rock and Gothic Metal created in the year of 1990 by David Rivera.... (Keep reading...)

#23 Mistyfate

mistyfate Bandas Colombianas
Melodic Death Metal, Cali.
Label: Decade Records
Spanish version.(17 hours, August, 18, 2020.)

Average: 4.1 Votes(97)

MistyFate means Uncertain Destiny which is the path that takes man to find its own destruction. MistyFate had its first concert with a band called Masacre which was a complete success. At the end of 1997 MistyFate released their first Promotional CD under the name... (Keep reading...)

#24 Witchtrap

witchtrap Bandas Colombianas
Black, Thrash Metal, Medellin.
Label: Hells Headbangers Records
Spanish version.(10 hours, September, 18, 2021.)

Average: 4.2 Votes(92)

Formed in Medellin in the nineties by Witchhammer (drums)... (Keep reading...)

#25 Tears Of Misery

tears of misery Bandas Colombianas
Death Metal, Bogotá.
Label: Independiente
Spanish version.(20 hours, October, 29, 2024.)

Average: 4.1 Votes(92)

Tears Of Misery (Colombian band) has its beginnings in the 2000 where through gender Thrash Metal and under the name of Lagrimas de Miseria are made known. In 2002 the band is looking for a different sound focused on the ... (Keep reading...)

#26 Bonestorm

bonestorm Bandas Colombianas
Death Metal, Bucaramanga.
Label: Headless Cross Records
Spanish version.(20 hours, September, 16, 2024.)

Average: 4.3 Votes(91)

Bonestorm is one of the death metal bands from Bucaramanga. A musical proposal led from the beginning by Carlos Jácome L. in which the main idea was extreme metal, a project in which many elements of classic and contemporary deat... (Keep reading...)

#29 Suppuration

suppuration Bandas Colombianas
Brutal Death Metal, Bogota.
Label: Brutalized Records
Spanish version.(09 hours, April, 02, 2020.)

Average: 4.0 Votes(84)

Suppuration started in 1997 playing Death/Gore in the traditional style releasing a demo called Suppuration, just like the band would be called later. After this, Suppuration wanted to do something more brutal and heavier and we started to write something stronger and heavier so we decided to play more grind-gore. In 2000 the ba... (Keep reading...)

Concerts: SUPPURATION in Armenia Grind Humanity in Armenia.

#30 Koyi K Utho

koyi k utho Bandas Colombianas
Industrial Metal, Bogotá.
Label: Emi Music
Spanish version.(07 hours, May, 05, 2021.)

Average: 4.1 Votes(79)

Koyi K Utho , pilot’s name of the animated series Mazinger Z . This band focused from the beginning on experimenting in the industrial sound in its different facets, but focusing a bit more on the cyber core or industrial metal , all this with the help of a visual art in all its ex... (Keep reading...)

Concerts: KOYI K UTHO in Brutal Fest in Bogota.

#31 Cromlech

cromlech Bandas Colombianas
Death Metal, Medellín.
Label: Stereomatik
Spanish version.(10 hours, September, 18, 2021.)

Average: 4.2 Votes(79)

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#32 Nameless

nameless Bandas Colombianas
Death Doom, Cali.
Label: Demonic War Cult Productions
Spanish version.(10 hours, September, 18, 2021.)

Average: 4.3 Votes(78)

In 1992 four people met in Santiago de Cali, Colombia, to worship the Death Metal. Samir and Diego (guitars), Julián (drums), and Miguel (vocals), converge musically and shape what would become known today as the Colombian band Nameless. A new type of Death metal that is reflected in the demo-essay The Open Gore (... (Keep reading...)

#33 Nonsense Premonition

nonsense premonition Bandas Colombianas
Technical Brutal Death Metal , Bogota.
Label: Independiente
Spanish version.(09 hours, July, 15, 2020.)

Average: 4.2 Votes(77)

Nonsense Premonition ( NsP ) arises at the beginning of 2004 at the initiative of Camilo Garci­a (bass) and David Jacome ( vocals ), mainly influenced... (Keep reading...)

#34 Nihil Obstat

nihil obstat Bandas Colombianas
Brutal Death Metal, Palmira.
Label: Gormageddon Productions
Spanish version.(21 hours, October, 23, 2024.)

Average: 4.2 Votes(74)

NIHIL OBSTAT starts by the end of 1999 in Palmira - Valle del Cauca (Colombia), consisted initially of Luis Fernando Castillo on drums,Andrés Felipe Bonilla on vocals,Andrés Camacho on bass, Germán ?Mancho? Ramirez and David Santos on guitars. By the end of 2000 relays are made on bass by Dario Seba and Germán Orejuela on d... (Keep reading...)

#36 The Scum

the scum Bandas Colombianas
Death Metal, Manizales.
Label: Brutalized Records
Spanish version.(18 hours, September, 20, 2024.)

Average: 4.1 Votes(66)

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#37 Purulent

purulent Bandas Colombianas
Brutal Death Metal, Grindcore, Bogota.
Label: Mutilated Records
Spanish version.(08 hours, February, 19, 2021.)

Average: 4.1 Votes(65)

Purulent began in 95 with members of a death band called Mortem , looking for a different and more extreme music than what was shown at that time in the Colombian metal underground scene. The formation was led by David Rairan , guitar and cho... (Keep reading...)

Concerts: PURULENT in Armenia Grind Humanity in Armenia.

#38 Athanator

athanator Bandas Colombianas
Thrash Metal, Medellin.
Label: Lixo Sonido Discos
Spanish version.(09 hours, April, 02, 2020.)

Average: 4.1 Votes(65)

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#40 Agony

agony Bandas Colombianas
Thrash Metal, Los Angeles, California.
Label: Cinismo Records
Spanish version.(09 hours, April, 02, 2020.)

Average: 4.4 Votes(64)

The spirit of Latin American metal is felt across the globe, and each area has spawned its own identity within an already groundbreaking subgenre. But after two decades of existence, AGONY is ready to keep their death-thrash brand of metal assault alive. AGONY burst out of the Colombian metal scene in 1992, when then-college ... (Keep reading...)

#41 Leishmaniasis

leishmaniasis Bandas Colombianas
Death Metal, Grindcore, Bogota.
Label: Revolution Records
Spanish version.(10 hours, June, 09, 2020.)

Average: 4.2 Votes(57)

Brutal death metal band formed in the early 90’s; pioneers of the gore genre in Colombia. Their debut album NECROCANIBALISMO recorded in 1997 under REVOLUTION Rec; showed a very aggressive grind death gore with extreme pathological lyrics in Spanish and a big amount of blood and guts. After performing in ROCK... (Keep reading...)

#42 Mindly Rotten

mindly rotten Bandas Colombianas
Technical Brutal Death Metal, Armenia, Quindio.
Label: Coyote Records
Spanish version.(09 hours, June, 24, 2020.)

Average: 4.2 Votes(56)

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#43 Ursus

ursus Bandas Colombianas
Speed Metal, Bogota.
Label: PURE STEEL RECORDS Www.puresteel-records.com
Spanish version.(10 hours, September, 18, 2021.)

Average: 4.0 Votes(52)

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#44 Acutor

acutor Bandas Colombianas
Thrash Metal, Bogotá.
Label: Viuda Negra Music
Spanish version.(19 hours, September, 16, 2024.)

Average: 3.9 Votes(50)

The creators of Dios Ha Muerto (God is Dead) with lyrics of songs like Brutal Existence and Death in Life return in 2019.... (Keep reading...)

#45 Soulburner

soulburner Bandas Colombianas
Death Metal, Bogota.
Label: Soulburner
Spanish version.(08 hours, July, 19, 2023.)

Average: 4.5 Votes(49)

Soulburner is a band that was created in 1998 under the name of Ritual , by Ricardo González and Bernardo García . The first live appearance of this band was at the end of 1998 in Bogotá, next to the bands Leishmaniasis, ... (Keep reading...)

Concerts: SOULBURNER in Brutal Fest in Bogota.

#47 Antheology

antheology Bandas Colombianas
Death Metal, Barranquilla.
Label: Independiente
Spanish version.(19 hours, April, 09, 2023.)

Average: 4.3 Votes(16)

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#48 Swamptales

swamptales Bandas Colombianas
Old School Death Metal, Bogota.
Label: Independiente
Spanish version.(10 hours, September, 17, 2024.)

Average: 3.6 Votes(8)

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#49 Imperial Doom

imperial doom Bandas Colombianas
Doom, Death Metal, Bogota.
Label: Independiente
Spanish version.(10 hours, October, 23, 2024.)

Average: 4.2 Votes(6)

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#50 Craneo

craneo Bandas Colombianas
Death Metal, Medellin.
Label: Independiente
Spanish version.(20 hours, September, 24, 2024.)

Average: 5.0 Votes(3)

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