Yetna Apmaskema - Ancestral Manifest of Evil Poison (2014)

  Usually it's easy to identify South American black metal bands, cause if they don't involve death metal influences into their music, or if they're not playing war metal, the reduced role of atmospheric sound (better sound quality) makes them distinguishable enough. Some might even announce (those who are into the style because of the softening side effect of the strong atmospheric sound) that it's a way different direction from Northern influenced black metal.
   The fact that Yetna Apmaskema by their so far one and only full-length album didn't even try to follow ordinary black metal imagery, could make the whole thing even more convincing. But a statement like this couldn't be more wrong. Even if the garnishing doesn't reflect the most evident features of Northern black, the themes definitely does. References of the biggest names of the Norwegian scene could be found in the guitar themes and even in the atmospheric effects, like Mayhem, Burzum and Darkthrone for instance. The band's better sound quality based approach had advantageous effect by highlighting their music's intensity. Melancholic slow downs are frequent and creating enjoyable dynamics with the intense themes. Musical diversity could be another reason why this album couldn't count as ordinary. In total "Ancestral Manifest of Evil Poison" is quite a Norwegian influenced black metal record, but it's also better highlighting the effectiveness of the extreme intensity that also became one of the trademarks of the genre. 

Master of Cruelty - Spit on the Holy Grail (2012)

   If it's about the revival of the old school tendencies of the South American scene, Master of Cruelty had quite effective endeavor by their debut. 
   The way how they mixed thrash, black of death metal, resulted a unified sound that completely blurs the borders between style features. And the lyrical concept is also like the fusion of the three basic genres. This, combined with their exaggerated approach reflects well the overwhelming feeling of an era that have been passed since a while. At one hand "Spit on the Holy Grail" sounds quite nostalgic, and it might be possible to believe that it's a somehow disappeared and long forgotten classic from the early '90s. But it also sounds like a missing link between the old school styles and war metal. The album didn't reach such intensity, since they preferred to return frequently to thrashing and ordinary blackened themes. Still, there are plenty of analogies to find with war metal bands, and from this point the extremely noisy tendencies aren't so far either. In gerenral the album suspects a lot of potencial about the band, and also opened various possibilities how to continue in the future. Also it might be compatible with a wide audience of extreme metal fans.