The Band
Four people behind the descent.
Decessus is a Chilean progressive death metal band, formed in Santiago in 2020. Its name comes from Latin and means “descent” or “fall” — the existential, shadowed tone that runs through everything they make.
What began as a university project rose fast through the underground for its technical craft and, above all, for the magnetic contrast between its vocalist’s elegant image and the brutality of her guttural voice on stage.
Led by Ignacia Fernández, the band turns death metal into a vehicle for what most prefer to silence: the climate crisis, animal cruelty and mental health. Beauty and brutality in the same breath.
Lineup
Vocals · founder
Ignacia Fernández
Founder and voice of Decessus. Her signature is contrast: an elegant image that erupts into a brutal guttural on stage.
Crowned Miss World Chile 2025, she performed death metal at the pageant and went viral; praised by the likes of Mon Laferte and Amy Lee. With the band she made history headlining the first-ever metal show at Chile's Premios Pulsar.
Trajectory
- 2020
Decessus is born in Santiago. First single: “Deliverance”.
- 2024
Opening for Epica in Santiago. Debut headline show at MiBar (Nov 20).
- 2025
Opening for Insomnium and Jinjer. Beer Metal Open Air with Sodom. Touring Finland and Germany.
- 2025
Ignacia Fernández is crowned Miss World Chile and performs death metal at the pageant.
Themes
Climate crisis
Razed forests, skies of smoke, machines that never stop. “Dark Flames” is the portrait of an earth set ablaze by our own hand.
Animal cruelty
The top-hatted vulture that represents us is both carrion and witness. We speak for the species with no voice in the room where their extinction is decided.
Mental health
“The Hollow Descent” is the fall inward. Extreme metal as a safe place to name anguish instead of hiding it.