If you’re a follower of modern death metal and don’t know about Crypta, you’re doing it wrong. Co-founded by former Nervosa singer/bassist Fernanda Lira in 2019, the Brazilian quartet have quickly ...

Life on tour isn’t all it’s cracked up to be sometimes, as Fernanda Lira, the singer for Brazilian death metal band Crypta, can attest. On Tuesday, an elevator issue left Lira and drummer Luana ...

The current members of Crypta are Jéssica di Falchi, Fernanda Lira, Luana Dametto and Tainá Bergamaschi, left to right. Credit: Estevam Romera Since coming together in 2019 as an offshoot from ...

Fernanda Lira, bassist and vocalist of Crypta, an all-women Brazilian death metal band, is redefining what it means to be metal. “Those of us who are nonconformists are trying to get back to what ...