Maca Buritica was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and moved to Florida when she was 10. There, she learned how to play guitar at age 15 and was involved in several left-wing punk bands. After years spent singing about animal rights and women’s liberation down South, she moved to New York City in 2014, picked up a bass and joined the Queens black metal band Nite Rite as a bassist in 2017.

The band’s music is heavily atmospheric, melodic and monochromatic, with occult overtones (audience members can expect to “behold death, darkness, chaos and the void” at a typical show) and a frosty Scandinavian mien that belies its progenitors’ South American origin.

Latinx clubs and shows booked by Latinx metal promoters are more likely to draw a Latinx crowd, Ms. Buritica said, but the music itself comes before any linguistic or cultural considerations. “Metal is definitely a universal language,” she said. “We personally sing in English with some songs in Spanish. However, our fluency in Spanish allows us to greatly connect to the Latinx metal scene.”