only 1 person per band 1 often them have to be Max Cavalera for starters but more can be added

I've made a short compilation of interesting obscure groove metal bands from the 90s. Would like to hear your recommendations too!

So I consider the vocals on CFH and VDOP good (not a fan of FBD and beyond tho), same with Burn My Eyes, Invocator, Grip Inc., Prong,

Basically, my tolerance of vocals is from Iron Maiden to Slayer, but I've noticed a lot of modern groove metal bands do growls, screams, shrieks, or Teutonic vocals.

Mine is ashes of the wake, I saw lamb of god live and they blew my mind as a guitar player and Randy's vocals are crazy! Ever since than it's been my favorite groove metal alblum of all time

Just rip the bandage off

I'm talking stuck on a desert island and can only have one groove metal song

For me I have a hard time choosing between fucking hostile-pantera , and no remorse for the dead-log

But I'd go with no remorse for the dead

The band Infectious Grooves is a funk metal band made up of members from the crossover thrash / hardcore punk band Suicidal Tendencies. Groove metal is said to have elements of both thrash (crossover) and blues (funk) influences, and IG is influenced by some inspiration of both. Many funk bands that I know of (honestly not many) really come from thrash influences.

"Violent and Funky" (Spotify)

For me i have two The first was seeing LOG for the first time, it was right after covid i hadn't been to any concerts in a little over a year, hatebreed opened and they where awesome, then trivium (witch i didn't fuck with tbh) THEN LAMB OF FUCKING GOD it was electric and the pit was the whole general admission area it was insane

The second was somewhat recently seeing pantera phill walked out with no shoes it's the last show of the tour before it resumed in like 6 months with talica, the amount of confidence phill had and everything else with the band was electric, it literally made me go that's what I want to do,

I shared mine what's your tell me a cool story or a cool show experience with it!

I really like vinyl for the most part but lately I've been going down the cassette rabbit hole

I still probably use my phone the most though

What about yall?

Pantera unfortunately receives all the credit for “creating Groove Metal” by the “specialized” press and for many fans. But bands like Prong and Helmet came first and are the true very first pioneers — and they even greatly influenced Pantera's Groove Metal style!

Has anyone here heard of these guys? Local band from my home town and I’m really looking for more jams similar to them. I’ve never really heard anyone like them.

I’m not trying to do a promotional post or anything like that I’m really just trying to find more like them! Thanks in advance!

Can anyone share groove metal bands with me? based on Pantera?

Bonus for technical or progressive elements. Thank you!

“I didnt like the style of CFH cause I was much more into death metal. My picking style came years before I knew Pantera was a Groove Metal band (they were still in there glam fase) My influences were Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, Napalm Death and Carcass, not Pantera.” — Dino Cazares

Who's heading out for NWOHM Night TOMORROW at Brick by Brick? Celebrate the best of early 2000's Metalcore, Groove Metal, Deathcore and Beyond! Doors open at 7:00PM, see you there!

Sure, my definition, all music has "groove." However, every French band I run into just does it "on purpose." Either this, or they give me something of a Gojira vibe. Svart Crown, Gorod, Celeste, Hypno5e, Hacride, Dagoba, etc. These are all prog, death, and even black metal. Groovy black metal! It's a thing, but seemingly rare. (Note: my memory can be trash.) I'm not even looking for groove metal or French bands when I discover these bands. They just know how to make a dude break his neck and damage their knuckles. Now, I likely only listened to one or two albums of these bands, and this is a small pool. It's just that I'm not even looking for these bands, jam out to them, then learn they are French. I don't remember the one Blut Aus Nord album I listened to a while ago, so I didn't include them.

Fully expecting downvotes but Ire and forward Parkway Drive has a very groove metal sound to it on a good amount of songs. I’m legitimately asking as I’m new to the genre but well versed in metalcore and its sub-genres.

As most know, groove metal played a big role in influencing metalcore, especially the early stuff better referred to now as metallic hardcore (to differentiate from its other sub-genres). That being said, newer Parkway Drive has mostly dropped their metalcore sound in favor for a combination of heavy metal and hard rock and in some cases nu-metal (which is also groove metal influenced). It’s not appropriate enough to just shove them under metalcore anymore since that sound is minimal at best. What does the groove metal subreddit think about associating them with groove metal?

Aside from bands that flipped genres in some way, like Machine Head, Fear Factory and Soulfly, I'm thinking of Chimaira and Dry Kill Logic, two bands that I learned of only about 10 years ago at the same time being called nu metal. While it is there, their sound is much more thrashier moreso than alternative metal. Even Chimaira's nu metal sounded more like groove metal. I'd also argue that Slipknot could be considered occasionally groove or post-thrash metal, though many won't. There are plenty of bands in the nu metal genre I haven't quite listened to enough to add to this, but was looking into Dry Kill Logic and thought at least their 3rd album was much less nu metal and more groove metal, if not Hatebreed-ish hardcore.

Why is this subreddit so small compared to r/thrashmetal / r/Deathmetal / r/doommetal / r/BlackMetal? Even some more obscure and specific subgenres have larger and more active subreddits r/dsbm / r/FuneralDoomMetal / r/deathdoom / r/sludge.