History Main / GrooveMetal

* Music/{{Kataklysm}} (''Unconquered'' onward, though they had experimented with it several times before; also MelodicDeathMetal)

* Music/{{Kataklysm}} (''Unconquered'' onward, also MelodicDeathMetal)

+ DeathMetal, {{Funk}}, HardRock, SludgeMetal, DoomMetal

+ DeathMetal, CrossoverThrash, HardRock, SludgeMetal, DoomMetal

'''Groove metal''' is, naturally, a subgenre of HeavyMetal. Considered either an evolution of ThrashMetal or a return to metal's blues-rock roots, groove metal is characterised by bluesy, slow-to-mid-tempo guitar riffs and HarshVocals. It's a very obscure genre name, but the bands from the genre are not.

* Music/{{Brujeria}}

* RatedMForManly - A lot of groove metal bands, primarily US-based ones, associate their music and lyrical themes with a tough, no-nonsense masculine aesthetic, and the genre as a whole is popular with white, working-class American men who adhere to fairly traditional values.

* DeadUnicornTrope - Groove metal is a rather ill-defined genre; no one's really sure if it is a spin-off of thrash metal or a more "bluesy" variant of metal, or something entirely different. While musical characteristics such as slow-to-mid-tempo riffs, bluesy noodling, string bending, gravelly vocals and tough-guy lyrical themes are often used, there are so many exceptions that fans often argue about some bands that do not fall into the usual stereotypes.

+ DeathMetal, CrossoverThrash, HardRock, SludgeMetal

First of all, who played groove metal first? Let's not get into that. Mentioning Pantera, Exhorder and "stole from" in the same sentence is guaranteed to cause a massive FlameWar, so let's not have discussions about who stole from whom. [[note]][[{{Irony}} The members of Pantera and Exhorder are friends. Both parties think that the debate is stupid and pointless, and Exhorder credited Pantera with making far better choices as a band and putting in way more effort than they ever did.]][[/note]]

* DeadUnicornTrope - Groove metal is a rather ill-defined genre; no one's really sure if it is a spin-off of thrash metal or a more "bluesy" variant of metal, or something entirely different. While musical characteristics such as slow-to-mid-tempo riffs, bluesy noodling, string bending and gravelly vocals are often used, there are so many exceptions that fans often argue about some bands that do not fall into the usual stereotypes.

* Music/TheResistance

* Music/{,Alluvial}} (''Sarcoma'', also progressive death metal)

* Alluvial (''Sarcoma'', also progressive death metal)
* [=4Arm=] (also thrash)

* Music/{{Deftones}} (Usually considered Experimental or Alternative Metal, but starting with Diamond Eyes, this became a core part of their sound.)

* The Devastated (also deathcore)

* ''Dharmata'' (Mixed with new metal and some vaguely {{deathcore}}ish riffs)

* Dyscarnate (''With All Their Might'', also death metal)

* Gloom (GenreBusting example that mixes elements of this, death metal, black metal, sludge metal, and technical death metal, but this is ''probably'' the closest thing to an actual classifiable genre)

* Hatesphere (also some elements of MelodicDeathMetal)

* A Life Once Lost

* The Offering (also PowerMetal)
* Oni (some prog and djent elements)

* Music/{{Powerman 5000}} (also IndustrialMetal)
* Product of Hate

* ''Prong'' (Also IndustrialMetal)

* Svart Crown (''Wolves Among the Ashes'', mixed with dissonant death metal)

* Upon a Burning Body (also {{Deathcore}} and NuMetal)

* Westfield Massacre (also melodic metalcore)

+ ThrashMetal, Traditional HeavyMetal, BluesRock

+ DeathMetal, CrossoverThrash, HardRock, Sludge Metal

* Music/CavaleraConspiracy

* The Last Ten Seconds of Life (also {{Deathcore}} and NuMetal)

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness - usually an 8 or 9, but a step up (e.g. Pantera -- "Suicide Note Pt. II", a 10-11) or down (most of Hacktivist's stuff, a 6-7) on the scale isn't unheard of.
** The hardest bands in the genre are Music/LambOfGod, Meshuggah, Music/FearFactory and Chimaira.

First of all, who played groove metal first? Let's not get into that. Mentioning Pantera, Exhorder and "stole from" in the same sentence is guaranteed to cause InternetBackdraft, so let's not have discussions about who stole from whom. [[note]][[{{Irony}} The members of Pantera and Exhorder are friends. Both parties think that the debate is stupid and pointless, and Exhorder credited Pantera with making far better choices as a band and putting in way more effort than they ever did.]][[/note]]

* Music/{{Volbeat}}

* Music/{{Mnemic}}

* The Offering

* Music/FaceDown (mixed with DeathMetal; best-known as The Haunted singer Marco Ari's old band)

First of all, who played groove metal first? Let's not get into that. Mentioning Pantera, Exhorder and "stole from" in the same sentence is guaranteed to cause InternetBackdraft, so let's not have discussions about who stole from whom. [[note]][[{{Irony}} The members of Pantera and Exhorder are friends. Both parties think that the debate is stupid and pointless.]][[/note]]