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| 2 | Primary Stylistic Influences: |
| 3 | + ThrashMetal, TraditionalHeavyMetal, BluesRock |
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| 6 | Secondary Stylistic Influences: |
| 7 | + DeathMetal, {{Blues}}, HardRock, SludgeMetal, DoomMetal |
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| 9 | |
| 10 | '''Groove metal''' is, naturally, a SubGenre of HeavyMetal. Considered either an evolution of ThrashMetal or a return to metal's [[RevisitingTheRoots 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. Groove metal is usually ([[SubvertedTrope but not always]]) slower than thrash. |
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| 12 | 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, Phil Anselmo very nearly joined Exhorder at one point, and Exhorder credited Pantera with making far better choices as a band and putting in way more effort than they ever did.]][[/note]] |
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| 14 | Groove metal was most popular in the early nineties, after which it got replaced by NuMetal, which itself occasinally took influences from Groove Metal (some bands more than others). Several Groove Metal bands have extensive {{Metalcore}} elements, a couple examples being Music/LambOfGod and Shadows Fall. Groove Metal also tends to take elements from DeathMetal, particularly Music/MorbidAngel and Music/{{Obituary}}. |
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| 16 | '''Do not''' confuse the genre with FunkMetal, which is a sub-genre of AlternativeMetal that focuses on bass playing and rhythm. The two genres, however, occasionally overlap, such as in the case of Soulfly. Due to its roots in ThrashMetal, groove metal is occasionally referred to as Post-Thrash. Also see {{Djent}}, a polyrythmic offshoot of groove metal. |
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| 18 | |
| 19 | !! Bands typically considered to be groove metal include: |
| 20 | |
| 21 | [[index]] |
| 22 | * Music/{{Alluvial}} (''Sarcoma'', also progressive death metal) |
| 23 | * 4Arm (also thrash) |
| 24 | * Music/{{AxeWound}} |
| 25 | * Music/BodyCount (started incorporating this as of ''Manslaughter''; primarily thrash/rap metal) |
| 26 | * Music/{{Brujeria}} (mixed with DeathMetal and {{Grindcore}}; started off as primarily the latter two before incorporating groove metal elements on ''Raza odiada'') |
| 27 | * Music/{{Byzantine}} |
| 28 | * Music/CavaleraConspiracy (along with death/thrash) |
| 29 | * Music/{{Chimaira}} (along with {{Metalcore}}, early material was nu metal) |
| 30 | * Music/{{Damageplan}} (formed from the ashes of Music/{{Pantera}}) |
| 31 | * Music/{{Decapitated}} (as of ''Blood Mantra''; mixed with TechnicalDeathMetal) |
| 32 | * Music/{{Deftones}} (Usually considered Experimental or AlternativeMetal, but starting with Diamond Eyes, this became a core part of their sound.) |
| 33 | * Music/DemonHunter (also AlternativeMetal and {{Metalcore}}) |
| 34 | * Music/TheDevastated (also deathcore) |
| 35 | * Music/{{DevilDriver}} (also MelodicDeathMetal) |
| 36 | * ‘’Music/{{Dharmata}}'' (Mixed with new metal and some vaguely {{deathcore}}ish riffs) |
| 37 | * Music/DirgeWithin |
| 38 | * Music/{{Disciple}} (mainly their early material, but some of their later material still falls under the genre) |
| 39 | * Music/DivineHeresy (along with {{Metalcore}}, also has {{Deathcore}} elements here and there) |
| 40 | * Music/{{Down}} (one of Phil Anselmo's [[AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder Many]] bands) |
| 41 | * Music/{{Dyscarnate}} (''With All Their Might'', also death metal) |
| 42 | * Music/{{DVSR}} (also {{Djent}} and RapMetal) |
| 43 | * Music/{{Ektomorf}} (considered by many to be the SpiritualSuccessor to Music/{{Sepultura}}) |
| 44 | * Music/{{Exhorder}} (usually considered the TropeMaker, but they were an aggressive, death metal-tinged thrash group on ''Slaughter in the Vatican'' and didn't assume a groovy sound until ''The Law'', which hit the market around two years after ''Cowboys from Hell'') |
| 45 | * Music/FaceDown (mixed with DeathMetal; best-known as The Haunted singer Marco Aro's old band) |
| 46 | * Music/FearFactory (mixed with IndustrialMetal, DeathMetal, AlternativeMetal, ThrashMetal, and even a little bit of NuMetal) |
| 47 | * Music/FitForAnAutopsy (''Absolute Hope Absolute Hell'', mixed with deathcore) |
| 48 | * Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch (Also AlternativeMetal) |
| 49 | * Music/{{Forbidden|Band}} (''Distortion'' and ''Green'', mixed with ProgressiveMetal) |
| 50 | * Music/{{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) |
| 51 | * Music/{{Gojira|Band}} (also DeathMetal, TechnicalDeathMetal, ProgressiveMetal) |
| 52 | * [[Music/GripInc Grip Inc.]] |
| 53 | * Music/{{Hacktivist}} (primarily a combination of {{Djent}} and HipHop, but the influence is felt) |
| 54 | * [[Music/HajisKitchen Haji's Kitchen]] (also ProgressiveMetal, and Grunge for their early material) |
| 55 | * Music/{{Hatesphere}} (also some elements of MelodicDeathMetal) |
| 56 | * Music/TheHaunted (along with MelodicDeathMetal) |
| 57 | * Music/{{Hellyeah}} |
| 58 | * Music/{{Jinjer}} (often mixed in with NuMetal, {{Metalcore}}, and ProgressiveMetal) |
| 59 | * Music/{{Kataklysm}} (''Unconquered'' onward, though they experimented with it several times before; also MelodicDeathMetal) |
| 60 | * Konkhra (also DeathMetal, though ''Come Down Cold'' is a completely straight example of the style) |
| 61 | * Music/{{Kittie}} (latter-day material, mixed with GothicMetal) |
| 62 | * Music/LambOfGod ([[DeathMetal death]][[{{Grindcore}} grind]] early on. Became groove metal since ''As the Palaces Burn'') |
| 63 | * Music/TheLastTenSecondsOfLife (also {{Deathcore}} and NuMetal) |
| 64 | * [[Music/LazarusAD Lazarus A.D.]] (mixed with ThrashMetal) |
| 65 | * Music/ALifeOnceLost |
| 66 | * Living Wreckage (side project of members of Shadows Fall, Anthrax, and Death Ray Vision) |
| 67 | * Music/MachineHead (mixed with ThrashMetal, and with NuMetal on a couple of their albums; became slightly more thrash than groove from ''The Blackening'' onwards) |
| 68 | * Music/{{Massacre}} (on ''Promise'', which was....a [[OldShame bad move]]) |
| 69 | * Music/{{Meshuggah}} (also considered {{Djent}}) |
| 70 | * Music/{{Mnemic}} (also IndustrialMetal and NuMetal) |
| 71 | * Music/{{Mortification}} (on ''Blood World'' and ''Primitive Rhythm Machine'', though they occasionally dabbled in it afterwards) |
| 72 | * Music/{{Nonpoint}} (later) |
| 73 | * Music/{{Obituary}} (''World Demise'' along with DeathMetal, also ''extremely'' influential to the genre as a whole despite largely not being a full-fledged example) |
| 74 | * Music/TheOffering (also PowerMetal) |
| 75 | * Music/{{Oni}} (some prog and djent elements) |
| 76 | * Music/{{Overkill}} (everything from ''I Hear Black'' to ''Immortalis'', with thrash starting to creep back in circa ''Bloodletting'') |
| 77 | * Music/{{Pantera}} (TropeCodifier or TropeMaker.) |
| 78 | * Music/APerfectMurder |
| 79 | * Music/PissingRazors |
| 80 | * Music/Powerman5000 (also IndustrialMetal) |
| 81 | * Music/ProductOfHate |
| 82 | * [[Music/ProPain Pro-Pain]] |
| 83 | * ''Music/{{Prong}}'' (Also IndustrialMetal) |
| 84 | * Music/TheResistance (mixes this and old-school DeathMetal) |
| 85 | * Music/{{Sepultura}} (from ''Chaos A.D.'' on) |
| 86 | ** ''Music/Roots1996'' |
| 87 | * Music/ShadowsFall (mixed with ThrashMetal and {{Metalcore}}) |
| 88 | * Music/TheShowdown (recent material; mixed with Thrash and southern metal, with a distinct DeathMetal bent) |
| 89 | * Music/{{Slipknot}}, (''Subliminal Verses'' onward, though it was always an influence) |
| 90 | ** Creator/CoreyTaylor |
| 91 | *** 2001 - ''Music/{{Iowa}}'' |
| 92 | *** 2004 - ''Music/Vol3TheSubliminalVerses'' |
| 93 | *** 2008 - ''Music/AllHopeIsGone'' |
| 94 | *** 2014 - ''Music/PointFiveTheGrayChapter'' |
| 95 | * Music/{{Soulfly}} (mixed with NuMetal on the early albums, and ThrashMetal / DeathMetal in their later albums) |
| 96 | * Music/SuicideSilence (between ''No Time to Bleed'' and ''You Can't Stop Me'', also deathcore and nu metal) |
| 97 | * Music/{{Superheist}} (more pronounced on their earlier records, especially those with Berger [=McLeod=] on vocals) |
| 98 | * Music/SuperjointRitual ([[RunningGag another]] Phil Anselmo Project) |
| 99 | * Music/SvartCrown (''Wolves Among the Ashes'', mixed with dissonant death metal) |
| 100 | * Music/{{Testament}} (on ''Low'' and ''Demonic'', mixed with and usually otherwise ThrashMetal) |
| 101 | * Uncured (also some melodic death metal and technical death metal elements) |
| 102 | * Music/UponABurningBody (also {{Deathcore}} and NuMetal) |
| 103 | * Music/{{Volbeat}} (mixed with rockabilly) |
| 104 | * Music/WestfieldMassacre (also melodic metalcore) |
| 105 | * Music/WhitechapelBand (self-titled onward, along with deathcore; also started mixing in NuMetal around that time as well) |
| 106 | * [[Music/RobZombie White Zombie]] (''La Sexorcisto'' onwards, mixed with IndustrialMetal) |
| 107 | [[/index]] |
| 108 | |
| 109 | !!The groove metal genre contains the following tropes: |
| 110 | |
| 111 | * CarefulWithThatAxe - It is fairly common in groove metal for vocalists to suddenly scream at random parts of a song. Music/{{Pantera}} were rather well-known for making liberal use of the style, most notably in "The Great Southern Trendkill" (only with the help of Seth Putnam of Anal Cunt, however) and "Fucking Hostile". |
| 112 | * 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, and it isn't helped by how the genre seems to be moving in many different directions ''all at once'', with some bands favoring a post-thrash sound with "machine gun" power riffs and greater emphasis on rhythmic grooves, others favoring the bluesy style with string bending and country-esque noodle leads, and the odd prog-sounding band that isn't technical enough to be prog but has the downtuned guitars and "rubber riffs" commonly heard from groove metal bands. |
| 113 | * GenreBusting[=/=]GenreRoulette - Groove metal is fairly notable for the ease of fusing it with other heavy metal styles such as ProgressiveMetal, PowerMetal, ThrashMetal, DeathMetal and NuMetal. Consequently, it has become common practice among groove metal bands to produce material that showcase seemingly disparate heavy metal stylings, as such with the case of Music/{{Meshuggah}} (produced TechnicalDeathMetal alongside their usual groove songs) and Music/{{Nevermore}} (overlaps with PowerMetal and ProgressiveMetal). |
| 114 | * GenreShift - Several bands have either shifted towards groove metal (Pantera, Sepultura, Fear Factory) or turned from groove metal to something else (Machine Head to nu-metal, though they eventually went back into groove metal). |
| 115 | * HarshVocals - Grunts, rasps, and growls are very common in groove metal. |
| 116 | * 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 or libertarian values. |
| 117 | * SopranoAndGravel - A few one-man variants, including Fear Factory and Machine Head. |
| 118 | * TropeCodifier - If you regard Exhorder as the TropeMaker, then Pantera is probably the TropeCodifier. If you regard Pantera as a TropeMaker, then the TropeCodifier is open to debate, though Machine Head and Sepultura are the most likely candidates. |
| 119 | * TropeMaker - Either Exhorder or Pantera. Or both. |
| 120 | * UrExample - Pantera's ''Cowboys from Hell'' for groove metal in general. |
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