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Groove Metal

 Groove Metal
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Groove Metal
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Primary Stylistic Influences:
Thrash Metal, Traditional Heavy Metal, Blues Rock


Secondary Stylistic Influences:
Death Metal, Blues, Hard Rock, Sludge Metal, Doom Metal

Groove metal is, naturally, a Sub-Genre of Heavy Metal. Considered either an evolution of Thrash Metal or a return to metal's blues-rock roots, groove metal is characterised by bluesy, slow-to-mid-tempo guitar riffs and Harsh Vocals. It's a very obscure genre name, but the bands from the genre are not. Groove metal is usually (but not always) slower than thrash.
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 Flame War, so let's not have discussions about who stole from whom. note  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.
Groove metal was most popular in the early nineties, after which it got replaced by Nu Metal, 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 Lamb of God and Shadows Fall. Groove Metal also tends to take elements from Death Metal, particularly Morbid Angel and Obituary.
Do not confuse the genre with Funk Metal, which is a sub-genre of Alternative Metal 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 Thrash Metal, groove metal is occasionally referred to as Post-Thrash. Also see Djent, a polyrythmic offshoot of groove metal.
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Groove Metal
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Disciple (mainly their early material, but some of their later material still falls under the genre)
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Groove Metal
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Massacre (on Promise, which was....a bad move)
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Groove Metal
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Five Finger Death Punch (Also Alternative Metal)
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Groove Metal
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Roots (1996)
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Groove Metal
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2004 - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
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2008 - All Hope Is Gone
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Volbeat (mixed with rockabilly)
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Groove Metal
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Fit for an Autopsy (Absolute Hope Absolute Hell, mixed with deathcore)
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Groove Metal
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Kataklysm (Unconquered onward, though they experimented with it several times before; also Melodic Death Metal)
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Powerman 5000 (also Industrial Metal)
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Groove Metal
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Machine Head (mixed with Thrash Metal, and with Nu Metal on a couple of their albums; became slightly more thrash than groove from The Blackening onwards)
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Whitechapel (Band) (self-titled onward, along with deathcore; also started mixing in Nu Metal around that time as well)
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Groove Metal
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Gojira (also Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal)
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Groove Metal
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Shadows Fall (mixed with Thrash Metal and Metalcore)
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Mortification (on Blood World and Primitive Rhythm Machine, though they occasionally dabbled in it afterwards)
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Groove Metal
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Lamb of God (deathgrind early on. Became groove metal since As the Palaces Burn)
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Obituary (World Demise along with Death Metal, also extremely influential to the genre as a whole despite largely not being a full-fledged example)
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Groove Metal
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Jinjer (often mixed in with Nu Metal, Metalcore, and Progressive Metal)
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Groove Metal
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Kittie (latter-day material, mixed with Gothic Metal)
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Mnemic (also Industrial Metal and Nu Metal)
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Fear Factory (mixed with Industrial Metal, Death Metal, Alternative Metal, Thrash Metal, and even a little bit of Nu Metal)
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Suicide Silence (between No Time to Bleed and You Can't Stop Me, also deathcore and nu metal)
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DVSR (also Djent and Rap Metal)
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Down (one of Phil Anselmo's Many bands)
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2001 - Iowa
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Slipknot, (Subliminal Verses onward, though it was always an influence)
Corey Taylor
2001 - Iowa
2004 - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
2008 - All Hope Is Gone
2014 - .5: The Gray Chapter
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The Last Ten Seconds of Life (also Deathcore and Nu Metal)
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The Haunted (along with Melodic Death Metal)
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Hacktivist (primarily a combination of Djent and Hip-Hop, but the influence is felt)
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Groove Metal
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Forbidden (Distortion and Green, mixed with Progressive Metal)
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2014 - .5: The Gray Chapter
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Sepultura (from Chaos A.D. on)
Roots (1996)
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Pantera (Trope Codifier or Trope Maker.)
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Superheist (more pronounced on their earlier records, especially those with Berger McLeod on vocals)
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Groove Metal
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Groove Metal
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Groove Metal
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Groove Metal
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Groove Metal
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Groove Metal
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Groove Metal
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Groove Metal
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Groove Metal
 Fit for an Autopsy (Music) / int_3cb0e028
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Groove Metal
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Groove Metal
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Groove Metal
 Ill Nino (Music) / int_3cb0e028
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Groove Metal
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Groove Metal
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Groove Metal
 Lamb of God (Music) / int_3cb0e028
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Groove Metal
 Nothingface (Music) / int_3cb0e028
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Groove Metal
 Obituary (Music) / int_3cb0e028
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Groove Metal
 Pantera (Music) / int_3cb0e028
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Groove Metal
 Sepultura (Music) / int_3cb0e028
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Groove Metal
 Sexcrement (Music) / int_3cb0e028
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Groove Metal
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Groove Metal
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Groove Metal
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Groove Metal
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Groove Metal