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Groove metal. Groove metal, sometimes also called neo-thrash or post-thrash, [1] is a subgenre of heavy metal music that began in the early 1990s. Heavily influenced by thrash metal, groove metal features raspy singing and screaming, down-tuned guitars, heavy guitar riffs, and syncopated rhythms. Groove metal is usually slower than thrash.
Technical death metal. Technical death metal band Nile performing in 2010. Technical death metal (also known as tech-death, progressive death metal, or prog-death) [141] is a subgenre of death metal that employs dynamic song structures, uncommon time signatures, atypical rhythms and unusual harmonies and melodies.
- Pantera – Vulgar Display Of Power (1992) The groove metal blueprint may have been slammed down on Cowboys From Hell, but it was Pantera’s sixth studio album that defined the genre once and for all.
- Exhorder – The Law (1992) We could waste a few weeks arguing whether it was Pantera or Exhorder that truly first coined the groove metal sound (NB: it was Exhorder), but even the most devout Dimebag acolyte would have to admit that both of the New Orleans crew’s first two studio albums rip like absolute bastards (and last year’s Mourn The Southern Skies was even better!).
- Machine Head – Burn My Eyes (1994) Pantera aside, no one defined groove metal with more singular intensity than Machine Head. Widely hailed as a classic upon its release, Burn My Eyes had all the necessary swagger and precision, but it also boasted absurd levels of none-more-punk energy, a very obvious debt to hardcore hip-hop /and/ some of the biggest hooks metal had ever heard.
- Mary Beats Jane – Mary Beats Jane (1994) The opening band on Machine Head’s first European tour as headliners, Mary Beats Jane introduced the world to the raging fury of Peter Dolving, later of The Haunted.
- Pantera – Cowboys From Hell (1990) Vulgar Display Of Power was the album that put Pantera on the map, but its predecessor was the one that introduced them to the wider world.
- Machine Head – Burn My Eyes (1994) Pantera aside, no one defined groove metal with more singular intensity than Machine Head. Widely hailed as a classic upon its release, Burn My Eyes had all the necessary swagger and precision, but it also boasted absurd levels of none-more-punk energy, a very obvious debt to hardcore hip-hop and some of the biggest hooks metal had ever heard.
- Lamb Of God – Ashes Of The Wake (2004) Ashes Of The Wake marked the point where Lamb Of God truly came into their own, perfecting the bones of their sound while delivering banger-after-banger-after-banger.
- Devildriver – The Fury Of Our Maker’s Hand (2005) Dubbed the ‘California Groove Machine’ by their diehard fans, Devildriver are part of the metal furniture at this point, but it was their neck-wrecking second album that first sealed the deal.
Groove metal is a blend of several genres from the 1980s, including heavy metal, thrash metal, biker metal, death metal and hardcore punk. Albums such as Exhorder 's Slaughter in the Vatican , Pantera 's Cowboys from Hell , [3] Sepultura 's Arise , and Artillery 's We Are the Dead first incorporated groove-based rhythms into thrash metal with ...
Groove metal is a post-thrash subgenre of heavy metal. It is often used to describe Pantera and Exhorder. Groove metal is basically thrash metal. but at a slower tempo. It often has aggressive vocals, heavy sounding bass riffs and heavy guitar riffs with typical heavy metal solos.
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