Good list! Lance Garvin is the main drummer for Living Sacrifice, but Matt Putman played additional percussion on the Hammering Process and Conceived In Fire. One of my all time faves!!!!
@@AetiumBandyou’re tripping, bruh. Slaughter in the Vatican and The Law!! Maybe you needed to see them live back in the late ‘80’s, early 90’s to truly appreciate them.
@@AetiumBandSlaughter owns most thrash bands out there. Way more aggressive, heavier, faster and well-written. The Law is also a fantastic groove album
My top 10: 1- Machine Head - The Blackening 2- Fear Factory - Demanufacture 3- Prong - Prove you Wrong 4- Sepultura - Chaos AD 5- Pantera - VDOP 6- BOA - Todo Muere 7- Lamb of god - Ashes of the Wake 8- Devildriver - TFOOMH 9- Chimaira - Resurrection 10- Soulfly - Dark Ages
I like that you gave Prong a shoutout, but imo Cleansing really is their masterpiece. An album that sits at the intersection of thrash, groove, industrial and alternative.
I'll go with Prove You Wrong. Amazing songwriting with great performances all around. Keeps the groove while dabbling in prog and alternative influences. But Cleansing is a five-star banger, no doubt. Funny anecdote: Guitar World did a top 100 metal guitarist list, and Tommy came in "criminally underrated at #66"... smartest line to ever appear in that mag.
Personally i think rude awakening is extremely underrated, i know we're talking about groove metal here but when it comes to industrial Rude Awakening is one of the best in that genre, the title track will always have special spot in my heart
F*CK YES!! I ask ALL my fellow guitar players to sit down with the sheet/tabs to "Beg To Differ," and count the amount of times you look at your pretzeled fingers, and think about just biting them off.
Huge props for including Living Sacrifice on this list! The Hammering Process is a great release, as is the follow-up album Conceived In Fire. I feel like the extra percussion on both of those albums really make them groove harder.
Beg to Differ is a killer album... My high school graduation party (in omg 1990) had a "Vegas Nights" theme and we could take our "winnings" and get stuff at a little store they had set up, and I got a cassette of Beg to Differ. I liked their other albums but Beg to Differ just feels the most solid all the way through to me.
Groove Metal was actually what got me into metal in the first place, Vulgar is my all time favorite album. Also glad you gave Prong some love, especially Beg to Differ. I love that band so much, at 8 times they’re the band I’ve seen the most live. I even have an original Pushead print of the album cover!
Always cool to see more love for Prong, and interesting that you went with what was ostensibly the first groove album in their canon, as opposed to any of the 3 initial follow up albums. Also, huge props for the inclusion of Living Sacrifice! I like all their albums to varying degrees, but The Hammering Process is such a slamming CD, it’s one I go back to a lot because of just how hard it hits.
Oh Hell yeah, I loved most of these albums growing up. Fear Factory Demanufacture changed my music taste forever. White Zombie Astrocreep was the album me and my friends would drugs to in high school, We all had different favorite songs. Blur the technocolor was my favorite. Panatera, Lamb of God, Devildriver, Overkill, Sepultura and Chimaira were all amazing. Jinjer I like Cloud Factory and King of Everything but need to listen to Macro more.
much respect for adding Living Sacrifice.... even though this is my least favorite LS album I prefer Reborn. but there were some bangers on the hammering process. and Living Sacrifice deserve some love.
I’m so glad you talked about The Haunted. I haven’t heard a single person talk about them but I love them revolver is such a fantastic album. Abysmal hits so hard.
Great list. I especially like that you included "Made Me Do It" by The Haunted. The Haunted waved the thrash flag when it was all but abandoned in the late 90s early 2000s.
I agree with some of your “classic” pics like Vulgar, Ashes and Roots. I also liked a lot your “hybrid” picks: Chaosphere, Demanufacture and Astro-Creep 2000. But what I really loved were your early 2000s picks: The Haunted Made Me Do It, The Fury Of Our Maker’s Hands, Dark Ages and Resurrection. Imho, those albums are usually severely underrated. And, as always, thank you for a new band that I didn’t know: Vredehammer. I think I’m going to enjoy them a lot!
FINALLY someone mentions a Living Sacrifice album! They’re a great band who’ve been around for over 30 years, but rarely get mentioned due to their Christian lyrics.
I love the first 4 Devildriver albums. Beast was pretty cool but the decline started there for me. It’s a close call between Impossibility Of Reason and the self titled as my favourite Chimaira album. Resurrection does slay though. Got some new recommendations thanks to your vid. Cheers 🤘
I really liked Fury of our makers hand and last kind words, after that I really didn't vibe with much else until they released trust noone, also saw them live on the trust noone tour supporting ministry and it was probably the most disappointing set I have ever seen, it wasn't the worst set I've seen but definetly was by a band I like, there sound was just terrible and muddy and it was hard to really make out guitar parts and everything really the mixing was horrendous.
So glad you mentioned Chimaira. That was THE band in the 2000s for me. Them and LoG. Imo, Metallica dominated the 80s...Pantera dominated the 90s...and Chimaira dominated the 2000s. 🤘🤘
I always liked the more groove metal Sepultura. The thrash/death stuff is beyond great but they came into their own with Chaos and Roots. Better production too.
I first heard The Haunted when the opened up for Cannibal Corpse in Toronto in 2001. Had no idea who they were. Bought Made Me Do It at the show and listened the hell out of it for years. Banger of an album.
I discovered The Haunted in late 2000 or early 2001. A friend's band opened for them. Hadn't heard of them until they booked that show. I was hooked instantly.
Love so many of these. I get why Burn My Eyes didn’t make it, even if I disagree, but I’ll second/third/whatever we’re up to the suggestions of Life is Agony’s River Runs Red. Any chance of a Prong discography video when the new album comes out? They’re one I need to dig into.
Awesome list as usual! Great to see Prong, but I would have went with"Prove you Wrong". I love The Haunted but "Revolver" would have been my pick. And Pantera, I love Vulgar Display of Power but for me I feel like it's a bit overplayed. " Far Beyond Driven" for me is where it's at. And last but not least, Devildriver. " Last Kind Words" would have been my pick, but only by a hair, lol🤘😎
I love your list man but I personally would have added crowbar sonic excess in it's purest form especially the song repulsive in it's splendid Beauty tears to the eye with that riff Still great video
Oh my God I loved this video so much. I love the coloration you drew between the big 4 and the groove metal bands,...brilliant. White Zombie and Devil Driver are bands I really love and feel like they dont get enough love. Decapitated started out as a Death metal band, but they also surely turned into a groovemetal band especially the album Blood Mantra
La Sexorcisto is a masterpiece of fun groove metal. No anger/toxicity in the lyrics, just b-movie horror! And no dated industrial elements like in Astro Creep.
White Zombie - WPMFKR Sepultura - Chaos AD Pantera - VDOP Machine Head - Burn My Eyes Fear Factory - Demanufacture. Top F5ve ever for me and cheers bro!
10:05 Of course! You wouldn't forget the most influential extreme metal band that has ever existed and their best album! The gods, the legends, best in their own style: Meshuggah.
Awesome to see Living Sacrifice on this list! If you haven’t yet I’d strongly suggest listening to their albums Nonexistent and Inhabit. They are very unique death metal records.
Wow.... I am not a groove metal guy... then you named 8 records I really like..... so I guess I do like Groove metal lol. Thanks for enlightening me. The Haunted stuff with Dolving is my favorite though.
Dude I was hoping that you mention Jinjer!! i knew that I had to wait till the end... So talented musicians making fun music and at the same time SO underated. You can see the Lamb of God influences on Tati's vocals.
You listed all my favorite albums from teenage years. Haven't considered The haunted as groove, but i guess they have a lot of Pantera in their sound as you said.
Have you heard the 2nd and 3rd albums from nothingface? An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity and Violence are top shelf groove metal! They started nu and ended nu but these middle era albums are absolutely top tier with riffs and vocal hooks.
Pro-Pain's The Truth Hurts would do the ol list some good. "Make War Not Love," "The Truth Hurts," "Bad Blood," and "One Man Army," are all absolute bangers!!
Point of Order! Overkill's I Hear Black slbum deserves some love... "Spiritual Void," is the definition of "groove," with "World of Hurt," not far behind.
My list would pretty much include like half of lamb of gods discography, vulgar display of power and cowboys from hell, devildrivers debut, chaosphere and koloss, chaos ad and roots from sepultura, the blackening and unto the locust from machine head, and jinjer with wallflowers.
As a metalhead that has a groove heart, i would add Throwdown - Deathless. Its kinda if Pantera could have added a lot of Melodic textures to their rythm and vocals. And add Testament - Low (thrashers hate me!)
Disagree about Rob Flynn's voice, but that's why music is subjective. Thanks for the Prong love. Those three albums, Beg To Differ, Prove You Wrong, and Cleansing, are all stellar. Beg To Differ definitely goes underrated. Roots deserves the acclaim as a groove metal album, just for the Paul Simon-reminiscent world music view. Chaos A.D. is great in its own right, but more for industrial influence than groove. YES to Demanufacture!!! I was lucky enough to catch them at the Whiskey on a Death Metal Thursday night where they were the replacement for a band that got in an accident. My friends had caught them the week prior and would NOT stop raving about them, then they went apeshit when they were announced. This was about a year prior to Soul Of A New Machine, and still had their OG bassist. Incredible live band!
Hey Metal Trenches, great video. I was just wondering, could you recommend some pure Groove Metal bands that are significantly heavy but have mid-register clean vocals like Cowboys from Hell and Machine Heads debut and Slayer, not harsh like Lamb of God, Far Beyond Driven, etc.
Solid list. I know you're not a fan of his voice, but Burn my eyes is defo a top groove metal album for me. I've you've not heard them, try Pulkas and Dearly Beheaded. Two little known UK metal bands from the 90's that were both pretty groovey.
Eh, i agree. I dont really like Machinehead either. Robert Flynn is a bit too much on the vocals. I have a couple of there albums but definately not a first, second third 4th or tenth choice
Check out A Perfect Murder- War of Aggression. It was recorded in 07 but you can't listen to it and sit still. They are from Montreal great production , songs are awesome musicianship is over the top.
Thinking about it you could probably put Troubles self titled 1990 album as Groove Metal or at least parts of it as Groove Metal. If it could be considered Groove then it would be my favourite.
I would have included The More Things Change by Machine Head, yes i like it more than Burn My Eyes. The Blackening is my favorite but i feel it's more thrash than groove. Even though you didn't include any MH. Also i honestly prefer Obsolete over Demanufacture from Fear Factory (btw, if you're into Prodigy type electronica, REmanufacture is a great remix album to check out)
A band that is very underappreciated that would sit very well on my list is byzantine... they've been at it since 2000, and their self-titled album rips.
Interesting choices! Glad to see a modern band like Jinger added, even when groove is kinda dead these days, and also glad to see Vredehammer! Althought I don't think of Violator as a straight groove metal album, still and amazing record which I love, and Viperous is a fantastic record too! Horrorscope is one of my favorite Overkill records and I have always considered it as a groove metal record rather than a pure thrash one. And yeah, I'm part of those that would've added The Blackening among the top pics lmao 😂 but I will give Living Sacrifice the listen they deserve. Oh, and speaking of Meshuggah, while they were breaking the boundaries between death, thrash, prog and groove, Obliveon was trying the same but in Canadian's land and with more Voivodean influences. I highly recommend you their first 2 records: From This Day Forward and Nemesis, even their third record Cybervoid is fairly good. Love your videos mate! Cheers from México! 🤘🏻
You hit the nail on the head with Jinjer. Tati gets all the attention, and she is amazing, but the guys backing her are studs. The bass player is next level for sure.
If you've not heard them, you should definitely check out Konkhra, particularly their Weed Out The Weak album. I guarantee you'll love it. Band lineup includes legends James Murphy and Chris Kontos. A 10 of 10 album.
I definitely prefer the first self titled Devildriver album. But interestingly I just realised that Fury isn't on Spotify, at least where I live. The Haunted, I'd have to say that Revolver is my favourite album. For Chimaira I'd have to go for Impossibility of Reason.
Holy shit, beginning to end their first album is just CRAZY! So simplistic in its delivery, but EVERY SONG is an absolute CRUSHER. Dude I had that CD right when it first came out. Then they were announced for 2004 OZZFEST. One of my personal all time favorite concert moments was initiating and getting almost the WHOLE floor to start JUMPING during the intro and beginning of 'Cry For Me Sky'!!! Seattle was ALWAYS so READY! They don't call it MOSHINGTON for NO reason lol
"Vuglar display of power" from Pantera is absolutely brilliant, but "Far beyond driven" is a masterpiece too, not only because of "5 minutes alone", "I'm broken". "Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks" or "25 years" are gems. VDOP is for me the best groove metal album, I've heard, but I need to listen to the others from the list.
I agree on The Fury being Devildrivers best. Also Ashes being LoG's best. But I dare you to listen to Chimaira's selftitled. To this day, it is impossible for me to pick one over the other (Ressurection).
Awesome list but you cant have a Groove metal album list without including Machine Head - Burn My Eyes.
Oh but I did... and very intentionally lol. Just personal preference though. Glad you enjoy it.
Wow, not one mention of Exhorder.
Overrated band with a mediocre woke freak vocalist
That's because he hates Robb Flynn. And Exhorder is overrated.
Burn my eye was the sound track to burning weed in my neighbourhood back in the day.
Still one of my favourite albums
Seeing Sepultura live changed me mentally and spinally permanently
With max? Id love to see it with max and igor, not so much with the new line up
Good list! Lance Garvin is the main drummer for Living Sacrifice, but Matt Putman played additional percussion on the Hammering Process and Conceived In Fire. One of my all time faves!!!!
Dude, the Hammering process is perfect.
Exhorder has to be mentioned, a true pioneer in groove metal
They're more thrash and honestly not that great
@@AetiumBandyou’re tripping, bruh.
Slaughter in the Vatican and The Law!! Maybe you needed to see them live back in the late ‘80’s, early 90’s to truly appreciate them.
@@AetiumBandSlaughter owns most thrash bands out there. Way more aggressive, heavier, faster and well-written. The Law is also a fantastic groove album
The Law is my favorite Groove album
Is a Thrash metal band with 2 or 3 groove metal songs
My top 10:
1- Machine Head - The Blackening
2- Fear Factory - Demanufacture
3- Prong - Prove you Wrong
4- Sepultura - Chaos AD
5- Pantera - VDOP
6- BOA - Todo Muere
7- Lamb of god - Ashes of the Wake
8- Devildriver - TFOOMH
9- Chimaira - Resurrection
10- Soulfly - Dark Ages
Devildrivers debut beats there second imo, the mountain, cry for me sky. Those songs make me want to kill someone
Machine head at number one. That is fowl
I like that you gave Prong a shoutout, but imo Cleansing really is their masterpiece. An album that sits at the intersection of thrash, groove, industrial and alternative.
seen prong live with obituary and bls and prong was great
I'll go with Prove You Wrong. Amazing songwriting with great performances all around. Keeps the groove while dabbling in prog and alternative influences.
But Cleansing is a five-star banger, no doubt.
Funny anecdote: Guitar World did a top 100 metal guitarist list, and Tommy came in "criminally underrated at #66"... smartest line to ever appear in that mag.
Beg to differ is better
Personally i think rude awakening is extremely underrated, i know we're talking about groove metal here but when it comes to industrial Rude Awakening is one of the best in that genre, the title track will always have special spot in my heart
F*CK YES!!
I ask ALL my fellow guitar players to sit down with the sheet/tabs to "Beg To Differ," and count the amount of times you look at your pretzeled fingers, and think about just biting them off.
Bro ..yes . The Hammering Process is such an underrated album. I would say it’s on the list of some of my favorite metal albums .
Huge props for including Living Sacrifice on this list! The Hammering Process is a great release, as is the follow-up album Conceived In Fire. I feel like the extra percussion on both of those albums really make them groove harder.
Beg to Differ is a killer album... My high school graduation party (in omg 1990) had a "Vegas Nights" theme and we could take our "winnings" and get stuff at a little store they had set up, and I got a cassette of Beg to Differ. I liked their other albums but Beg to Differ just feels the most solid all the way through to me.
It blows my mind the amount of music that you have been able to wrap your head around truly impressive.
Never thought of Horoscope as groove metal, but that makes absolute sense. It's still my favorite Overkill amond their 1,430 releases.
Yeah it's one of the first, so it wasn't really called that until later.
Exactly my thoughts now. Will have to give it a listen later
I hear black is a better groove metal album by Overkill@@MetalTrenches
Horrorscope had the best lineup. The drummer from the years of decay, with their first two guitars attack. So good 🤘
This Overkill album cassette was in my 1979 Oldsmobile Cultass tape deck for years
Groove Metal was actually what got me into metal in the first place, Vulgar is my all time favorite album. Also glad you gave Prong some love, especially Beg to Differ. I love that band so much, at 8 times they’re the band I’ve seen the most live. I even have an original Pushead print of the album cover!
Cool list, lots of bangers on there. I would have added Machine Head with Burn my Eyes. And maybe Exhorder
Always cool to see more love for Prong, and interesting that you went with what was ostensibly the first groove album in their canon, as opposed to any of the 3 initial follow up albums. Also, huge props for the inclusion of Living Sacrifice! I like all their albums to varying degrees, but The Hammering Process is such a slamming CD, it’s one I go back to a lot because of just how hard it hits.
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Exhorder - The Law is my favorite Groove Metal album of all time.
Ashes of the Wake, Chaosphere, The Hammering Process, Roots, Macro, and Demanufacture go hard! Some essentials on this list, for sure!
BANGERS
Oh Hell yeah, I loved most of these albums growing up. Fear Factory Demanufacture changed my music taste forever. White Zombie Astrocreep was the album me and my friends would drugs to in high school, We all had different favorite songs. Blur the technocolor was my favorite. Panatera, Lamb of God, Devildriver, Overkill, Sepultura and Chimaira were all amazing. Jinjer I like Cloud Factory and King of Everything but need to listen to Macro more.
Really enjoyed your musical listing of groove metal. Great stuff, man!
Wow awesome you included living sacrifice! They have some of the best polyrhythms I’ve ever heard!
much respect for adding Living Sacrifice.... even though this is my least favorite LS album I prefer Reborn. but there were some bangers on the hammering process. and Living Sacrifice deserve some love.
So underappreciated
I’m so glad you talked about The Haunted. I haven’t heard a single person talk about them but I love them revolver is such a fantastic album. Abysmal hits so hard.
So underrated these days
Bravo on The Living Sacrifice!
Great list - going to go back a listen to Devil Driver on my drive into work tomorrow. Thanks for putting it back on my radar! Cheers!
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Nice list! Thanks for bringing up Living Sacrifice - didn't know them yet and am looking forward to checking them out :)
Conceived In Fire is another album from them worth checking out
Great list. I especially like that you included "Made Me Do It" by The Haunted. The Haunted waved the thrash flag when it was all but abandoned in the late 90s early 2000s.
I was pleasantly surprised to see Living Sacrifice on this list. That was one of the first heavy bands I ever discovered.
Last year I discovered Prong, and boy, what a band I was missing. Thank you for this video, now I have more material to discover
I agree with some of your “classic” pics like Vulgar, Ashes and Roots.
I also liked a lot your “hybrid” picks: Chaosphere, Demanufacture and Astro-Creep 2000.
But what I really loved were your early 2000s picks: The Haunted Made Me Do It, The Fury Of Our Maker’s Hands, Dark Ages and Resurrection. Imho, those albums are usually severely underrated.
And, as always, thank you for a new band that I didn’t know: Vredehammer. I think I’m going to enjoy them a lot!
🤘🏻
FINALLY someone mentions a Living Sacrifice album! They’re a great band who’ve been around for over 30 years, but rarely get mentioned due to their Christian lyrics.
Believer is another great band with Christian lyrics. Extraction from mortality is awesome album
I love the first 4 Devildriver albums. Beast was pretty cool but the decline started there for me.
It’s a close call between Impossibility Of Reason and the self titled as my favourite Chimaira album. Resurrection does slay though.
Got some new recommendations thanks to your vid. Cheers 🤘
I really liked Fury of our makers hand and last kind words, after that I really didn't vibe with much else until they released trust noone, also saw them live on the trust noone tour supporting ministry and it was probably the most disappointing set I have ever seen, it wasn't the worst set I've seen but definetly was by a band I like, there sound was just terrible and muddy and it was hard to really make out guitar parts and everything really the mixing was horrendous.
Same here bro. They started to slip at Beast and when Boecklin left iMO
So glad you mentioned Chimaira. That was THE band in the 2000s for me. Them and LoG. Imo, Metallica dominated the 80s...Pantera dominated the 90s...and Chimaira dominated the 2000s. 🤘🤘
Great video, there’s definitely some I’ll check out soon. I personally enjoy groove metal more nowadays than thrash, but both are fun.
I always liked the more groove metal Sepultura. The thrash/death stuff is beyond great but they came into their own with Chaos and Roots. Better production too.
Nah, anything after Arise is meh
Roots was a Terrible album, Not sure why people like that one so much, but to each his own.
@MetalHeart8787 as bad as roots is I will praise the raw production on it and I would still take it over anything after max left
Great list. Love the Chimaira shout out. They never got the respect they deserved
Nice to see some love for Roots
Always deserved.
Demanufacture still on my top 10 albums of all time. Way ahead of it's time and crushes absolutely to this day
My #1 of all time. MASTERPIECE.
I first heard The Haunted when the opened up for Cannibal Corpse in Toronto in 2001. Had no idea who they were. Bought Made Me Do It at the show and listened the hell out of it for years. Banger of an album.
opening for them in Montreal for that album tour was sureal and awsome! Very cool guys
I discovered The Haunted in late 2000 or early 2001. A friend's band opened for them. Hadn't heard of them until they booked that show. I was hooked instantly.
Love so many of these. I get why Burn My Eyes didn’t make it, even if I disagree, but I’ll second/third/whatever we’re up to the suggestions of Life is Agony’s River Runs Red.
Any chance of a Prong discography video when the new album comes out? They’re one I need to dig into.
River runs red is a killer album.
Awesome list as usual! Great to see Prong, but I would have went with"Prove you Wrong". I love The Haunted but "Revolver" would have been my pick. And Pantera, I love Vulgar Display of Power but for me I feel like it's a bit overplayed. " Far Beyond Driven" for me is where it's at. And last but not least, Devildriver. " Last Kind Words" would have been my pick, but only by a hair, lol🤘😎
I love your list man but I personally would have added crowbar sonic excess in it's purest form especially the song repulsive in it's splendid Beauty tears to the eye with that riff Still great video
Oh my God I loved this video so much. I love the coloration you drew between the big 4 and the groove metal bands,...brilliant. White Zombie and Devil Driver are bands I really love and feel like they dont get enough love. Decapitated started out as a Death metal band, but they also surely turned into a groovemetal band especially the album Blood Mantra
Grimaze, mate, Grimaze! You will love it! :)
I agree Chimaira’s Resurrection is amazing but for me it’s the self titled album that I’ll always go back to 🤘❤🤘
Impossibility of reason for me
Now that album brings back good memories 🤘
@@braggingrightsmusic Pass Out of Existence, for me.
@@quentinbringthenumetalchil5125 that album is very underrated
@@quentinbringthenumetalchil5125 It's so good but that album is more nu metal than groove
Glad to see Dark Ages gets some appreciation. It's a ripper.
La Sexorcisto is a masterpiece of fun groove metal. No anger/toxicity in the lyrics, just b-movie horror! And no dated industrial elements like in Astro Creep.
Throwdown and Upon a Burning Body are also pretty good Groove Metal (even though both bands are primarily Metalcore)
White Zombie - WPMFKR
Sepultura - Chaos AD
Pantera - VDOP
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Fear Factory - Demanufacture. Top F5ve ever for me and cheers bro!
Adding PRONG in the Groovey mix brought on a smile.
Fond memories of their
100 % LIVE record. 🤘
10:05 Of course! You wouldn't forget the most influential extreme metal band that has ever existed and their best album! The gods, the legends, best in their own style: Meshuggah.
I'm surprised you did not mention Grip Inc!
A groove metal list with no Throwdown? Heresy!!!!
Awesome to see Living Sacrifice on this list! If you haven’t yet I’d strongly suggest listening to their albums Nonexistent and Inhabit. They are very unique death metal records.
Finally a Living Sacrifice call-out. They have so much musically breadth. Fan of Nonexistent for its non-standard Death Metal
Inflikted from Cavalera Conspiracy is a particular favourite of mine.
NICE!!!
Great list Trenches; Vulgar Display of Power, Ashes of the Wake, Roots, Dark Ages, and Astro-Creep: 2000 are my favorites from this list.
I recommend a Chilean band called Boa, especially the album "Todo muere". One of the best Groove Metal albums
Wow.... I am not a groove metal guy... then you named 8 records I really like..... so I guess I do like Groove metal lol. Thanks for enlightening me. The Haunted stuff with Dolving is my favorite though.
Got to check out Living sacrifice and Vredgehammer!🤩
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Exhorder "Slaughter In The Vatican". There's a "CFH" era photo out there with Phil Anselmo wearing one of their shirts.
Dude I was hoping that you mention Jinjer!! i knew that I had to wait till the end... So talented musicians making fun music and at the same time SO underated. You can see the Lamb of God influences on Tati's vocals.
I'd rather say, they are overrated
You listed all my favorite albums from teenage years. Haven't considered The haunted as groove, but i guess they have a lot of Pantera in their sound as you said.
The Haunted are so many things: groove, melodeath, alternative...
I love the Chimaira pick and what do you think about the Haunteds record Revolver?
It’s solid.
I love that blast beat in End of the Line
I just checked out Vredehammer, they absolutely slap! An excellent recommendation 👍
Have you heard the 2nd and 3rd albums from nothingface? An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity and Violence are top shelf groove metal! They started nu and ended nu but these middle era albums are absolutely top tier with riffs and vocal hooks.
NF is amazing.
Pro-Pain's The Truth Hurts would do the ol list some good.
"Make War Not Love," "The Truth Hurts," "Bad Blood," and "One Man Army," are all absolute bangers!!
About time someone recognize PRO-PAIN, I saw them 8 times , have all their albums. Besides SEPULTURA/SOULFLY, PRO-PAIN is my favorite
@@lowlifeangler NICE!! Seeing them has always eluded me...i get what ya mean...criminally undervalued, ESPECIALLY for viewers of this dude's channel!!
Pantera’s Far Beyond Driven
Soul Fly - Primitive
Prong - Beg To Differ
Lamb Of God - Ashes of the Wake
I am new to this but I have heard quite a few of these. Most recently the new albums by Frozen soul, Creeping death and Obituary seem to fit the bill.
Point of Order!
Overkill's I Hear Black slbum deserves some love...
"Spiritual Void," is the definition of "groove," with "World of Hurt," not far behind.
I've never heard anyone call Horrorscope a Groove Metal album 🗿
Acid bath should get a prop too
My list would pretty much include like half of lamb of gods discography, vulgar display of power and cowboys from hell, devildrivers debut, chaosphere and koloss, chaos ad and roots from sepultura, the blackening and unto the locust from machine head, and jinjer with wallflowers.
As a metalhead that has a groove heart, i would add Throwdown - Deathless. Its kinda if Pantera could have added a lot of Melodic textures to their rythm and vocals. And add Testament - Low (thrashers hate me!)
Disagree about Rob Flynn's voice, but that's why music is subjective.
Thanks for the Prong love. Those three albums, Beg To Differ, Prove You Wrong, and Cleansing, are all stellar. Beg To Differ definitely goes underrated.
Roots deserves the acclaim as a groove metal album, just for the Paul Simon-reminiscent world music view. Chaos A.D. is great in its own right, but more for industrial influence than groove.
YES to Demanufacture!!! I was lucky enough to catch them at the Whiskey on a Death Metal Thursday night where they were the replacement for a band that got in an accident. My friends had caught them the week prior and would NOT stop raving about them, then they went apeshit when they were announced. This was about a year prior to Soul Of A New Machine, and still had their OG bassist. Incredible live band!
Hey Metal Trenches, great video. I was just wondering, could you recommend some pure Groove Metal bands that are significantly heavy but have mid-register clean vocals like Cowboys from Hell and Machine Heads debut and Slayer, not harsh like Lamb of God, Far Beyond Driven, etc.
Crowbar and Exhorder maybe
Fight - 'War of Words' (1993) is extremely underrated
Definitely, it’s better than Jugulator and Demolition
Entombed are the epitome of pure Groove
I am surprised that corrosion of conformity didn't make the list.
Wether they like it or not, I really enjoyed Slayers Diablos in Musica. Totally fits this list
Great to see a GAX70 on the wall.
Last i checked... Lance Garvin always was, always has been, the drummer in Living Sacrifice! Putnam handled additional percussion.
My favorite Prong album is force fed🎉freezer burn!
Solid list. I know you're not a fan of his voice, but Burn my eyes is defo a top groove metal album for me. I've you've not heard them, try Pulkas and Dearly Beheaded. Two little known UK metal bands from the 90's that were both pretty groovey.
Thanks for the rec'
Eh, i agree. I dont really like Machinehead either. Robert Flynn is a bit too much on the vocals. I have a couple of there albums but definately not a first, second third 4th or tenth choice
Check out A Perfect Murder- War of Aggression. It was recorded in 07 but you can't listen to it and sit still. They are from Montreal great production , songs are awesome musicianship is over the top.
Thinking about it you could probably put Troubles self titled 1990 album as Groove Metal or at least parts of it as Groove Metal. If it could be considered Groove then it would be my favourite.
I would have included The More Things Change by Machine Head, yes i like it more than Burn My Eyes. The Blackening is my favorite but i feel it's more thrash than groove. Even though you didn't include any MH.
Also i honestly prefer Obsolete over Demanufacture from Fear Factory (btw, if you're into Prodigy type electronica, REmanufacture is a great remix album to check out)
A band that is very underappreciated that would sit very well on my list is byzantine... they've been at it since 2000, and their self-titled album rips.
What about Exhorder?
Interesting choices! Glad to see a modern band like Jinger added, even when groove is kinda dead these days, and also glad to see Vredehammer! Althought I don't think of Violator as a straight groove metal album, still and amazing record which I love, and Viperous is a fantastic record too! Horrorscope is one of my favorite Overkill records and I have always considered it as a groove metal record rather than a pure thrash one. And yeah, I'm part of those that would've added The Blackening among the top pics lmao 😂 but I will give Living Sacrifice the listen they deserve.
Oh, and speaking of Meshuggah, while they were breaking the boundaries between death, thrash, prog and groove, Obliveon was trying the same but in Canadian's land and with more Voivodean influences. I highly recommend you their first 2 records: From This Day Forward and Nemesis, even their third record Cybervoid is fairly good.
Love your videos mate! Cheers from México! 🤘🏻
Cheers
I'd like to recommend Volturyon's Xenogenisis album if you're looking for death metal with awesome grooves. It's sick.
You hit the nail on the head with Jinjer. Tati gets all the attention, and she is amazing, but the guys backing her are studs. The bass player is next level for sure.
Even if I don't listen to a lot Groove metal, one album that stand out for me is "Point Blank" by Nailbomb. And also Soulfly is great
I always thought that The Haunted debut album was their best work by a mile.
If you've not heard them, you should definitely check out Konkhra, particularly their Weed Out The Weak album. I guarantee you'll love it. Band lineup includes legends James Murphy and Chris Kontos. A 10 of 10 album.
That's pretty good. Like a southern Sepultura with some old school thrash riffs. The vocals are very Max Cavalera sounding.
Glad someone brought up that album. Might not be the most original album ever (nor does it have to be to be good), but that one is awesome.
UNEARTH?
PRO-PAIN?
HATEBREED?
BIOHAZARD?
SIX FEET UNDER?
DIE CAST?
Although your top 15 is still pretty good.
I like these albums ....I would add Sepultura-Chaos A.D. like groove metal album.🤘🤘🤘🤘
Definitely
@@MetalTrenchesMy favorite of all time but.....Have you listened to Cannibal Corpse lately?
I definitely prefer the first self titled Devildriver album. But interestingly I just realised that Fury isn't on Spotify, at least where I live.
The Haunted, I'd have to say that Revolver is my favourite album.
For Chimaira I'd have to go for Impossibility of Reason.
Holy shit, beginning to end their first album is just CRAZY! So simplistic in its delivery, but EVERY SONG is an absolute CRUSHER. Dude I had that CD right when it first came out. Then they were announced for 2004 OZZFEST. One of my personal all time favorite concert moments was initiating and getting almost the WHOLE floor to start JUMPING during the intro and beginning of 'Cry For Me Sky'!!! Seattle was ALWAYS so READY! They don't call it MOSHINGTON for NO reason lol
"Vuglar display of power" from Pantera is absolutely brilliant, but "Far beyond driven" is a masterpiece too, not only because of "5 minutes alone", "I'm broken". "Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks" or "25 years" are gems. VDOP is for me the best groove metal album, I've heard, but I need to listen to the others from the list.
Nah great southern trendkill better than both
I agree on The Fury being Devildrivers best. Also Ashes being LoG's best. But I dare you to listen to Chimaira's selftitled. To this day, it is impossible for me to pick one over the other (Ressurection).
Self titled devildriver over fury
Love me some pantera, white zombie, and fear factory. Some of the best of the 90's.