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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Tulsa's Cirkus blends Southern metal swagger with heavy groove, delivering thick riffs and a road-worn attitude rooted in Oklahoma's hard rock underground. Their music is equal parts dirt and electricity.
Cincinnati's Citizen X traffic in groove-driven thrash built on thick mid-paced riffs and a blue-collar Midwestern intensity. Their material locks hard into the pocket before erupting into fast-lane aggression.
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Durham doom/groove metal duo City of Medicine lay down slow, crushing riffs drawn from North Carolina's fertile heavy underground. Their music moves with the measured weight of something that cannot be stopped.
Rapid City groove metal outfit Civil Serpent build heavy, mid-paced riffs out of the isolation and edge of the Great Plains, channeling South Dakota's sparse landscape into dense, grinding heaviness. Their sound is thick and unhurried.
Groove metal band from Lille, France, active since 2010. They deliver heavy, rhythm-driven grooves from the Nord capital.
Indiana's Clarence Oddbody brings a beefy groove metal sensibility to the rural Midwest, stacking heavy riffs on punishing mid-tempo rhythms. Named for the angel in It's a Wonderful Life, the band's approach is anything but angelic.
Groove-thrash metal band from Greece, formed in 2019. They combine heavy grooves with thrash speed and aggression.
Claustro is a groove metal band from Buenos Aires and Hurlingham, Argentina, formed in 2011 by guitarist and vocalist Cristian Karpluk alongside guitarist Mariano Valsecchi, bassist Dante Roncali, and drummer Juan Marcelo Hernández Herrero. The band has released three studio albums — Pulsión Animal (2015), H.I.S. (2017), and En el umbral de la extinción (2020) — building a catalog that blends groove and thrash metal with hard rock influences.
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