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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Split Point is a groove, thrash, and heavy metal band from New Jersey, formed in 2017, blending the syncopated punch of groove metal with the intensity of thrash in a hard-hitting style rooted in the Garden State's metal underground.
Watertown, Wisconsin groove metal band Squidhammer formed in 2022, channeling the heavy mid-tempo punch and locking rhythms of groove metal from a small city in the Wisconsin underground.
Seattle, Washington groove metal band Squirrel Hands formed in 2021, bringing heavy mid-tempo riffing and locked-in rhythmic weight to a city with a storied history of heavy and extreme music.
St. October is a gothic and groove metal band from Davenport, Iowa, formed in 2018, blending melodic gothic atmosphere with the rhythmic punch of groove metal.
Stake is a northeast Indiana sludge and groove metal band formed in 2019, combining the sludgy low-end heaviness of post-hardcore-influenced metal with the rhythmic, syncopated attack of groove metal.
Stallionslaughter is a groove metal and metalcore band from Tulsa, Oklahoma, formed in 2016, blending groove metal's mid-paced riffing and swagger with the aggression and breakdowns of metalcore.
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State of Deceit emerged from South Wales in 2021, delivering groove-laden thrash metal with a modern edge. Their riff-heavy approach draws from the Welsh tradition of hard-hitting, blue-collar metal.
Baltimore, Maryland groove/industrial/nu-metal band formed in 2025, Static ResurreXion fuses mechanical industrial textures and distorted nu-metal grooves with Baltimore's hard-edged urban energy.
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