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Probot is the brainchild of Dave Grohl — a sprawling heavy metal superproject that united some of the most iconic voices in underground metal history, including Lemmy Kilmister, Max Cavalera, Wino, and members of Discharge and Sepultura. Operating out of Alexandria, Virginia and drawing from doom, stoner, groove, and classic heavy metal, the project stands as a reverent and thunderous love letter to the genres that shaped Grohl long before Nirvana.
Groove metal band from Vladimir, Russia, formed in 2017, delivering rhythmically heavy groove metal from the Golden Ring city. They bring headbanging grooves to the Russian metal scene.
Technical groove metal and metalcore band from South Yorkshire, England, formed in 2018, combining technical precision with groove-laden heaviness and metalcore impact. They bring versatile aggression to the Yorkshire metal scene.
Berlin's Profane Sanctum has been melding melodic death metal with groove-inflected heaviness since 2018. Their capital-city base provides access to Germany's most diverse metal community, feeding a sound that draws from multiple extreme subgenres.
Profits of Doom out of Sebastopol, California grind groove and thrash metal together into a sound that's equal parts neck-snapping rhythm and full-throttle intensity. Founded in 2018, the band leans hard into the mid-paced, syncopated heaviness that defines modern groove metal while injecting enough thrash velocity to keep things volatile. Their northern California origins lend them a certain independent, no-frills spirit that comes through in their muscular, no-nonsense material.
Dallas groove metal outfit Prognosis arrived on the Texas scene in 2018, trading in the heavy, churning mid-tempo riffs and hard-hitting rhythms that define the genre. Rooted in the city's dense and competitive metal community, they bring a raw, live-wire energy to a style that rewards tightness and power over flash. Their groove-centric approach sits naturally within the hard-driving tradition that Texas metal has long excelled at.
Oakland's Project Mayhem AD are a freshly minted groove metal outfit, having formed in 2024 in one of the Bay Area's historically fertile underground scenes. Their sound plants itself firmly in the heavy, riff-driven groove tradition, leaning on the kinetic, physical impact that the style delivers at its best. As a new band in a city with a long and serious metal pedigree, they enter the scene with plenty to prove and a readymade audience of hungry ears.
Rotenburg's Project Thunderbolt fires on all cylinders with a heavy-groove-thrash hybrid since 2014. Their Lower Saxon base and electrifying name promise high-voltage metal that hits with the force their moniker demands.
Halle's Path to Exile arrived in 2024 with melodic death metal rooted in the Gothenburg tradition, transplanted to the banks of the Saale River. Their Saxony-Anhalt base places them in the former East German metal underground, a scene with deep resilience.
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