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Evidence (2023)
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Terrorway from San Gavino Monreale in Sardinia deliver thrash and groove metal from the Campidano plain since 2010. Over fifteen years from this interior Sardinian town has produced some of the island's most consistent thrash.
Teska from Finistère in Brittany blend thrash, groove, and heavy metal from France's rugged western peninsula since 2016. A decade of output from the Land's End of the continent has produced compositions as weathered and forceful as the Breton coastline.
Tetractys is a groove metal band from Athens, active since 2016. Named after the Pythagorean triangular figure of mystical significance, their music channels mathematical precision through heavy, rhythmic groove metal.
From the small town of Nauvoo, Alabama, The Alchemy Project have been quietly grinding out groove metal since 2010, channeling the swaggering riff-first ethos of the genre into something distinctly regional — unhurried, thick, and built on locking rhythms that demand physical response. They're proof that groove metal doesn't need a major city behind it to hit hard.
The Black Hounds from Wolverhampton deliver heavy and groove metal with the pack-hunting intensity their lupine name demands since 2015. A decade of compositions from the Black Country channels the region's legendary phantom-hound folklore.
The Blackening from Pamplona in Navarra deliver thrash and groove metal with the corrosive intensity their name suggests since 2020. Their Basque Country-adjacent base infuses their riff-heavy assault with the fierce independence of northern Spain.
Seattle's The Brown Scare blend groove metal's rhythmic lock-step with stoner metal's hazy, riff-heavy lumber — a combination that fits the Pacific Northwest's particular brand of heavy music, where the weather seems to slow everything down just enough to make the grooves land harder. Active since 2018, they're part of Seattle's ongoing experiment in finding new ways to be heavy without being fast.
Ocala, Florida's The Burial Ground are a 2025 arrival whose death/groove metal fusion promises the kind of swampy, punishing heaviness that Florida has always done well — a state whose soil seems to breed extreme music the way it breeds everything else: relentlessly and with little regard for subtlety. Their name alone announces a band uninterested in anything but the weight of the riff.
The Burning from Aarhus have been delivering a potent fusion of groove, death, and thrash metal since 2007, making them one of the longest-running extreme metal acts in Denmark's second city. Nearly two decades of output have cemented their reputation for riff-heavy, genre-blending aggression.
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