Top 15 Best GROOVE METAL Albums (Controversial?)
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- 🤘 Get ready to unleash the groove! 🤘We're diving headfirst into the world of groove metal, exploring the bands that defined the genre and ranking their most mind-blowing albums. 🎸🔥 From crushing riffs to infectious rhythms, these records will have you headbanging in no time! 🎶💥Some real classics, a few snubs, and a handful of arguable hybrids.
00:00 Intro
00:05 Thrash Metal Band Sets Foundation
00:54 The Groove Metal Blueprint
01:49 The FIRST Groove Metal Album?
02:31 My FAVORITE Groove Metal Album
03:27 A Ferocious Entry
04:25 Another Thrash Legend Goes Groove (& Nu Metal)
05:13 ...And Spun Off Into Its Own Thing
06:03 Even Swedish Melodeath Went Groove
06:52 This Album Is BETTER Than Machine Head's The Blackening
07:40 Nu Metal Goes Groove
08:23 A Late Entry FFO Lamb Of God
09:10 Undead Groove Metal
10:05 Many Forget This Band's Foundations In Thrash Metal
10:46 Industrial Groove Metal?
11:27 The Modern Groove Metal?
Overkill - Horrorscope (1991)
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power (1992)
Prong - Beg To Differ (1990)
Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake (2004)
Devildriver - The Fury Of Our Maker's Hand (2005)
Sepultura - Roots (1996)
Soulfly - Dark Ages (2005)
The Haunted - Made Me Do It (2000)
Living Sacrifice - The Hammering Process (2000)
Chimaira - Resurrection (2007)
Vredehammer - Violator (2016)
White Zombie - Astro-Creep 2000 (1995)
Meshuggah - Chaosphere (1998)
Fear Factory - Demanufacture (1995)
Jinjer - Macro (2019)
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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
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.
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
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
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.
Exhorder - The Law is my favorite Groove Metal album of all time.
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 .
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
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.
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.
Ashes of the Wake, Chaosphere, The Hammering Process, Roots, Macro, and Demanufacture go hard! Some essentials on this list, for sure!
BANGERS
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!
Bravo on The Living Sacrifice!
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.
Cool list, lots of bangers on there. I would have added Machine Head with Burn my Eyes. And maybe Exhorder
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
It blows my mind the amount of music that you have been able to wrap your head around truly impressive.
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
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
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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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
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’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
I was pleasantly surprised to see Living Sacrifice on this list. That was one of the first heavy bands I ever discovered.
Nice to see some love for Roots
Always deserved.
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.
Really enjoyed your musical listing of groove metal. Great stuff, man!
Glad to see Dark Ages gets some appreciation. It's a ripper.
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
Throwdown and Upon a Burning Body are also pretty good Groove Metal (even though both bands are primarily Metalcore)
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
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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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 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
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.
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!
🤘🏻
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
A groove metal list with no Throwdown? Heresy!!!!
Great video, there’s definitely some I’ll check out soon. I personally enjoy groove metal more nowadays than thrash, but both are fun.
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
Adding PRONG in the Groovey mix brought on a smile.
Fond memories of their
100 % LIVE record. 🤘
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.
Exhorder "Slaughter In The Vatican". There's a "CFH" era photo out there with Phil Anselmo wearing one of their shirts.
Great to see a GAX70 on the wall.
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 recommend a Chilean band called Boa, especially the album "Todo muere". One of the best Groove Metal albums
Great list. Love the Chimaira shout out. They never got the respect they deserved
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🤘😎
Finally a Living Sacrifice call-out. They have so much musically breadth. Fan of Nonexistent for its non-standard Death Metal
Acid bath should get a prop too
I'm surprised you did not mention Grip Inc!
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!)
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.
Inflikted from Cavalera Conspiracy is a particular favourite of mine.
NICE!!!
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.
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
Great list Trenches; Vulgar Display of Power, Ashes of the Wake, Roots, Dark Ages, and Astro-Creep: 2000 are my favorites from this list.
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!!
Fight - 'War of Words' (1993) is extremely underrated
Definitely, it’s better than Jugulator and Demolition
I love that blast beat in End of the Line
I am surprised that corrosion of conformity didn't make the list.
Oh man this is literally what I grew up loving and I still do. Best era of metal imo
Entombed are the epitome of pure Groove
Pantera’s Far Beyond Driven
Soul Fly - Primitive
Prong - Beg To Differ
Lamb Of God - Ashes of the Wake
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.
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.
I always thought that The Haunted debut album was their best work by a mile.
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 just checked out Vredehammer, they absolutely slap! An excellent recommendation 👍
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.
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
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.
I love the Chimaira pick and what do you think about the Haunteds record Revolver?
It’s solid.
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
Me encanta el album HORRORSCOPE de OVERKILL.
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
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.
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.
Got to check out Living sacrifice and Vredgehammer!🤩
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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!
UNEARTH?
PRO-PAIN?
HATEBREED?
BIOHAZARD?
SIX FEET UNDER?
DIE CAST?
Although your top 15 is still pretty good.
I've never heard anyone call Horrorscope a Groove Metal album 🗿
Wether they like it or not, I really enjoyed Slayers Diablos in Musica. Totally fits this list
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
"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
Love me some pantera, white zombie, and fear factory. Some of the best of the 90's.
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
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've always called Prong industrial. Call Pantera Groove Metal, fine. I LOVE it. I think Pantera saved me from a lot of bands trying to change/chase a particular sound in the 90's. Testament, Over Kill and Exodus always stayed true to the course IMO.
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 did'nt know groove metal could be so bad ass
I would have included Nailbomb and triple dipped in Max Cavelera.
F yeah! NAILBOMB is the shit
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.
Roots bloody fuckin roots forever!
I feel like Groove Metal is a concoction of Mid Tempo Thrash, NYHC, and Alternative Metal.
Prong invented groove metal, cleaning is my favorite album. The greatest groove metal band of all time is Helmet, Betty is a masterpiece with roots in hip hop. Some of the simplest and cleverest riffs ever imagined. Crowbar and danzig should be on the list, too.
The groovinest of the Groove Metal albums is _Shadow of the Planetoid_ by Planetoid.
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
numerous Lamb of god albums, PANTERA (Vulgar display of power, cowboys, Great southern trendkill) Chimaira (started off nu, then got INDUSTRIAL/Groove) and my fave..... DEVILDRIVER ( Last kind words, it's some what follow up, Trust No One (great effort) they put everything into BEAST, hence, winter kills being so, bland. Came back with Trust, then, lost it again for 3 releases) Fury of our makers hand is great and Pray for villains is nice. will add All hope is gone, has some good groove metal, Sulfur for instance and Vendetta. ooo, Sepultura, nice pick. Ep, I have to keep adding to comment, Soulfly, love for Max here. He's great. Carcass offered some Groove tracks, mainly in Swansong, and couple from Surgical steel and Torn arteries. Six feet under, nice Groove death band.
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