Groove metal is, naturally, a subgenre of Heavy Metal. Considered either an evolution of Thrash Metal or a return to metal's blues-rock roots, groove metal is characterised by bluesy, slow-to-mid-tempo guitar riffs and Harsh Vocals. It's a very obscure genre name, but the bands from the genre are not. First of all, who played groove metal first? Let's not get into that. Mentioning Pantera, Exhorder and "stole from" in the same sentence is guaranteed to cause Internet Backdraft , so let's not have discussions about who stole from whom.
The use of bass distortion is common. Vocals usually consist of thrash metal-styled shouts, hardcore-styled barks, and clean singing. Groove metal drums typically use double-bass drumming, with emphasis on using the double bass drum in waves, rather than rapid fire double bass and blast beats used in the extreme metal styles. Groove metal typically follows in a medium tempo, [2] but can vary from band to band or song to song. Template:Original research Template:Unreferenced. Some groove metal bands had influence on nu metal bands and some bands took many elements of groove metal, including the use of low, down-tuned guitars, groovy riffs and lyrical attitudes.
Some groove metal bands such as Machine Head and Fear Factory experimented with nu metal briefly during the late s and early s. Machine Head can be seen as a "direct link" to later nu metal bands, combining groove metal with hip hop elements. Many sludge metal bands resemble groove metal, since many make use of down-tuned power chords and mid-tempo or slow rhythms and song structures, although the sludge metal is generally slower in tempo and more minimalistic than groove metal.
However, sludge metal formed earlier than groove metal and most sludge bands have a more distinct hardcore punk influence than thrash metal. Many groove metal bands such as Pantera took influence from sludge metal. The riffing style of many current metalcore bands also has some similarity to groove metal and certain bands, such as Lamb of God and Chimaira are considered to be both metalcore and groove metal. Both bands released albums at the time metalcore reached mainstream popularity in the early s, and prominently feature hardcore or even death metal style vocals, yet their musical style and guitar riffs more closely resemble groove metal than the majority of metalcore bands.
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Groove metal. Fleshing out a Genre from the Middle Ground between Genres So seeing as Pantera is a generally agreed upon forefather of the Groove genre, their relationship with thrash metal makes defining Groove Metal much easier. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading December 14, Metal Culture , subgenres Banger , Banger Films , bathory , big four , big teutonic four , black album , burzum , darkthrone , deicide , doom metal , Glam , grindcore , groove metal , Machine Head , mayhem , melodic death metal , metallica , Morbid Angel , nile , Nu Metal , Obituary , pantera , power metal , suffocation Previous post Next post.
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