Perry, Georgia's Tombstone Blue bring a groove metal swagger to their metalcore sound, favoring heavy, syncopated rhythms and arena-sized hooks in a combination that owes as much to Pantera as it does to the modern metalcore world.

Minneapolis metalcore act Tomorrow Brings New Blood have been bringing groove-driven heaviness to the Twin Cities since 2012, combining metalcore's melodic aggression with groove metal's hard-hitting rhythmic emphasis in a sound built for live impact.

Kissimmee, Florida's Tooms emerged in 2018 grafting groove metal's hip-swinging heaviness onto a metalcore skeleton, resulting in the kind of melodic, rhythmically locked sound that translates well in a live setting. Their MA genre tag of "melodic groove metal/metalcore" captures the balance precisely.

Torch Jaw come from Tehachapi, California — a small desert town in the mountains south of the San Joaquin Valley — and forge a hybrid sound that draws from groove metal's rhythmic authority, deathcore's sonic brutality, and traditional heavy metal's riff-centric sensibility. Formed in 2021, they represent the kind of geographically isolated band that pushes genre boundaries out of creative necessity.

Torn Away from Flint, Michigan formed in 2018, playing heavy and groove metal with the thick, working-class energy that defines their city's cultural character. Their sound favors mid-paced, crushing heaviness over technicality — direct, physical, and unpretentious.

A Concord, California groove/thrash outfit active since 2005, Torque channels the mid-90s Bay Area chug with locked-in rhythmic heaviness and thrash-driven aggression.

Bradenton, Florida's Torque blends groove metal's mid-tempo punch with industrial metal's mechanical textures and thrash-inflected bite, carving out a hard-edged sound since 2005.

Ottawa, Illinois' Torque merges groove metal's rhythmic heaviness with traditional heavy metal's melodic sensibility, a working-class Midwest metal act formed in 2005.

Boise, Idaho's Torrent fuses groove metal's lockstep heaviness with death metal's aggression, a straightforward and punishing act formed in 2014.