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Bergen County, New Jersey's Cold-Blooded Capitol plays groove-infused thrash that inherits the dense riffing legacy of the New York/New Jersey metro scene while leaning into the stomping rhythms that defined groove metal's peak.
De Queen, Arkansas groove metal outfit Combat Valley bring a Southern-fried heaviness to a genre defined by pocket and punch. Big riffs and a swaggering mid-tempo attack anchor their sound in the heartland.
Pleasant Hill, California's Concealed meld groove metal's mid-tempo swagger with nu metal's heavy atmosphere and occasional thrash bite, landing in the aggressive pocket of late-90s Bay Area heaviness.
Tullytown, Pennsylvania's Concoct stir together death metal's extremity and groove metal's rhythmic swagger, concocting a sound built for pit-ready heaviness.
Fort Lauderdale groove metal band bringing heavy, mid-tempo punishment to the South Florida metal scene. Thick, churning riffs and a menacing low end define their approach.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts groove/thrash act combining the groove metal heaviness of the early 1990s with hardcore attitude and thrash metal momentum. A heavy-hitting presence in the Western Mass underground.
Kansas City's Conspiracy combine the locked-in chug of groove metal with the kinetic aggression of thrash, delivering a heavy, head-down attack built for the working-class Midwest metal crowd.
Norfolk's Construkt fuse thrash metal's aggression with groove metal's rhythmic lockstep, forging a tight, riff-heavy sound that reflects the military-city toughness and underground drive of coastal Virginia.
Waterbury, Connecticut death/groove/thrash metal band fusing the rhythmic propulsion of groove metal with thrash aggression and death metal's darker tonality. Their sound hits hard with a focus on riff memorability and rhythmic punch.
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