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Groove metal, half-thrash, or post-thrash is a subgenre of thrash metal which took its current form during the early 1990s. Albums such as Exhorder's Slaughter in the Vatican, Sepultura's Arise, and Artillery's We are the Dead incorporated groovish melodies to thrash metal, however it wasn't until albums like Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power, White Zombie's La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1, and Machine Head's Burn My Eyes that groove metal truly took its musical form. Unlike thrash metal and many of the other heavy metal subgenres, groove metal is not as riff-oriented. Artists of the genre tend to have a style influenced heavily by mid-tempo thrash riffs, accentuated with down-tuned power chords (Drop D or D standard tuning), synchopated chord patterns, mid-paced guitar solos and dissonant bridges or breakdowns, usually mid-tempo. It is a popular belief that modern hard rock or nu metal spawned from this genre of metal. It should also be noted groove metal is not considered to be thrash despite the fact that it originated from it.

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2 Ton Predator
8 Foot Sativa
A.N.I.M.A.L.
Byzantine
Chimaira
Damageplan
Disciple
Exhorder
Fear Factory
Grail
Helmet
Klone
Lamb of God
Machine Head
Pantera
Pissing Razors
Prong
Pro-Pain
Sepultura
Skid Row
Skinlab
White Zombie