Bury St. Edmunds outfit Obsesa pounds out groove metal with a raw, DIY intensity rooted in the UK underground. Their riff-centric attack draws from the Pantera and Crowbar school of crushing rhythmic heaviness.

Belgian death/groove metal band from Liege, merging death metal brutality with groove-driven rhythms since 2019. Their name captures the critical, civilization-questioning themes at the core of their sound.

Helsinki heavy/groove metal/hard rock act active since 2019, blending three accessible styles into a crowd-pleasing formula. Their nautical name suits a band from Finland's coastal capital, where heavy rock has deep cultural roots.

Bulgarian groove/alternative metal band from Sofia, delivering rhythmically driven metal since 2008. Their name captures the unconventional, rule-breaking character of their alternative-inflected groove metal.

Limoges groove/industrial metal act active since 2014, pairing mechanical rhythms with heavy groove from central France's porcelain capital. Over a decade they have developed a style that melds industrial coldness with groove metal's physicality.

Marseille's On the Edge throws together death, groove, thrash, and melodic death metal into a high-energy crossover that keeps one foot in old-school aggression and the other in modern heaviness. Their tight, riff-centric songwriting owes as much to Lamb of God and Gojira as it does to classic thrash.

Delft thrash/groove metal act active since 2012, delivering rhythmically driven metal from the Dutch city famous for its pottery. Over a decade they have refined a style that pairs thrash's velocity with groove metal's head-nodding heaviness.

Groove metal, metalcore, and hardcore band from Krasnogorsk near Moscow, active since 2013. Their dystopian name frames aggressive modern metal with a sociopolitical edge.

German melodic death/groove metal band from Duisburg, formed in 2023 and blending harmonic precision with rhythmic punch. Their sinful name channels the transgressive character of their groovy melodeath.