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Featured Album
Viribus Unitis (2025)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Nihility (2002)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Groove-heavy metal act from Trollhättan in western Sweden, formed in 2023. Chainsaw Holiday delivers riff-driven metal with a menacing edge.
Groove-sludge act from Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, formed in 2019. Chainsaw Jack delivers heavy, churning riffs from eastern Ukraine.
Groove metal band from Falun in Dalarna, active since 2009. Chainwreck has delivered over fifteen years of heavy grooves from the Swedish copper country.
Groove metal band from Mannheim, Germany, formed in 2024. They deliver heavy, rhythm-driven metal built on crushing grooves from the Rhine-Neckar region.
Thrash and groove metal band from Brussels, Belgium, active since 2013. They combine the speed and aggression of thrash with the rhythmic heaviness of groove metal, representing the heavier side of the Brussels underground.
Bucharest progressive death and groove metal outfit formed in 2015, fusing technical complexity with crushing rhythmic weight. Their ambitious approach balances cerebral songwriting with the physical impact of modern extreme metal.
Death-groove act from Sundsvall, active since 2015. Chaos in Control merges death metal weight with groove-driven rhythms from the Norrland coast.
Groove metal band from Norrköping, active since 2014. Chaos in Order channels controlled chaos through heavy, rhythmically-driven metal.
Groove metal band from Kraków, active since 2016. Chaos Territory delivers heavy, rhythmically-driven grooves from southern Poland.
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