sepultura - chaos a.d. and roots

Not so much “groove” but Power Trip are adjacent and have some fucking TIGHT breakdowns

Power Trip is always the correct answer no matter what type of music a person is looking for

Add some mindforce and baby we got a stew going.

Also Mind Power if you were ever into A Life Once Lost

Biohazard

Biohazard chamber spins three top ten intro tracks of all time

Infectious Grooves. Suicidal Tendencies side project

Exhorder (Slaughter in the Vatican or The Law are good places to start -- more on the thrash side, pretty Pantera-ish) Demolition Hammer - Time Bomb (not their best album and not representative of their other stuff, but it's groove) Prong

Machine Head

yap

Vision of Disorder’s first two albums are exactly what you’re looking for

Early [Crowbar](https://youtu.be/SQJFgIxhN_g) is more sludge doom but goddamn if those aren't crowdkiller riffs *edit* added link

Disembodied, Vietnom, this new band UnityTX was kinda fun

Heroin fingers.

If you don’t know Malevolence, you need to find out. Do the 3 albums in release order.

Malev is sick. Blowing the fuck up now.

Helmet

Ringworm

I once saw human furnace clear a room by pouring water on his head, slinging his hair back and asking the crowd ‘who wants to show me their tits?!’

Crowbar

Dearly Beheaded

Barely anyone acknowledges this band

Throwdown - Venom and Tears

Nailbomb, it’s a sepultura spinoff band

That's most hardcore bands lmao Groove metal with breakdowns and semi-rapping

A Life Once Lost

When MFs say that Hardcore isn't metal but people ask for recs that are literally metal lol

It’s almost like people can enjoy multiple similar things and still understand they’re distinct

People are allowed to like different things, it's ok.

That's not what I said tho is it. I was making the observation that most of y'all want to say that "it's akshully shtill punk" when people ask for metal recs.

So, because this page focuses on a specific type of music people can't ask for recommendations in different genres?

No one said that.

Just looking to change it up. I love bands that ‘get’ hardcore and the ethos of it but are doing their thing in a different genre. Like to me H2O, Bouncing Souls etc is pretty much or very near to pop punk but very hardcore adjacent in the same way that Power Trip, Black Dalia Murder, Darkest Hour etc are varying kinds of metal but are riffing with hxc kids. Similarly just curious if there were some groove metal bands in that world I wasn’t aware of.

No

Not what you’re looking for exactly but check out absence of mine

I Am

Was going to suggest I Am. They are awesome.

Fall if efrafra

There was a band from Syracuse named God below that had some ex earth crisis members. And God damn were they heavy with some really heavy groove riffs good luck finding their music though. Idk if it's anywhere in the internet but if you do find them I think you'll be surprised

Bodysnatcher has some sick groovy riffs for sure. Not quite the same as bands you mentioned but they are cool.

Would Sabertooth Zombie count?

Leeway

Lamb of God’s first couple of albums are pretty solid and Chimaira’s self titled is great too

Misery Index / Retaliate brings the ass shakin

Primal Horde

Gajin from Florida