Holland, Ohio's Paradoxicide channel the neck-snapping rhythmic punch of groove metal and the relentless velocity of thrash into a combined assault since 2021. Their sound is direct and hard-hitting, built for stages rather than headphones.

From Saint Marys, Ohio, PolyCrisis weave groove metal's mid-tempo pound together with stoner rock's fuzz and swagger, arriving at something heavy enough for the pit but wide-eyed enough for the couch. Formed in 2023, they're a small-town answer to a question nobody was asking — and the answer turns out to be pretty satisfying.

Formed in Columbus, Ohio in 2002, Propulsion have spent over two decades driving groove metal forward with locked-in rhythm work and relentless low-end momentum. Their sound sits firmly in the tradition of mid-tempo heaviness where pocket-tight riffs do the talking.

Based out of rural southeastern Ohio, Psychomancy formed in 2020 playing a groove-heavy thrash metal hybrid that pulls from the rhythmic muscle of groove metal while keeping the riffing speed and attitude of classic thrash firmly intact.

Salem, Ohio's Psyclosarin formed in 2019 playing a grinding hybrid of groove and death metal — the combination of rhythmic heaviness and technical death metal aggression gives them a distinct character within Ohio's active and underrated heavy underground.

Cleveland's Puppet have been playing groove metal since 2014, leaning into the genre's emphasis on rhythmic lockstep and mid-tempo menace rather than speed, constructing riffs built to land like a hammer rather than a scalpel. A sturdy, head-down entry from Ohio's heavy music scene.

Akron, Ohio's Skeptic Lens channels progressive metal's structural ambition through the heavy mid-tempo swagger of groove metal, building dynamic compositions that balance cerebral construction with visceral impact since 2021.

Solipsist is a Cleveland, Ohio band formed in 2007 operating across death metal, thrash, groove metal, and metalcore, reflecting the diverse heavy music lineage of the Rust Belt underground scene.

Groove metal band from Uniontown, Ohio, formed in 2017, channeling the heavy, mid-paced attack of American groove metal with a name drawn from the lethal alkaloid strychnine.