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Allmusic

 * "For the uninitiated, the Spiritual Beggars are a three-piece psychedelic groove-metal trio from Sweden."
 * "... the groundbreaking Texas quartet's career did not begin with the blueprint-defining extreme groove-metal of 1990's Cowboys from Hell..."
 * "... there was no greater metal band during the early to mid-'90s than Pantera, who inspired a legion of rabid fans and whose oft-termed "groove metal" style bucked all prevailing trends of the day..."
 * "... only barely staves off gimmicky groove metal breakdowns..."
 * "The Boston-based groove-metal band Roadsaw released their debut album Nationwide in 1997."
 * "Byzantine synthesize the last 20 years of metal into an incredibly colorful, vibrant whole: '80s thrash rolls into '90s groove metal..."
 * "... elements of doom metal, Southern rock, grindcore, Melvins-like sludge, Pantera-type groove-metal..."
 * "...they shifted from the thick-necked, straight-edge hardcore of their early catalog to a version of the "groove metal" practiced by Pantera, Trivium, and other modern metal bands."
 * "They also owe something to death metal and the "groove metal" sound of acts like Pantera and Lamb of God, but they've got a crispness and an impressive..."
 * "... for 1995's aforementioned Positive Pressure it was thrash and Pantera-style groove metal (commercial peak circa 1993)..."
 * "... semi-industrial groove metal riffing..."
 * "Though fans kneel at the alter of this groove metal, the band sure doesn't hide influences that came before it..."
 * "Sweden's Face Down attempted to ride Pantera and Machine Head's groove-metal gravy train..."
 * "Formed in a small town in Ontario, Canada during the early '90s, the groove-metal band Ritual debuted in 1994..."

Alternative Press

 * "Equal parts groove-metal, metalcore, thrash and even glam..."

Drowned In Sound

 * "... limply pushing itself onwards through 11 tracks of turgid groove-metal..."

Entertainment Weekly

 * "Drummer Chris Adler has said their fifth album will "surprise a lot of people," scaring fans who thought the groove-metal band's last record already succumbed to (gasp!) accessibility."

Exclaim!

 * "High On Fire have become one of the decade's foremost doom-laden groove metal acts."
 * "OO% is a side project intended to occupy time while guitarist Jimmy Bower fulfils commitments with groove metal outfits Down and Corrosion Of Conformity."

Metal Hammer

 * On Faust Again's The Trial, "... it swiftly becomes apparent that Gojira are not alone in their disregard for convention and mastery of the surging, reptilian groove."
 * On Killwhitneydead's A Trilogy of Terror, "... the infectiouslate 90s noisecore mayhem-meets-Pantera groove... is left alone."

Spin

 * "Unleashing there devastatingly brutal, hardcore-influenced groove metal, Mastodon sank their teeth in to the crowd..."

Stylus

 * "Why should they follow former members of At the Gates when they now seem concerned with replacing the velocity and philosophy of their former band with idiotic groove metal..."

Terrorizer

 * On band Bastards, "By spinning brutish 90s metalcore, and good old fashioned grindcore 'round the same discordant axis and tempering their machine gun blasts of jarring aggression with sickening grooves..."
 * On band Cough, "Their [album] firmly wears influences on sleeve as a perfect amalgamation of EyeHateGod/Iron Monkey's misanthropic groove..."
 * On Eyehategod's Take as Needed for Pain, "... pummelled by rolling sludge groove after motherfuckin' sludge groove..."
 * On Eyehategod's Dopesick, "Schizophrenic ragers like 'Dogs Holy Life' and the Sabbath-core groove of 'Dixie Whiskey'..."
 * On Acid Bath's When the Kite String Pops, "Dax Riggs unique vocals, and morbid lyrics combine with the usual riff 'n' feedback ingredients... as well as... death metal, black metal... and straight up doom."
 * On Iron Monkey's Our Problem, "The self-titled might have spat a little more bile, but the Southern rawk groove..."
 * On Down's Nola, "It's a great place to start for any budding groove aficionado".
 * On Despised Icon's Day of Mourning, "... breakdowns which morph the unexpected into the comfortable grooves and slams..."
 * On Magrudergrind's self-titled, "... but Magrudergrind toss in a whole bunch of neighbouring influences (hardcore, powerviolence, punk, thrash), bookend it with pop-culture samples and wicked groove parts".
 * On No Consequence's In the Shadow of Gods, "... smartly executed bursts of everything from brutal grind to razor-sharp thrash, their sound is a bravely limitless amalgam of every credible sub-genre... song[s] like 'The Arrival of Predators', with its lurching, spastic grooves..."
 * On Heaving Earth's live performance, "It's a little messy and mostly unremarkable, but a pinch of Napalm-inspired grind, groove, and earnest conviction sees them through".

Others

 * "... that Pantera at their best were one of the finest metal acts ever... or perhaps obscurer Louisiana groove-metal merchants Exhorder."