Groove metal, often associated with neo-thrash/post-thrash and power groove, is a term sometimes used to describe a derivative of thrash metal, which took influence from hardcore punk, sludge metal and traditional metal. The sub genre took its current form during the early 1990s[.
Albums such as Exhorder's Slaughter in the Vatican (1990), Pantera's Cowboys from Hell (1990), and Sepultura's Arise (1991) first incorporated groove-based rhythms into thrash metal. However, it wasn't until later albums like Exhorder's The Law (1992), Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power (1992), Sepultura's Chaos A.D. (1993), White Zombie's La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 (1992), Overkill's I Hear Black (1993) and Machine Head's Burn My Eyes (1994) that groove metal took its pure form. Post-thrash is not related to Post-metal. .
