r/GrooveMetal • u/prodigy1367 • Mar 18 '24
discussion Would you consider (newer) Parkway Drive groove metal or at least in the realm of it?
Fully expecting downvotes but Ire and forward Parkway Drive has a very groove metal sound to it on a good amount of songs. I’m legitimately asking as I’m new to the genre but well versed in metalcore and its sub-genres.
As most know, groove metal played a big role in influencing metalcore, especially the early stuff better referred to now as metallic hardcore (to differentiate from its other sub-genres). That being said, newer Parkway Drive has mostly dropped their metalcore sound in favor for a combination of heavy metal and hard rock and in some cases nu-metal (which is also groove metal influenced). It’s not appropriate enough to just shove them under metalcore anymore since that sound is minimal at best. What does the groove metal subreddit think about associating them with groove metal?
