Groove Metal Albums

Jesus Freaks (both albums)

Eternal Decision:



Eloi:

OIL 

(a Christian band that featured Ron Rinehart from Dark Angel)

I would add both Lordchain and Lovewar to this list.

They didn’t consistently keep that sound over the years and lineup changes, but early Disciple was very much rooted in groove metal. Check out their albums This Might Sting A Little and By God specifically.

This thread got me on a rabbit trail of looking up Eternal Decision videos because they have something of an infamous internet lore story.  Some of their vids have 10's of thousands of views since people used their songs on Limwire to fool people into believing their songs were demo leaks from what was, then, the latest Metallica release.  Someone would upload one of their songs to Limewire and title it "New Metallica Song Ivory Tower" and it would be something like ED's "The Search."  Then people would download it and wouldn't know it wasn't Metallica until the next Metallica album dropped or even years afterward.

I started combing through Youtube comments and reading the stories people would write about their song fooling them; sometimes over a decade later.