Tampa's Eating Infinity fuses groove metal's midtempo swagger with death metal's ferocity — a combination that makes sense coming from a city with Florida death metal in its civic DNA.

Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.

Englewood, Florida's End-Bane split the difference between groove metal's rhythmic churn and death metal's aggression, building songs around heavy riff cycles with a brutal edge. Formed in 2020, they're part of Florida's ever-fertile extreme metal ecosystem.

Tampa melodic death/groove metal act formed in 2022 in one of America's most storied metal cities, blending the hooky melodic leads of Gothenburg-style death metal with the thick mid-tempo groove that the Florida scene has always done well.

Palatka, Florida's Erode drags groove metal's mid-tempo swagger through the murk of doom, producing music that moves like it's pushing through tar — deliberate, heavy, and relentless. Since 2010 the band has refined a sound built on suffocating riffs and a Southern sense of earned heaviness.

Fort Lauderdale's Eversinceve has been delivering melodic groove metal and metalcore out of South Florida since 2016, a region that has historically produced some of extreme metal's most brutal practitioners. Their groove-forward, melodic approach carves a distinct niche in Florida's heavy music landscape, prioritizing hooks alongside heaviness.