Various, Dusty Rose, Influx, Shotgun Annie, Vision, Alias, Re-Animator, Ragged Edge, Nocturnal Fear, Runaway, Sly

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.