Samson

Riding With The Angels

1981 · Heavy Metal · RCA

UK · RCA 67

Credits

Producer: Tony Platt
Written by: Russ Ballard, Bruce Dickinson, Chris Aylmer, Paul Samson, Thunderstick
Engineer: Tony Platt
Cut by: Arun Chakraverty

Bay Area Thrash Metal

Riffs cut like machine tools, tempos past 200bpm, and a garage circuit that rewrote American metal.

West Midlands Metal

Downtuned riffs from a factory city — Sabbath to grindcore, four decades of Birmingham making music heavier.