Earthshaker

1983 · Heavy Metal · Music For Nations

UK · MFN 13

Credits

Producer: Masa Itoh
Written by: Adrian Smith, Masafumi Nishida, Shinichiro Ishihara, Takayuki Kai

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.