Various, Highlight, Crime, Exist, Rubycon, Act, Killerhawk, Neptune, Stormbringer, Orions Sword, Shylock

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.