If I Were King / Out Of The Way
1980 · Heavy Metal · Castle Records
UK · HM:CQUEL 2/100MPH
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.