Various, Xarhanga, Novaks Kapelle, Whistler's Mother, Brass Alley, Gift, Supa Chief, TNS, Acid, Sardonicus, Mass Temper, Goliath, Bulbous Creation, The Ritual, Gollum, The Cross Bloods, The Purple Sun, The Shy Guys, Sunn Cycle

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.