Various, Shock Treatment, Cyperus, Tempt, Lethal Dose, Turmoil, Show & Tell, Coven, Gypsy Kyss, Prowess, Crisis, The Dehumanizers, Kil D' Kor

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.