Weapons

Captive Audience

1985 · Heavy Metal · Metro-America

US · MA1010

Credits

Producer: Henry Weck
Written by: Fred Schmidt, Henry Weck, Joey Gaydos, Pete Bankert, Tom Ingham, Harry Nilsson
Engineer: Pete Bankert, Henry Weck
Mastered by: Tom Coyne

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.