Various, Underwing, Bong Temple, From Below, Indwelled, Vorbid, Vanvidd, Legacy Of Emptiness, You Suffer, Rise Above, Forvitret, Graatt, Bones To Bury, Carnage Carnival, Cougar, Tomas F Band, GrowN, Bleakwater, Børre Isachsen

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.