Various, Destral, Roar, War Dogs, Street Lethal, Horrific, Raptor, Iron Curtain, Nuclear Revenge, Witchtower, Red Eye, Reino de Hades

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.