Various, Lynch Mob, Projected, Metal Church, Todd La Torre, David Ellefson, Jeff Scott Soto, Roxanne, KXM, Anthony Gomes, Jeff LaBar, Ty Tabor, Todd Michael Hall

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.