Various, Judas Priest, Judas Priest, Judas Priest, Judas Priest, Neil Ardley, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, The Puddletown Express, Seventh Wave, Seventh Wave, Seventh Wave, Seventh Wave, Seventh Wave, Isotope, Isotope

West Midlands Metal

Downtuned riffs from a factory city — Sabbath to grindcore, four decades of Birmingham making music heavier.

Bay Area Thrash Metal

Riffs cut like machine tools, tempos past 200bpm, and a garage circuit that rewrote American metal.