Various, Motörhead, Raven, Mercyful Fate, Judas Priest, Anvil, Accept, Metallica, Venom, Black Sabbath, Dio

Giants Of Steel

1984 · Heavy Metal · Roadrunner Records

Netherlands · RR 9871

Tracklist

Credits

Written by
Brian Robertson, Ian Fraser Kilmister, Phil Taylor, John Gallagher, Mark Gallagher, Rob Hunter, Hank Shermann, King Diamond, Glenn Tipton, K. K. Downing, Rob Halford, Dave Allison, Ian Dickson, Lips, Robb Reiner, Accept, Peter Baltes, Robert A. Smith-Diesel, Stefan Kaufmann, Udo Dirkschneider, Wolf Hoffmann, Metallica, Anthony Bray, Conrad Lant, Jeffrey Dunn
Heavy MetalBlack MetalThrashSpeed Metal

Where it leads

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.

Where to find it

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