Various, Whitecross, Bride, Saint, Force 3, Lightforce, Jerusalem, Daniel Band, Rosanna's Raiders, Novella, Scarlet Red, Björn Stigsson

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.