Dealer

First Strike

1986 · Heavy Metal · Ebony Records

UK · EBON 42

Credits

Producer: Darryl Johnston
Written by: Ashley Jon Limer, Andy Jones, Pete Gentil, Steve Tarrant, Trevor Short

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.