Various, Broken Heart, Risk!, Ten 28, Dartagnan, Illicit, Paradoxx, Tough Love, Hammeron, Person To Person, The Griff Band

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.