Various, Chariot, Chromosome V, Gravestone, High Tension, Noisehunter, No Trouble, Palass, Stallion, Fype, Thunderstick, Tyrant, Vulcain

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.