Lightning Strikes (Straight Through The Heart)
1984 · Heavy Metal · Powerstation Records
UK · OHM 7T
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.