Various, Savage Grace, Panther, Bitch, Lace, Cirith Ungol, Pandemonium, Stainless Steel, Ruthless, Stormtrooper, Savage Grace

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.