Various, Dead Ringer, Shady Hill, The Nubs, Vertical Verve, Jim Keefe, Faultline, Knightmare, Knightmare, Tempus Fugit, The Metropolitans, Lichen, Witch-Hunter

Seattle Grunge

Heavy riffs played by people raised on punk, recorded cheap in the Pacific Northwest and then sold worldwide.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.