Def Leppard

Animal

1987 · Hard Rock · Vertigo

Spain · 888 736-7

Credits

Written by: Joe Elliott, Phil Collen, Rick Savage, Steve Clark, Robert John Lange

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.