Traitor

Shot Down

1985 · Heavy Metal · Erika Records

US · none

Credits

Producer: Tom Chan
Co-producer: Traitor
Written by: Brian James, John Gonzales, Tim Karr, Truman James Cruickshank, Carlos Gastelum
Engineer: Matt Knight

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.