Def Leppard

Love Bites

1988 · Hard Rock · Bludgeon Riffola

Europe · 870 402-7

Credits

Producer: Nigel Green, Robert John Lange, Ronald Prent
Written by: Joe Elliott, Phil Collen, Rick Savage, Robert John Lange, Steve Clark, Pete Willis
Engineer: Nigel Green

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.