Motörhead

1977 · Hard Rock · Chiswick Records

UK · WIK 2

Credits

Producer: John "Speedy" Keen
Written by: Ian Fraser Kilmister, Derek Brown, Larry Wallis, Mick Farren, Phil Taylor, Tramp, Motörhead, Howie Kay, Lois Mann, Tiny Bradshaw
Engineer: John Burns

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.