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III Warning / Decibel Storm

1987 · Heavy Metal · Victoria

Spain · E-40.1245 (VLP-225/1+2)

Credits

Producer: Boss
Mixed by: Håkan Wollgård
Written by: Jay C. Blade, Spooky Wolff, Apc De Martínez, Speedy Foxx, Mark Ruffneck
Engineer: Johan Walin, Seppo Johansson, Per Blom

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.