Various, Blackbird, Abuzimbel, Mighty Light, Bad Control, White Lightin', Exil, Blizzard, Metal Axe, Kings Club, Grand Vision, White Angel, Enforce, Silver Wings, Syanid, Fairy Tales, Grand Design, Eden, The Beer Hunters, Twilight, Harlekin, Rock Squad, Attention, Vanguard, RA, Hazy, Release

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.