Kiss

Destroyer

1976 · Hard Rock · Max

Turkey · LP 1747

Credits

Producer: Bob Ezrin
Written by: Bob Ezrin, Paul Stanley, Kim Fowley, Mark Anthony, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, Peter Criss, Stan Penridge
Engineer: Corky Stasiak

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.