Various, Kains, The Warhols, Lighthouse, Strop, Bedlam Choir, The Penetrators, Innocent Child, Wil & The Boys, Charming Seed, Chasing The Rays, Loony Tunes, Such Perfect Liars

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.