Various, Tough Break, Ground Floor, Tamela, Eastern Potata, Brute Force, Fantom Warior, Lynx, Merlin, Norway

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.