Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: No Wave, The Elephant 6 Recording Company, Bay Area thrash metal, Early Norwegian black metal scene, Post-disco, Detroit techno, Punk rock in California, Krautrock, Dixieland, Les Legions Noires, Canterbury scene, Dark Wave, Chicago house, Music of Liverpool, Little band scene, Italian progressive rock, Coldwave, Palm Desert Scene, Berlin School of electronic music, Music of the Mid-Atlantic United States, Nightshift, Shibuya-kei, Teutonic thrash metal, Anyone Can Play Guitar, Sound Tamasha, Hong Kong Cafe, Music of Olympia, Looking Glass Workshop, Sarajevo school of pop rock, Dusseldorf School of electronic music. Excerpt: Bay Area thrash metal, or "Bay Area thrash," referred to a steady following of heavy metal bands in the 1980s who formed and gained international status in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Along with South Florida, the scene was widely attributed as a starting point of American thrash metal and death metal. The earliest documented roots of the Bay Area thrash scene date back to the formation of Exodus in 1980. By the time the group recorded their full length album 4 years later, five different guitarists or bassists had already passed through the line-up, with some going on to join or form bands that were equally relevant to the area's burgeoning metal scene. In November 1982, Exodus opened a show at San Francisco's Old Waldorf venue for Metallica, a then-relatively unknown (and unsigned) band from Southern California who were recently discovered by Brian Slagel and had appeared on the first volume of his Metal Massacre compilation. Exodus (who were also unsigned at this time) had distributed an untitled demo the same year with a line-up that included guitarist Kirk Hammett. Although Metallica had initially formed in Los Angeles, it wasn't until their February 1983 relocation to the...