Music scenes

Source: Wikipedia. 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 Légions 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 Café, Music of Olympia, Looking Glass Workshop, Sarajevo school of pop rock, Düsseldorf 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 East Bay area that Cliff Burton and Kirk Hammett joined as bassist and lead guitarist, sealing the band's first, formative line-up. The group (which then consisted of Burton, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Dave Mustaine) had moved into a Carlson Blvd. house in El Cerrito, near Albany Hill, which had been rented by Mark Whitaker, then-manager of Exodus. After Mustaine was removed from the line-up that same year, then-Exodus guitarist Hammett would replace him following Whitaker's recommendation; in turn, Mustaine would move back to Los Angeles to form Megadeth. Metallica's signing to Megaforce Records, the release of their first album and the songwriting process and rehearsals for Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets had all taken place while the group resided at Whitaker's El