Motorhead

Lemmy Kilmister started Motorhead in London in 1975 and basically never stopped, playing it faster and dirtier than anybody wanted until speed metal and the whole NWOBHM crowd had no choice but to catch up. Sanctuary Records went back through the catalog in the 2000s and put remastered versions of the studio albums back on shelves, like reopening a bar that never should have closed. Lemmy stayed the one fixed point through two decades of lineup turnover, right up until his death in 2015.