I've been knocking a lot of these New Zealand bands for sounding too much like their influences, but here's one where the Kiwis just might be ahead of the curve. Thermos is a hard slash of dissonant post-punk, jagged-as-shit guitars, blownout yelped disinterest/desperation, heedless drums - all before the 80's really got hold of this stuff in earnest. It's tense, complex, uncompromising stuff.
Too much setup for the payoff a lot of the time, but if you're in the mood for a simmering nightmare in a ringy metal cube - who isn't from time to time? - here's yer fix 3/5
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