Threat.Meet.Protocol - Mindless Consumption

Threat.Meet.Protocol - Mindless Consumption

Tauranga's finest to release their "mature" offering from March 11th 2016.

Tauranga, New Zealand - a city of sun soaking, melanoma brown, brine pickling, surfer dudes/blue rinse, bingo playing, 'how about that weather' pensioners and road hog driving, daily manicured, stay at home with the pool boy Juan for company, soccer Mums.

Hardly the demographic makings necessary to foster a cutting edge punk scene.

Yet somehow beyond the furtherest of odds Tauranga over the past 5 years has developed an underground scene the envy of larger, more cultured cities. And with this movement has come one band at the fore - Threat.Meet.Protocol.

Beginning life as a 2 piece bass/drum noise outfit consisting of Scowlin Wolf and the Human Ashtray and claiming to hail from the smallest of rural towns. T.M.P quickly gained a reputation for wild, abraisive live shows and a sound that was dubbed “Farmcore”. Threat.Meet.Protocol set a tone for their music and the Tauranga by being as all good Punk bands are - anti everything. No surfer, hipster, geriatric was left unturned.

Then they grew old...

After releasing 13 Farmcore Favourites and Dud on the Tracks in 2012 and 2013 respectively, T.M.P expanded their line up to include Ray Manzareks demented lovechild in Keyboard virtuoso Luke Turner.

Taking a more serious tone from here in - Threat.Meet.Protocol would start to develop a sound indicative of their music evolution and growing maturity. While still creating music filled with desperate antipathy, the manner for which it was created was that of refinement and men with nothing left to prove to an audience other than themselves.

Which leads us to their new album - Mindless Consumption. A reflection of a band at the peak of their talents and a culmination of all the accrued expectation heaped upon them from their inception 5 years earlier. 9 songs, 31 minutes of serious intent.

Those farm boys did good....

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR "THE GARDEN" (NSFW)
STREAM THE SINGLE "THE GARDEN"
STREAM FIRST SINGLE "FORGET HER"

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