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Tauranga’s Threat.Meet.Protocol. aren’t your usual noise-punk trio (if there is such a thing). Abandoning guitars, their setup of drums, keyboards, and bass allows bassist and vocalist Austin Cunningham to deliver driving, Mike Watt-style bass lines, while keyboardist Luke Turner unleashes a barrage of wild synth noises. Drummer Evan Pope completes the lineup, providing intricate beats that keep the energy high without overwhelming the band’s sound.

Today Threat.Meet.Protocol. raucously unleash a new single (and brilliant video), ‘#Cancelled’, as well as – this is big news – their third album, which is self-titled this time. The band aren’t keen on sitting still, and the Threat.Meet.Protocol. album follows a tightly-packed run of singles, EPs and albums including The Witch Trials, Where Did You Put My Marbles?, Mindless Consumption and 13 Farmcore Favourites.

This new album emerges from a dark place for songwriter Austin Cunningham. Having lost his partner to suicide, this new record focuses on life, death and the milieu between.

Threat.Meet.Protocol. considered vinyl for this album, but they decided against it. “Far too expensive. Far too pretentious. Far too cool for us… so here we are taking you back to the year 1995 with our album released, as it should be, on sweet sleek compact disc.”

You can find the Threat.Meet.Protocol. CD on Bandcamp, and also in the Tauranga Rockshop for the very nice price of $20.

If you are wondering where you may have heard Austin Cunningham’s name before, he is also the founder of the Tauranga Music Sux collective, now known as Your Enabler Presents. It’s an ironic but apt name, as he and the crew have spurred the growth of one of Aotearoa’s most exciting and thriving underground music scenes.

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