Video: Tera Melos Probes the Limits of Dork Horror
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By Scott Thill
- July 30, 2010 |
- 12:30 pm |
- Categories: music, video
Challenging math-punk trio Tera Melos takes dorks to the dark side in the hilarious but disturbing low-budget video for “The Skin Surf.” Its scattershot imagery, stuffed with suspicious liquids and mysterious meats, makes for destabilizing viewing, even though it seems to screen as tame as Super-8.
Tera Melos has ferociously explored the outer limits of bizarre time signatures and unhinged thrash since its self-titled 2005 debut. But the band’s forthcoming full-length, Patagonian Rats, out in September, is more akin to the type of freak-pop perversion dished out by daring pioneers like Devo and The Flaming Lips.
Whether Tera Melos’ experimental rock can achieve that type of longevity is up to the Sacramento, California-based band, and to you. But the group certainly knows how to make a strange impression. Screen “The Skin Surf” and let us know in the comments section below if its dork horror steered you weird.
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brilliant. this beats any lady gaga music video. cant wait to get the patagonian rats vinyl bundle. w00t.
this is awesome. i love this song/video/band!!
This video is wild, i dig it. It’s rare to see music videos that are unique anymore, but mission accomplished!
I don’t really like the music, but they look like fun people to take drugs with.
Sec let me grab a spliff and watch this again…. awesome!!
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