Legendary Pink Dots - Synesthesia: Box Set thrash metal At the top of that

At the top of that short list

the Zombies and the experimental Japanese act Les Rallizes Denudes are but a small taste of what informed Thee Oh Sees this time around

Vice President Dan Quayle's public criticism after Ronald Ray Howard murdered a Texas state trooper and his defense attorney claimed he was influenced by 2Pacalypse Now and it's strong theme of police brutality

and it's accompanying EP Popestar

slow fall allows the space between beats to grow and grow until he crashes into the water with the vessel blasting apart in an explosion of drum rolls

Legendary Pink Dots - Synesthesia: Box Set thrash metal At the top of that