{"id":10317,"date":"2025-06-20T09:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T21:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/?p=10317"},"modified":"2026-10-18T12:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T23:27:09","slug":"exterminator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/2025\/06\/exterminator","title":{"rendered":"Exterminator!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Exterminator! was a noise punk band in the monotonous, heavily distorted style of Flipper, Kilsug and Stickmen with Rayguns. Featuring members of Influence<\/a>, Total Ruin<\/a> and Meth Drinker<\/a>, the three-piece only played live a couple of times but were still able to release the 9-track album, \u201cYou Need the Service?\u201d in late 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking inspiration from American writer William S. Burroughs, who worked as a bug exterminator in the 1950\u2019s, their music takes on the hallucinatory opioid haze of the Beat writers work. \u201cYou Need The Service?\u201c features nine tracks of toxic noise that drench the listener in waves of distorted fuzz sprayed over a monotonous beat spiralling out to the hypnotic 15-minute long \u201cDipteran Turbulence<\/em>\u201c. Not for the faint hearted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Origin<\/strong><\/td>Wellington<\/td><\/tr>
Genre<\/strong><\/td>punk, noise<\/td><\/tr>
Years Active<\/strong><\/td>2022-2023<\/td><\/tr>
Associated Acts<\/strong><\/td>Influence
Total Ruin
Meth Drinker<\/td><\/tr>
Current Members<\/strong><\/td>James Quick (guitar)
Tony Pearson (bass)
Chris Hardy-Jones (drums)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Releases<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Title<\/th>Date<\/th>Label<\/th>Type<\/th>Format<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
You Need The Service?<\/em><\/strong><\/td>2022, Dec 25<\/td><\/td>album<\/td>tape\/ DL<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n