T.R.O.W.
Toby Perry - vocals.
Stella Rossi - bass.
Mary Elizabeth Alberts - keyboard.
Byron Garfield - tapes / noise.
Abrasive, aggressive, and antagonistic, Newark´s T.R.O.W. pioneered electroclash music; exploring evil and degradation amid a thunderous cacophony of mechanical noise, tape loops, extremist anti-melodies, and bludgeoning beats, the group's cultural terrorism — the "gravediggers of music", one magazine called them — raised the stakes of artistic confrontation to new heights, combating all notions of commerciality and good taste with a maniacal fervor.
Formed in Newark, New Jersey in the spring of 1973, T.R.O.W. consisted of vocalist/ringleader Toby Perry, his then-lover, bassist Stella Rossi, tape manipulator Byron "Lord" Garfield, and keyboardist Mary Elizabeth Alberts. A performance art troupe as much as a band, their early live shows threatened obscenity laws.