Thermo

Mexican punk act Thermo were launched in their home town of Guadalajara, Jalisco, in the mid-'90s. Roy Cañedo, Ivan Perez, and Alain Buitrago (the band's first guitarist) met in secondary school in 1994, rounded out by Mike two years later. The first to blaze the emocore trail south of the border, the band developed a reputation for mixing lush vocal harmonies with guttural screams, delicate musical passages leading into muscled metal riffs. Thermo released their debut, Arde en Mi, without the support or direction of a record label. Surprisingly, they were able to produce "maj...