I still place these guys as gobbling Pere Ubu’s pre-LP stuff, as well as other crude-aggo-outsider shit from the fair city of Cleveland when Carter was President.
Pink Floyd (’67), Hawkwind (’70), and Chrome (’77) are antecedents, as is Amon Duul, Guru Guru, and Can. Joy Division and Throbbing Gristle are in the diet too.