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Provoker

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Provoker is an American post-punk band based in Los Angeles, originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Formed by Jonathon Lopez in 2015, Provoker began as a solo project, focused on creating scores for fictional horror films. After coming in contact with singer, songwriter, and musician Christian Crow Petty at a screening of the American black comedy The Greasy Strangler, Lopez sent him some of his soundtrack pieces to record vocals over. This combination led to the band adopting more post-punk influence, finding a middle ground between Lopez's synth-driven experimentation and Petty's R&B-influenced singing. The band was complete in its current form after the release of 2018's Dark Angel EP, becoming a three-piece consisting of guitarist Lopez, vocalist Christian Crow Petty, and bassist Wil Palacios.