I have anger control issues. Not those kind that make you haul off and hit your wife or beat your dog, it’s a lot more concentrated than that. While it has mellowed some over the past 10 years, I’m still entirely too volatile for a 35 year old adult. As a byproduct, I can get very fixated on exacting physical punishment upon people whom I feel have wronged me as a matter of principle. The band Terror taps right into that side of me. They nourish it, caress it and make it feel good about itself, and their upcoming effort (out June 10), The Damned The Shamed, landed on my doorstep at exactly the moment it should have.
There was seething rage towards Web Hosting Pad last week. There was thoughts of buying plane tickets to Illinois or California to get my 58 dollars out of somebody’s forehead. All the while, 13 brand new tracks from Terror were telling me I would be doing the right thing at high volume in my headphones. I dunno if Terror is “hardcore”, “streetcore” or whatever core, and I do not care. When I was a 17 year old kid I got an album called “Biohazard” by a new band of the same name and it spoke directly to the cruelty inside of me…Terror wears that crown now, regardless of their genre.
Hi, I am Autopsy IV. I am a 35 year old man who doesn’t listen to hardcore, and Terror is my anomaly.
Terror - Crush What’s Weak
Terror - What I Despise
Terror’s Official Site, Terror on myspace
I used to have a science teacher that would tell me the anomaly proves the rule. Let’s accept that he was accurate for this piece. If that is the case then Terror proves that as a rule I do not like hardcore music.
Interestingly enough I made that exact same post with an mp3 on a message board I read and watched the next 30 posts go on and on how that was not hardcore music…..It basically became a huge circle jerk about what was and wasn’t hardcore and who could place themselves into the most relevant HC scene from back in the day and who could name the most obscure and now defunct/OOP HC band of the 80s or 90s or whatever. Really, it was pretty fucking embarrassing. I call the kind of music Terror does hardcore and if you don’t, so what. We are talking about Terror.
My first exposure to Terror came via the Fuse network one night when I was drunk and eating something before crashing after a long night at the bar. They played a video for a song off of Lowest of the Low and I was into it! Next morning I promptly downloaded the cd and fell in love. Two Weeks later it shows up in the mail. Since then they have released 3 other cds including the latest, Always the Hard Way.
So, as a rule, I do not like hardcore music and Terror is the anomaly that proves the rule.
I am not gonna bother to go into any efforts to describe Terror’s sound. Just hit play on one of the mp3s below and you will know what their sound is in about 30 seconds. It’s one of those things, you either like it or you hate it. I happen to dig it when these guys do it.
Terror - Always the Hard Way
Terror - Dead End
Terror - Smash Through You
Terror’s Official Site, Terror on myspace, Buy Always the Hard Way
