TERRORIZER Issue #211 magazine + cd 9.99
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Joey Jordison from Slipknot is this issue's cover star, but don't let that deter you (actually the interview might be interesting, the pull quote on the cover is "I am close to losing my mind"). Elsewhere this ish, there's pieces on Cave In, Kvelertak, Cannabis Corpse, Decapitated, Sepultura, Karma To Burn, In Flames, Shining, Deven Townsend, and a feature on the return of thrash's "Big Four": Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax. Plus all the usual other good stuff, reviews, news, bonus cd sampler (hear some of that new Morbid Angel here), etc. As always, recommended reading for all metalheads.

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Here's our kind of summertime readin': the July/August issue of the venerable British 'extreme' metal periodical Terrorizer. It's got Andee and Allan all in a tizzy 'cause it's "The PROG Issue"! That's right, a special issue devoted to the legacy of the much maligned (but beloved 'round here) '70s genre of progressive rock, as it manifests itself in the context of today's extreme metal scene. So there's features on bands like Opeth, Arcturus, Cave In, and Emperor, as well as the more traditional prog of Rush and Dream Theatre. Plus a history of the genre, a bunch of top tens of 70's prog (best and worst), etc. Terrorizer's revisionist take on prog notes that even punk mascot Johnny Rotten was a fan of Van Der Graaf Generator and Can. Non-prog content includes stories on The Great Deceiver, Mastodon (who ARE kinda prog), Soulfly, and Vader, along with the usual news and reviews. Prog on!

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We stock this excellent British "extreme metal" mag every month, but rarely remember to list it...but thought this time we'd give it a mention 'cause there's a whole page in here about our pals The Fucking Champs! Plus, Meshuggah, Eyehategod, Judas Priest, The Berzerker, In Flames, Limbonic Art, and plenty more. With the sexy female singer of Lacuna Coil on the cover, not sure how extreme that is...

TERRORIZER Issue #173 magazine + cd 9.99
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AT LAST! The UK's Terrorizer is our favorite "mainstream" magazine devoted to all things metal (and otherwise "extreme"). We've been reading it religiously for years - Andee even has his own subscription - but had rarely been able to stock it at Aquarius, until now. Terrorizer's spotty US distribution had eluded us, and there were only a few book and magazine stores in town that ever had it. But, now we're hooked up and will be carrying it here regularly. Basically, it's The Wire magazine for all the cool, heavy stuff we like that The Wire (usually) ignores. It's big and glossy, 96 colorful pages, plus bonus sampler cd!
This issue, we get the reunited Carcass on the cover (can't wait to see 'em, they're playing in two weeks, several of us here already have our tickets!). Also this ish: Harvey Milk, Capricorns, Keep Of Kalessin, Cult Of Luna, Ascend, The Heads, Grave, Made Out Of Babies, Aborted, Brown Jenkins, Annihilation Time, The Endless Blockade, Amon Amarth, and tons more. You can see, it's a fairly eclectic array of extremity, certainly lots of things of AQ interest in there. Among the other features, there's an article on the burgeoning Greek power metal scene, and an "Invisible Jukebox" (oops, "Hard Of Hearing" is what they call it) session with Behemoth, and of course there's also a gazillion reviews too!
On the cd sampler ("Fear Candy #57), you'll find tracks to check out from Capricorns, Ogre, Blood Farmers, Aborted, Whitechapel, Waylander, Kalmah, Klimt 1918, Brown Jenkins, Daylight Dies, Repugnant Inebriation, Algazanth, Withered, Sotajumala, Deception, Arkangel, Insidious, and Soulfly.

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We said we'd now be getting this essential UK magazine of metallic (and other) extremity on a regular basis, and so we are. Here's #174, right on schedule!
Paradise Lost, Anathema and My Dying Bride share the cover, celebrating 20 years of the British doom-death scene they helped create. Also, stuck to the cover: a -double- cd sampler, with tracks from PL, MDB, Anathema, Oakenshield, Canvas Solaris, Dragonforce, Darkspace, Dwellers Of Twilight, Coffins, and loads more.
Inside the magazine, there's stuff on Esoteric, Motorhead, Krisiun, Gnaw Their Tongues, Krallice, The Wounded Kings, Kalmah, Wold, Harkonin, Coffins... Genghis Tron/Nachtmystium on tour, Destruction (the band) in the studio, a label profile on 20 Buck Spin, an Italian death metal scene report, tons and tons of reviews, and a look back at Possessed's classic Seven Churches. Oh, and Anaal Nathrakh do the "Hard Of Hearing" feature, guessing as to the identity of a bunch of tracks being played for them, getting stumped by everything except for Iron Monkey...

TERRORIZER Issue #175 magazine + cd 9.99
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October's installment of essential extreme metal reading material is here. While we read (and now regularly stock) some other monthly metal magazines (including the excellent upstart Decibel and old standby Metal Maniacs), THIS is the one that we've been addicted to longest and love the most.
This issue has Viking superstars Amon Amarth on the cover, and inside has interviews as well with the likes of Benediction, Cannibal Corpse, Iced Earth, Kampfar, and our doomy Finnish pal Albert Witchfinder of Reverend Bizarre (R.I.P), The Puritan, and Armanenschaft. There's also stuff about Blood Ceremony, Anata, Testament (doing the "Hard Of Hearing" feature), and others. Plus a loving look back at Nocturnus's crucial sci-fi-death-metal opus The Key, a scene report on Greek black metal, tons of reviews, a label profile on Profound Lore, and plenty more besides. Oh, and a huge "folk special" section. Well, folk-metal that is. They delve specifically into "Irish Pagan Metal" (talking to Proscriptor from Absu and Mike Scalzi from Slough Feg, as well as some actual Irish bands), "Finnish Folk Metal" (including mention of one band from Portugal...), and Neofolk. Whew! There's a lot in this ish worth checking out. And let's not forget the free, cover-mounted cd sampler, with 21 tracks from several bands in this issue and others too.

TERRORIZER Issue #176 November 2008 magazine + cd 9.99
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The "Folk Metal Special" begun last issue continues in this ish of the premier British 'extreme music' magazine, with a focus on pagan black metal such as Vintersorg, Negura Bunget, Skyforger, and others. American "Freak folk" gets a look in too, with features on Agalloch and Jex Thoth. Elsewhere this issue, you get Enslaved (on the cover), Arckanum, Destruction, Toxic Holocaust, Burst, Swallow The Sun, The Haunted, Gojira, Slayer, Amon Amarth, and tons more. Including tons of reviews. And of course there's a free bonus cd sampler glued to the front.

TERRORIZER Issue #177 December 2008 magazine + cd 9.25
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Thee new issue of this metal readin' essential has Norwegian black metal icons Satyricon on the cover, just in time for Christmas, we mean, their new album. Also: Bloodbath, Cradle Of Filth, Cynic, Paradise Lost, Napalm Death, Aura Noir, Misery Index, Down, and many many more - in fact, there's a brand new section "Choice Cuts" devoted to brief bits on a whole bunch of more underground acts, like Oakenshield, Book Of Black Earth, Phazm, SerpentCult, Guillotine, Outlaw Order, and plenty more we'd actually never heard of before.
Plus lots of other features, including a 20th anniversary label report on Lee Dorrian's stoner/doom institution, Rise Above. And of course tons of reviews, one of the main reasons to pick this up every month for sure. Also, there's the usual free sampler cd stuck to the cover.
Best pull quote of the issue: "I spelt 'U' as 'V' so it looked cooler". That's from the "Choice Cuts" piece about Swedish one-man band Doom:Vs.

TERRORIZER Issue #179 January 2009 magazine + cd 9.25
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THE magazine of "extreme" metal (all metal, really, except for really wimpy glam/pop/hair metal stuff that doesn't really exist much in this day and age), England's Terrorizer, presents their first issue of 2009, which includes their '2009 Preview' of exciting upcoming releases (from Absu to Voivod), the results of the 2008 Reader's Poll, their writer's picks for the top 40 albums of '08 (number one: Enslaved, and hey, Jex Thoth clocks in at 30), and all sorts of other stuff. There's the usual massive review section, and news flashes, and ads for insane European metal festivals you'll never get to go to. Then of course interviews, with the likes of cover stars Children of Bodom, Ephel Duath, Saxon, Architects, and others, including a ton of brief bits on less-known bands, among whom we noted The Wizar'd and The Devil's Blood. What else? A scene report on Swedish metal new and old, a look back at the making of ...And Justice For All, and more - including the usual bonus cover-mounted cd sampler w/ tracks by Behemoth, Kreator, Bullet, and others. Lots to delve into here, headbangers!

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Forgot to list this previous issue of Terrorizer, which of course has got their Grindcore Special Part 1 in case you were wondering where that was! Kevin Sharp of Brutal Truth introduces the genre, we hear from Rich Walker of Sore Throat and Seth Putnam of Anal Cunt, there's stuff about Grind Politics and Japanese Grind, and more. And of course, who's on the cover? Napalm Death!
Also this ish: Wino, Sepultura, Fen, Primordial and Finntroll on tour, a 'Hard of Hearing' session with Apocalyptica, a Prosthetic records label profile, bits on Fauna, Birdflesh, Kowloon Walled City and tons more... including a behind the music feature about the making of De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. And all the usual trimmings: reviews, cd sampler, etc.

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Latest issue of this metal must read magazine. Cannibal Corpse on the cover, and inside, making this a really 'gotta get it' issue for some sick folks, is Terrorizer's Grindcore Special Part 2, with features on Goregrind, U.S. Grind, Crustgrind, Electrogrind, and Gore Art... Awesome.
Also there's interviews with Absu, Samael, Tombs, 16, Psyopus, Cobalt, Enslaved, and others. Brief bits on the Wicked King Wicker, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Ironsword, Iron Fire, and tons more. Pages and pages of reviews. And the bonus cover-mount cd sampler.

TERRORIZER Issue #184 magazine + cd 9.25
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We unintentionally skipped over listing a couple issues of this essential 'extreme' metal mag (but still have a few of 'em in stock - #182 w/ Mastodon on the cover and #183, their UK Death Metal special). So, getting back on track, here's #184, bagged with the usual free cover mounted cd sampler. On the cover this time, er, Slipknot, but also there's features on Funeral Mist (that's more like it!), Heaven & Hell, Gojira, Municipal Waste, Isis, Destroyer 666, Devin Townsend, and more... all the usual columns and reviews and whatnot too of course.
And of special note, in the "Morbid Visions" art column, this month's subject none other than our friend Justin Bartlett, who did the first (and so far, only) in our limited artist edition t-shirt series! He's done a Terrorizer shirt now too.
(Also in this issue's news section, we learned that 3 Inches Of Blood has had their own signature running shoe released by Nike!)

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Latest issue of UK heavy music powerhouse Terrorizer. On the cover, Taiwanese black metallers Chthonic (a particularly awesome and creepy cover shot btw!), inside there's Behmoth, Bolt Thrower, Ulver, Neurosis, Death Angel, Glorior Belli, Burnt By The Sun, as well as part one of Terrorizer's Sludge Special, featuring a rad oral histroy of sludge and of course a brief history of Eyehategod. There's also a cool feature on Until The Light Takes Us, the new black metal doc made by Aaron from noise pop band Iran.
And as always, a ton of features on new and upcoming bands, loads of reviews, records, cds, reissues, shows, books movies, and this issue comes with a double cd, one of the discs featuring exclusively unsigned bands!

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Awesome cover - Immortal!! The larger than life face of Abbath staring out at you in perfect corpsepaint.
Also this ish: Slayer, Nile, Venom, Marduk, Baroness, Secrets Of The Moon, My Dying Bride, Evile, and plenty more.
On the free cover-mounted sampler cd: The Ruins Of Beverast, Skeletonwitch, Destruction, Gwar, Paradise Lost, Belphegor, and a bunch of other less well known acts.
As always, an essential metal periodical.

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Another fine issue of this monthly must-read metal mag from the UK... this issue comes bagged with the usual free cd sampler, its got tracks by Gorgoroth, Katatonia, Count Raven, Saviours, Swallow The Sun, Griftegard, Sacred Steel, and others... including, uh, a band called Milking The Goatmachine. And, also this issue comes with an Immortal poster. Then, of course, the magazine itself is full of good readin', about such bands as Nile, Hypocrisy, Shrinebuilder, Pelican, Katatonia, Dark Funeral, Belphegor, Rammstein, Gorgoroth, and freakin' Manilla Road!! Among others. Plus reviews and news and whatnot as per usual.

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"Jump in the fire" with Skeletonwitch! That's who's on the cover here, making the big time it seems, ah we remember 'em when...
Also this issue, Converge, Canadian black metal, A Rammstein poster (oooh), Om, Finntroll, The Accused, Russian Circles, Gama Bomb, Weapon, Overkill, Portal, and tons more, all the usual reviews, news, ads for cool festivals they only have over there in Europe, etc.
Oh, and there's also a free sampler cd featuring cuts from Skitliv, The Meads Of Asphodel, Dark Age, Arsis, and more...

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Emperor mastermind Ishahn is on the cover of this issue of the UK's top extreme metal magazine, promoting his new solo album... which is funny 'cause lately, with his beard and glasses, he's looking a lot like Eric Clapton!
This issue also contains Terrorizer's picks for the Top 40 Albums of the Year, 2009, and the Readers' Poll results for 2009 as well, along with a 2010 preview of what's coming up that might be good...
Also stuffed into this issue: Katatonia (being played mystery records a la The Wire's "Invisible Jukebox"), Overkill, Azaghal, Von, Rotting Christ, a label profile on Season Of Mist, a 3-page report from the Nuclear War Now! festival in Berlin, and more, including all the usual news and reviews and stuff. But, this issue (the ones we got) didn't include the usual sampler cd. Ah well. However, this ish does come with a free gothic mini-magazine bound in the center...

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The February '10 issue of the UK's ultimate extreme metal magazine (always a must read we think) is here. Finntroll are the cover stars, and they deserve to be, what with all the trouble they went to with makeup, costuming, prosthetic troll ears and stuff. Plus they're awesome. Also this ish: Sigh, Shining (the jazzy one), Rotting Christ, Cathedral, Ov Hell, Anaal Nathrakh, Eyehategod, Cannibal Corpse, Nirvana 2002, Chthonic, White Wizzard, Claw, and loads more. Also, news of a Godflesh reunion, a special feature on the origins of "metalcore", and a bit about the upcoming Roadburn fest that Allan's gearing up to go to.

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Out of jail, on the cover: Burzum! "The man behind the myth." Also in this issue of the UK's foremost glossy extreme metal magazine: High On Fire, Borknagar, Negura Bunget, Immolation, Wolf, Skeletonwitch, Kerasphorus, and, among other things, part two of their Metalcore special begun last ish, featuring the likes of Converge and Earth Crisis. Plus the usual bonus sampler cd.

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On the cover: JUDAS PRIEST! Inside, 1349, Watain, Trigger The Bloodshed, Unholy Grave, Brutal Truth, Cathedral, Unleashed, Vomitor, Master, Exodus, and more more more. Tons of reviews, and a cover mounted cd packed with tracks from Dissection, 1349, Exodus, Skyforger, Order Of Ennead, Skull Of A Mammoth (!) and a bunch more....

TERRORIZER Issue #197 magazine + cd 9.25
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The Wire magazine of Metal magazines. As far as we're concerned. From England, a must read, etc. This issue... Watain are the cover stars, looking like they just stepped out of a "troo grim" version of Time Bandits. Also, inside: Skyforger, Annihilator, Keep Of Kalessin, Armored Saint, Jucifer, Karma To Burn, The Howling Wind, and the delightfully named Dew-Scented. Plus lots more, like Grand Magus in the studio, Ivar from Enslaved making a mix tape, and a Roadburn report. Plus reviews... and the bonus free cd sampler on the cover.

TERRORIZER Issue #198 magazine + cd 9.25
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Hmm, got two issues to review this list! Either Terrorizer's publication schedule is screwy, or ours is. Probably ours! Well, twice the Terrorizer won't hurt, you like to read, right? This issue features such worthies as Grand Magus (on the cover this time), Nachtmystium, the Melvins, Ramesses, Harvey Milk, Lair Of The Minotaur, and much more, including a studio report from Torche, a label profile of Bindrune Recordings, and a eulogy for Ronnie James Dio. Plus a free cover-mounted sampler cd. As always, essential for the metal fan who wants to keep informed.

TERRORIZER Issue #199 magazine + cd 9.25
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Bold move, Terrorizer, putting spandex-clad Swedish retro metallers Enforcer on the cover! We fully approve, just surprised is all. Inside, this ish, you'll also find the likes of Enslaved, Yob, Yakuza, Starkweather, Grave, Cannibis Corpse, and others. Plus the usual reviews, news, free cover-mounted cd sampler, etc. And a feature on top "40 Riffs Of Sickness" of all time!

TERRORIZER Issue #200 magazine + cd 9.25
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Whoo-hoo! Congats to the UK's mightiest metal periodical upon reaching their 200th issue. To celebrate, there's (part one of) a feature on the "200 essential albums" as picked by a bunch of your favorite bands... Also this ish, cover stars Sepultura look back at their past. And also: Limbonic Art, Winterfylleth, Misery Index, Blind Guardian, Mael Mordha, Danzig, Horseback, Castevet, Doro, and plenty more... Plus the usual ton o' reviews, news, ads for awesome European metal festivals you probably won't be going to, and a free cover-mounted cd sampler.

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Killing Joke on the cover. Inside, also, for your extreme metal reading pleasure: Enslaved, Swans, Hammers Of Misfortune, Dimmu Borgir, The Sword, Death Angel, Moonsorrow, Gama Bomb, and plenty more. And not one but two free cd samplers included inside the shrinkwrap.

TERRORIZER Issue #202 magazine + cd 9.99
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Another issue of our favorite monthly metal mag. Well Decibel comes close, but we've been reading England's Terrorizer for YEARS. On the cover this time, Southern heavies Kylesa, representing the "Dirty South" in this ish's "Dixie Metal" scene report, which also features The Sword, Zoroaster, Torche, Arson Anthem (Phil from Pantera and Mike from EHG) and others. Also: Melechesh, Cephalic Carnage, Wolves In The Throne Room (doing the Invisible Jukebox thing), Sahg, The Crown, Malevolent Creation, Spiritual Beggars, Absu, and more. There's also part 3 of the Terrorizer Top 200 metal albums of all time... and all the usual reviews and news and stuff. Plus, on the cover, a cd sampler, with Kylesa, Tank, Dimmu Borgir, October Tide, Hail Of Bullets, etc.

TERRORIZER Issue #203 magazine + cd 9.99
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More metal reading for you, buckle down!! This ish has UK thrashers Evile on the cover, plus Opeth, Cradle Of Filth, Gnaw Their Tongues, Monster Magnet, Dimmu Borgir, Atheist, Firewind, Sargeist, Hail Of Bullets, Warbringer, John Garcia, Atlantean Kodex, Ghost, Diamatregon, Father Befouled, and more! Lots of reviews, bonus Goth magazine section, free cover mounted cd sampler, etc.

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Electric Wizard are the cover stars for this issue of one of our two monthly metal must-reads (the other being Decibel, which also featured EW on their cover recently). Quite a photogenic group, especially the new bassist with tattoos all over his face (his day job: tattoo artist, of course).
Also this issue, in depth interviews with Triptykon, Meads Of Asphodel, Slough Feg, Krieg, Woe, Blut Aus Nord, Bastard Priest, Sodom, Forbidden, and more. Cattle Decapitation do the Invisible Jukebox thing; one of the bands they have to identify is Caninus, which isn't difficult for 'em since they did a split with that pitbull-fronted band.
Plus there's shorter bits on Salome, Encoffination, Anguished, Procession, Enochian Crescent, and many others. Then there's all the reviews and news and ads for festivals and whatnot. And finally the free cover-mounted cd sampler.

TERRORIZER Issue #205 magazine + cd 9.99
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On the cover for some reason, Turisas. And inside this new issue of our favorite glossy metal mag from the UK, there's also Agalloch, Baroness, Impaled Nazarene, Kverlertak, Orange Goblin, and plenty more. Plus tons news and reviews of course. And the usual ads for insane European metal festivals we wish were could be at. And then there's the bonus cd sampler stuck to the cover. Metal, metal, metal!

TERRORIZER Issue #207 magazine + cd 9.99
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Blood splattered dudes from Watain and Shining grace the cover of this month's Terrorizer, the UK's premier heavy metal and other "extreme" music magazine, which is pretty much a must read 'round these parts. Also inside: Cavalera Conspiracy, Trap Them, Cauldron, Crowbar, Godflesh, Rotten Sound, Kyuss Lives, and plenty more. Adding value for yr dollar, there's a sampler cd tucked into the shrinkwrap, with everything from the retro thrash of Havok to the proggy vintage sounding doom of Blood Ceremony.

TERRORIZER Issue #208 magazine + cd 9.99
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Another monthly installment of this venerable UK extreme metal magazine is here... this issue they've got Ghost, Graveyard, Kylesa, Darkest Hour, Moonsorrow, Paradise Lost, Autopsy, Assaulter, Arch Enemy, Protest The Hero, Altar Of Plagues, Dornenreich, Fen (those last three part of a "Post-Black Metal Spotlight"), and, on the cover, those chart topping Vikings, Amon Amarth. Plus loads more, including the usual ton o' reviews, bonus free guitar mag Sick Sounds (feat. Children Of Bodom), and bonus free cd sampler stuck to the cover, which we just spun here in the store, enjoying the new tracks from Cruachan, 40 Watt Sun (ex-Warning), and Bullet, among others.

TERRORIZER Issue #209 magazine + cd 9.99
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Arch Enemy frontwoman Angela Gossow is on the cover (hmm why'd they pick her?), inside there's also features on Anaal Nathrakh, Primordial, Blood Ceremony, Septic Flesh, Pentagram, Cruachan, The Dwarves, Between The Buried And Me, In Solitude, Negative Plane, Corrosion Of Conformity (in the studio!), and more.... we learn why Kvelertak didn't show up to the Scion Rock fest in LA - somebody stole the singer's backpack, which contained all the band's passports, from a Burger King in Oslo! Man, the rest of the band must have been pissed at him. There's also a bit with David Vincent of Morbid Angel, talking about how extreme and next level their new album (due out next week) is gonna be... we'll see... heard otherwise!
Plus the usual reviews and news and free cover mount cd sampler. As always, a must-read for metal heads.

TERRORIZER Issue #212 magazine + cd 9.99
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If you love metal, you really ought to be reading the two metal mags we carry regularly, Decibel and the UK's Terrorizer. Years from now, you'll wish you had a copy of this issue so you can nostalgically look back on 2011 and remember cover star... Tom G. Warrior!! Hey the former Celtic Frost / current Triptykon front man is a good interview. Weird dude. Also this issue: Premonition 13, Toxic Holocaust, Opeth, Runhild Gammelsaeter of Thorr's Hammer, Decapitated, Iwrestledabearonce, Book Of Black Earth, and plenty more including short bits on Disma, Volture, and others. The occasional Decibel/Terrorizer overlap happens with a Skeletonwitch studio report (really?). And there's the usual big batch o' reviews etc. Oh, and a free cd sampler stuck to the cover, with everyone from Twisted Tower Dire to Orthodox on it...

TERRORIZER Issue #213 magazine + 2cd 9.99
Another month, another installment of the UK's long-running metal-must read, Terrorizer. On the cover, looking like he just was in some sort of accident (or battle?), Nergal of Behemoth fame. Inside, stuff pertaining to such fine bands as Yob, Watain, Candlemass, Cerebral Ballzy, Evile, Gojira, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Anthrax, Obituary, Today Is The Day, and more! Comes with not one, but two, cd samplers.

TERRORIZER Issue #214 magazine + cd 9.99
Metal in the form of a magazine, in a bag, with a cd sampler. Cover star, Michael Akerfeldt of Opeth (who is "liberated from the shackles of metal" he says). Also inside, Mastodon, Tombs, Black Cobra, The Devil's Blood, Wolves In The Throne Room, Absu, Evile, Textures, and plenty more. The cd sampler's got tracks from Mastodon, Evile, Skeletonwitch, Fleshgod Apocalypse (check them out!!), and others as well.

TERRORIZER Issue #215 magazine + cd 9.99
Metal in the form of a magazine, in a bag, with a cd sampler. Cover star, "genius" Devin Townsend. Also inside, Cradle Of Filth, Skeletonwitch, In Solitude, Sepultura, Hammers Of Misfortune, Machine Head, Dimmu Borgir, and plenty more. The cd sampler's got tracks from Hammers, The Devil's Blood, Amebix, Absu, Craft, and others as well.

TERRORIZER Issue #216 magazine + cd 9.99
A Dimmu Borgir dude glowers at us from the cover of this new issue of the UK's premier metal mag. And inside, something for everybody, of every metal persuasion: Burzum, Black Cobra, Venom, Morbid Angel, Kvelertak, Megadeth, Cathedral, Krisiun, Finntroll, Iced Earth, The Devil's Blood, and plenty more! Plus, there's the usual free sampler cd included, with an exclusive Devin Townsend cut plus tracks by Venom, Cormorant, and a bunch more. Seriously, if you like metal, you should be reading Terrorizer. We have for years, and look at us now!

TERRORIZER Issue #217 magazine + cd 9.99
Another issue of this UK metal monthly. On the cover, an old photo of Burzum (to accompany a new exclusive interview). Also: Shining, Iced Earth, Meshuggah, Venom, Nasum (RIP), Dragonforce, Devin Townsend, Nightwish, Animals As Leaders (in the included "Sick Sounds" guitar mag supplement) and more... all strains of metal covered it would seem. There's the usual news, reviews, and cd sampler (w/ tracks by Burzum, Wolvhammer, Sigiriya (ex-Acrimony), Vektor, and others.

TERRORS Inequipoise (Monorail Trespassing) cassette 6.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
A tremendous cassette only release from the Terrors, an unknown project presumably based out of Los Angeles who offers up some totally desolate, bedroom recordings for cheap synths, guitar, voice, and -- because it's on Monorail Trespassing - snippets of noise. The first track has this creepy, nocturnal repeating motif of minor key melody that is trying to be a Rhodes keyboard but is probably something much more disposable, but that melody could be something easily found on a Labradford album or even a Bohren and Der Club of Gore track, but run through William Basinski's tape machinations. Ghostly splashes of droning guitar ebb and flow around that melodic passage, furthering the darkened gloom which settles around the track. This alone is worth the price of admission! The next track and a few fragmented moments on the other side feature vocals from the Terrors. It's a painfully lonely voice singing into a crappy microphone, which accentuates the melancholy vocal melody wrapped with plenty of tape hiss and an occasional downer strum on an acoustic guitar. These songs appear as a cross between Devendra and Grouper, as these roughly hewn takes on whatever was at hand with the pure emotion coming through the songs, cast in a hue that is profoundly depressed for the Terrors. The last track on this cassette ends with a arcing wash of white noise, that almost sounds like Terrors set up his recording under the flight path of LAX, just to get the rush of a plane taking off to conclude this track. It's a C-30 tape, and limited to 125 copies. Really great!

TERRY MALTS Something About You (Slumberland) 7" 4.50
Bet you never thought you'd see Charles Manson on a Slumberland record. At least he's been made up with some blue eye shadow and some pink lipstick, and the record is pressed on pink vinyl. It's record number two from SF punk pop combo Terry Malts, who definitely find inspiration from classic punk combos like the Undertones and the Buzzcocks, but who make that sound their own, cranking up the echo and the reverb, adding some seriously muscly drumming, anchoring some fuzzed out guitar buzz and some thick low slung basslines, all shot through with little melodies, the band doing a fine job of balancing pop dreaminess with fierce punkiness. The A side would be a hit for sure if punk rock had 'hits', while the B side takes their sound and makes it even more distorted and murky, wreathing everything in swirls of feedback, finishing things off with a crazy catchy short sharp blast of pro-atheist punkiness.

TES LA ROK No Need 2 Be Nasty (Red Volume) 12" 14.98

TEST ICICLES For Screening Purposes Only (Domino) cd 14.98

MPEG Stream: "Your Biggest Mistake"
MPEG Stream: "Pull The Lever"
MPEG Stream: "Boa Vs. Python"

TETRAGON Nature (Lion Productions ) cd 14.98
Achtung! Here's another kool krautrock reissue brought to us by the Lion label, continuing their noble efforts in that area recently represented by reissues of Sergius Golowin, Guru Guru, and Emtidi. This is one that some of us here (well, Allan) had been looking forward to for a while - he'd been trying to find a copy of a previous, out of print, import only reissue of this album ever since hearing part of it on his own kraut/psych/prog radio show Klaus To The Edge (co-DJ Alison had played a track), so it's nice to have this new domestic reissue! The deal with Tetragon is that they performed a wonderfully proggy, mostly instrumental, technically accomplished style of krautrock, very much inspired by classical keyboards of British proto-prog act The Nice (Keith Emerson's band before ELP, dontcha know), as well as by Soft Machine, the electric jazz experiments of Miles Davis, and the heavier sort of psychedelic blues rock a la Cream.
Originally a teenage three-piece (keys/bass/drums) named Trikolon, formed in 1967, in 1971 they added a guitarist and thus became Tetragon. Their keyboard dominated sound (Hammond organ, clavinet, piano) now had distorted wah wah guitar to increase its heft and complexity. That same year saw the release of Tetragon's sole album on their own label Soma, in an edition of just 400 copies, housed in a lovely green cover to match the ecologically "green" nature theme of the title. It's a virtuoso performance, particularly considering each track was recorded in just a few takes, with no overdubs! While some krautrock music we dig is all about drugged out primitivism, this is the sort of thing that benefits from the players' tasteful musicianship. The first track, "Fugue" sorta sets the tone for this melodically moody, yet grooving, album. It's 16 minutes long, and based on a piece by J.S. Bach (though we don't think Bach ever envisioned an electronically-effected drum solo, or wild acid rock guitar soloing!). Elsewhere on the album, Tetragon also adapt some of Gershwin's music from West Side Story (via jazz drummer Buddy Rich's arrangement, apparently) on the 13+ minute "A Short Story". But not every track here is long - there's the mere 19 second bizarre electronic outburst of "Jokus" to balance things out.
This is another album to feed our fantasy of someday opening another store called "1971" that ONLY sells reissues of records originally released in 1971! Whaddya think? It could happen. Maybe we will change Aquarius to that format.
As we've come to expect from Lion, this reissue is quite nicely done, with lengthy, informative liner notes and photos in the cd booklet, plus on the disc itself a significant bonus track, the live 14+ minute mega-jam "Doors In Between" from '72.
MPEG Stream: "Irgendwas"
MPEG Stream: "Fugue"

TETRAGON Stretch (Garden Of Delights) cd 22.00
We highlighted the Lion Productions reissue of Nature, the (until now) sole album from way-cool, keyboard-heavy, progged-out krautrock obscurities Tetragon, just a few weeks ago, and now here's ANOTHER, entirely unreleased album from the same band unearthed by krautrock specialists Garden Of Delights! If anything, this one's even more badass. Recorded live in the studio towards the end of 1971 (just a few months after Nature came out), these five tracks here meant for release on LP at the time, but that never happened, the efforts of Tetragon's four very talented musicians never getting the exposure they deserved back in they day (heck even the album that they did manage to get released was done in a VERY small pressing). Well it was 1971, so record buyers were presumably a bit overwhelmed. Still, Nature and now Stretch are worthy of being part of the class of '71, a year we consider one of the best ever in the history of recorded music - particularly of the psych/prog/kraut variety.
Stretch is all-instrumental, the band members just goin' off, doin' their thing, which was virtuoso, jazz-fusion inflected prog influenced by Miles Davis, The Nice and ELP, various Canterbury bands... and especially here, British jazz-rock organist Brian Auger. There's lots of solo action, as well as much precision ensemble playing. With wild widdly Hammond organ jamming, acid rock fuzz guitar, a heavy backbeat, and tons of technical chops, this simply cooks.
Of the 5 tracks on Stretch, which, um, stretch over 43 minutes, Tetragon do two covers: "Listen Here" by Eddie Harris and "Dragon Song" by John McLaughlin. Though perhaps as far as Tetragon were concerned, they were Brian Auger covers, 'cause their hero had previously done both of these songs on albums of his own, and Tetragon were inspired by his arrangements. The Eddie Harris one in particular is super funky but fuzzed, a heavy groove with drum solo breakdown, well actually everybody gets a solo. Of the three originals, "Snowstorm" is actually smokin' hot, "The Light" a laidback wah'd out groove, and "Hovering Stones" the most proggy and changeable, ranging from frantic keyboard runs in lockstep with martial drumming to more blissed-out solo sections. If you liked that Supersister reissue we recently highlighted, we'd imagine you'd be into this too. Likewise of course if you dug the other, original Tetragon disc!
Garden Of Delights reissue cds are even more exhaustive than Lion's, this includes uber-detailed liner notes in both English and German, plus vintage photos, and even the cover art from every single recording that the members of Tetragon were ever later associated with, including jazz-rockers Passport and folksters Falkenstein.
MPEG Stream: "Snowstorm"
MPEG Stream: "Listen Here"

TETRAGON Stretch (Garden Of Delights) lp 34.00
Now available as a vinyl reissue too! What we said about GoD's cd edition a little whille back:
We highlighted the Lion Productions reissue of Nature, the (until now) sole album from way-cool, keyboard-heavy, progged-out krautrock obscurities Tetragon, just a few weeks ago, and now here's ANOTHER, entirely unreleased album from the same band, unearthed by krautrock specialists Garden Of Delights! If anything, this one's even more badass. Recorded live in the studio towards the end of 1971 (just a few months after Nature came out), these five tracks here meant for release on LP at the time, but that never happened, the efforts of Tetragon's four very talented musicians never getting the exposure they deserved back in they day (heck even the album that they did manage to get released was done in a VERY small pressing). Well it was 1971, so record buyers were presumably a bit overwhelmed. Still, Nature and now Stretch are worthy of being part of the class of '71, a year we consider one of the best ever in the history of recorded music - particularly of the psych/prog/kraut variety.
Stretch is all-instrumental, the band members just goin' off, doin' their thing, which was virtuoso, jazz-fusion inflected prog influenced by Miles Davis, The Nice and ELP, various Canterbury bands... and especially here, British jazz-rock organist Brian Auger. There's lots of solo action, as well as much precision ensemble playing. With wild widdly Hammond organ jamming, acid rock fuzz guitar, a heavy backbeat, and tons of technical chops, this simply cooks.
Of the 5 tracks on Stretch, which, um, stretch over 43 minutes, Tetragon do two covers: "Listen Here" by Eddie Harris and "Dragon Song" by John McLaughlin. Though perhaps as far as Tetragon were concerned, they were Brian Auger covers, 'cause their hero had previously done both of these songs on albums of his own, and Tetragon were inspired by his arrangements. The Eddie Harris one in particular is super funky but fuzzed, a heavy groove with drum solo breakdown, well actually everybody gets a solo. Of the three originals, "Snowstorm" is actually smokin' hot, "The Light" a laidback wah'd out groove, and "Hovering Stones" the most proggy and changeable, ranging from frantic keyboard runs in lockstep with martial drumming to more blissed-out solo sections. If you liked that Supersister reissue we recently highlighted, we'd imagine you'd be into this too. Likewise of course if you dug the other, original Tetragon disc!
MPEG Stream: "Snowstorm"
MPEG Stream: "Listen Here"

TETRAGRAMMATON Point of Convergence (Utech) cd 14.98
The latest batch from Utech is all excellent stuff (as usual), we're reviewing three this list, including the Locrian double disc (one of our Records Of The Week), the new Gog, and this, from Japan's Tetragrammaton.
The first thing one of the AQ Overlords here said when he heard this one is, if not entirely accurate, a good starting point for a description: "Sounds like a black metal Taj Mahal Travellers!" While it's NOT black metal, there's a menacing, mesmeric vibe here that some black metallers might appreciate. Possibly also some Buddhist monks, too. Part freeform psychedelic rock exploration, part dronological soundscapery, Tetragrammaton's Points Of Convergence is a beautiful and frightening trip into the void-dark expanses... that this trio is Tokyo-based is no surprise, seems like if Utech hadn't put this out, PSF should have. Band members TOMO, Cal Lyall, and Nobunaga Ken utilize a wide array of instruments to conjure up intense music that's both detailed and active, and droningly atmospheric: hurdy-gurdy, guitar, saxophone, crystal bowls, percussion, voices, Rhodes piano, hydrophone, gongs, drums, bells, bowls, taisho-koto...
Track one, "Disjecta Membra", begins as if recorded inside of a giant cauldron; echoing, haunting, with mysterious scrapings and billowing distortion, it builds up and up, over the course of 14+ minutes, spiralling into dense hypnotic drones, before a climax that takes the form of a free improv freakout, an electric tangle of guitar, sax, percussion... As quick as that erupts, it subsides, and track two, "Portrait Of Turab (Part I)" starts in with sustained bell tones, shimmering in the cauldron-blackness. Later still, the textural drones of "Sol de Paula" evoke all the awe of the 2001: A Space Odyssey monolith! And elsewhere watery textures and strange pipe-fighting percussion take center stage.
This unit's previous release, a double disc, was one of Julian Cope's Records Of The Month some time ago (btw, whatever happened to his Record Of The Month? the Head Heritage site hasn't been updated with one since the summer). If there's enough interest in this (which there should be!), perhaps we can import some of those, too.
The usual Utech packaging, nicely designed, slim sleeve, oversized. Lots of black.
MPEG Stream: "Disjecta Membra"
MPEG Stream: "Portrait Of Turab (Part I)"
MPEG Stream: "Sol de Paula"

TETRAULT, MARTIN / OTOMO, YOSHIHIDE 1. Grrr (Ambiances Magnetiques) cd 15.98
First in a planned trilogy of live recordings from this turntablist duo's Europe 2003 tour. Grrr 'cause it's noisy.

TETREAULT, MARTIN & OTOMO YOSHIHIDE 2. Tok (Ambiances Magnetiques) cd 15.98
More turntable strangulation from two masters of that very avant-garde (even today!) art form. Quebec's Martin Tetreault and Japan's Otomo Yoshihide (the latter of which, at least, should need no introduction to most AQ customers, known as he is far and wee for various projects, among them his famed Ground Zero band) have tangled before, and right away get down to business here, in a selection of live duo performances recorded on their tour of Europe in the Spring of 2003. Together they manifest an intriguing sound-world, liberating from old LPs variously sandpaper textures, helicoptering drone, and spluttering screams. Volume 2 of a planned trilogy, 2. Tok concentrates on their most "fragmented" improvs of the tour. We didn't review it, but we do also have the first volume, 1. Grr, so-named as it's devoted to what the duo deemed their noisiest material.
MPEG Stream: "Nijmegen No. 4a"
MPEG Stream: "Lyon No. 3"

TETREAULT, MARTIN & OTOMO YOSHIHIDE 21 Situations (Dame) cd 15.98
THIS IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT OR OTHERWISE UNAVAILABLE TO US AT THE MOMENT, SO PLEASE DO NOT ORDER IT. SORRY.
"An electromechanic meeting around turntables. 21 improvisational settings dealing with science fiction, education, jungle, cartoons and 17 other surprising themes!" says the top-obi. From Quebec and Japan, respectively, Tetreault and Yoshihide (of Ground Zero fame among other things), certainly don't sound like conventional DJs as they positively torture the vinyl on their turntables.