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== History ==
== History ==
The group released its debut album, ''[[World Downfall]]'', in 1989.<ref name="LarkinHM">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Heavy Metal]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1995|edition=Second|isbn=0-85112-656-1|page=357}}</ref> It is seen as one of the classics of early grindcore.<ref>[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r19881|pure_url=yes}} World Downfall – Terrorizer | AllMusic<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> An album containing two rehearsal sessions of the band from 1987 was released in 2003.


=== Early history and first disbandment (1985–1988) ===
The band split when [[David Vincent (musician)|David Vincent]] offered [[Pete Sandoval]] to be a member of [[Morbid Angel]], while Pintado joined [[Napalm Death]]; Sandoval saw Terrorizer stagnating, while Morbid Angel and Napalm Death at the time were rapidly gaining popularity. As a result, only Garcia remained; Garcia claims not to have talked to Sandoval since.<ref name="sttg">{{Cite web| title = Slave to the Grind | publisher = Death by Digital| year = 2019 | url = https://reelhouse.org/deathbydigital/slave-to-the-grind/slave-to-the-grind }}</ref>
In 1985, after a brief stint in a band called Majesty, Oscar Garcia began searching around the [[Los Angeles]] area for musicians he could form a band with which he could front as both a vocalist and guitarist.{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|p=59}} Garcia first met guitarist [[Jesse Pintado]], and after helping each other with their guitar skills, the two formed a [[thrash metal]] band known as Unknown Death.{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|p=59}}<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Ramadier |first=Laurent |date=2012 |title=Terrorizer |url=https://www.voicesfromthedarkside.de/interview/terrorizer/ |access-date=2023-07-12 |website=Voices From The Darkside |language=en}}</ref> Afterwards, Garcia and Pintado recruited bassist Alfred "Garvey" Estrada and a drummer [[Mononym|mononymously]] known as "Fish".{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|pp=59–60}} Initially taking inspiration from thrash metal acts such as [[Slayer]] and [[Celtic Frost]],{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|p=59}} Garcia and Pintado would soon decide to take Unknown Death in a faster direction, after Pintado received a [[Demo (music)|demo tape]] featuring what would become the [[A-side and B-side|A-side]] to [[Napalm Death]]'s ''[[Scum (Napalm Death album)|Scum]]'' (1987).{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|pp=60, 62}} Garcia recalled: "I remember one day, [Pintado] said, 'Check this out'. And when I listened to it for the first time, I called him and said, 'That's it that's the way I wanna play'."{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|pp=60, 62}} Fish was unable to play to the speeds that Garcia and Pintado wanted, and he soon left the band.{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|pp=60, 62}} Upon the recommendation of a friend, drummer [[Pete Sandoval]] auditioned for Unknown Death and was instantly hired. "The first beat that [Sandoval] played was a superfast beat, and when we heard that, Jesse and I looked at each other and we looked at Pete, and we were like, 'Hey man, you wanna join this band?' And he said, 'You guys haven't seen me play.' And I said, 'We've heard enough'."{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|p=62}} Sandoval's drumming style complimented Unknown Death's older songs, and Garcia felt that "everything just started to click" musically when he joined the band.{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|p=59}}<ref name=":5" /> Unknown Death soon changed their name to Decomposed, and then to Terrorizer, after a song of the same name by [[Master (American band)|Master]].{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|p=59}}<ref name=":5" />


Having attainted a stable line-up, Terrorizer began playing around the Los Angeles area, performing their first show at the Hoover Recreation Centre on March 21, 1987.<ref name=":5" /> The band released four rehearsal/demo tapes during 1987 that were circulated throughout the underground [[Tape trading|tape-trading]] scene.<ref name=":5" />{{#tag:ref|Terrorizer demo chronology:<ref name=":5" />{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
In early 2005, it was rumored that Terrorizer were to reform with their original line-up; however, only Pintado and Sandoval returned. The band released its second studio album ''[[Darker Days Ahead]]'' in August 2006 on [[Century Media Records]]. Tony Norman joined on guitar and bass and Anthony Rezhawk joined as the new vocalist. Pintado had been recording and playing shows with Rezhawk's band Resistant Culture and asked him to join Terrorizer. In the week of the album's release, Pintado died due to complications arising from liver failure.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/1510/5626/%09%09%09Terrorizer.html|title=The Gauntlet – Jesse Pintado's Family Comments On His Passing|website=Thegauntlet.com|access-date=November 25, 2019}}</ref>
*1st demo (''Nightmares''): January 24, 1987
*2nd demo (''Demo '87''): April 25, 1987
*3rd demo: August 22, 1987
*4th demo (split w/ Nausea): December 1987
}} These demos were officially released in 2014 through the [[Terrorizer LA]] compilation ''Before the Downfall''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=F.O.A.D. Records » Blog Archive » TERRORIZER (L.A.) “Before the downfall 1987/1989″ 2xLP+CD and double digipack CD out now!! |url=https://www.foadrecords.com/index.php/terrorizer-l-a-before-the-downfall-19871989-2xlpcd-and-double-digipack-cd-out-now/ |access-date=2023-07-12}}</ref>|group=N}} Terrorizer were limited to performing in small venues or at backyard parties for most of their initial existence,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pratt |first=Greg |date=2016-06-09 |title=That Tour Was Awesome: Grindcrusher UK, Napalm Death, Morbid Angel, Bolt Thrower, Carcass (1989) |url=https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2016/06/09/that-tour-was-awesome-grindcrusher-uk-1989/ |access-date=2023-07-19 |website=Decibel Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> and struggled to attract record label interest due to the speed and intensity of their music, which made them unappealing to both the [[Heavy metal subculture|heavy metal]] and [[Punk rock in California|punk rock]] audiences of the Los Angeles area.{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|pp=62, 65}} In the summer of 1988, with both interest in and activity within Terrorizer waning, Sandoval was presented with the opportunity to join the Florida-based [[death metal]] band [[Morbid Angel]] by the band's bassist, [[David Vincent (musician)|David Vincent]].{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|p=85}}{{Sfn|Vincent|McIver|2020|pp=46–47}}{{#tag:ref|Sandoval came to the attention of Morbid Angel after the band's guitarist, Trey Azagthoth, received one of Terrorizer's demo tapes. Vincent used his tape-trading contacts with Pintado to reach out to him with the offer.{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|p=85}}{{Sfn|Vincent|McIver|2020|pp=46–47}}{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|p=65}}|group=N}} He would subsequently announce to the other members of Terrorizer during a band rehearsal with new bassist Carlos Reveles (who Garcia had played with back in Majesty) that he was leaving to join Morbid Angel, resulting in their disbandment.{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|p=65}} Garcia recalled of Sandoval's departure: "At the time I thought we [Terrorizer] were just about ready to do an album. Then one day out of the blue at a practice, Pete just busted out saying that he was leaving the band and that he was moving out of state. And that was pretty much it for us then. It was like we never had a chance."{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|p=65}}

=== ''World Downfall'' and second disbandment (1989–2004) ===
In early 1989, whilst he was in [[England]] delivering the master tapes of Morbid Angel's debut album ''[[Altars of Madness]]'' to the offices of [[Earache Records]], David Vincent discussed Terrorizer with the label's founder, [[Digby Pearson]].{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|pp=157–158}}{{Sfn|Vincent|McIver|2020|pp=68–69}} Pearson told Vincent that Terrorizer had been signed to Earache before Morbid Angel were, but that he had struggled to get the band to record an album due to its members being based in differing locations.{{Sfn|Vincent|McIver|2020|p=69}} Vincent subsequently offered to regroup Terrorizer to record an album, should Earache be interested in releasing one.{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|pp=157–158}}{{Sfn|Vincent|McIver|2020|p=69}} In April 1989, Garcia and Pintado travelled to [[Tampa, Florida]], where both Vincent and Sandoval were based, to record ''World Downfall''.<ref name=":5" /> After two weeks of "[rehearsing] all the songs like crazy" to make them sound as tight as they could be (according to Vincent),{{Sfn|Vincent|McIver|2020|p=69}} Terrorizer recorded and mixed the album in the space of three days at [[Morrisound Recording]] with engineer [[Scott Burns (record producer)|Scott Burns]].<ref name=":5" />{{Sfn|Vincent|McIver|2020|p=69}}{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|p=158}} Because Terrorizer did not have a bassist at the time and because Pintado and Garcia did not have any bass equipment, Vincent would end up playing bass on the album.<ref name=":5" />{{Sfn|Mudrian|2004|p=158}} Although he is credited as both the producer of ''World Downfall'' and Terrorizer's bassist in the album's [[liner notes]],<ref name="WDLiners">{{Cite AV media notes |title=World Downfall |people=[[Terrorizer (band)|Terrorizer]] |year=1989 |type=booklet |publisher=[[Earache Records]] |id=MOSH 16}}</ref> Vincent later claimed that he "just played on the record" and was not an official member of the band (at that point).{{Sfn|Vincent|McIver|2020|p=69}}

''World Downfall'' was released via Earache on November 13, 1989.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Downfall, by Terrorizer |url=https://terrorizer-band.bandcamp.com/album/world-downfall |access-date=2023-07-31 |website=[[Bandcamp]] |language=en}}</ref> It has retrospectively been seen as one of the classics of early [[grindcore]].<ref>[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r19881|pure_url=yes}} World Downfall – Terrorizer | AllMusic<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Shortly before the album's release, Pintado left Terrorizer to join [[Napalm Death]], before the start of the band's Grindcrusher Tour in November 1989.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |last=Pratt |first=Greg |date=2016-06-09 |title=That Tour Was Awesome: Grindcrusher UK, Napalm Death, Morbid Angel, Bolt Thrower, Carcass (1989) |url=https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2016/06/09/that-tour-was-awesome-grindcrusher-uk-1989/ |access-date=2023-07-18 |website=Decibel Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> With Vincent and Sandoval refocusing their attention on Morbid Angel, who were also participating in the Grindcrusher Tour as a supporting act (along with [[Carcass (band)|Carcass]] and [[Bolt Thrower]]), Terrorizer disbanded for a second time.<ref name=":7" />{{Sfn|Vincent|McIver|2020|p=70}} Garcia subsequently returned to his other band, Nausea.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last= |date=2012-11-26 |editor-last=Johnson |editor-first=Richard |title=Nausea interview with Oscar Garcia |url=https://disposableunderground.com/nausea-interview/ |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=Disposable Underground |language=en-US}}</ref> In the 2018 documentary film ''Slave to the Grind: A Film About Grindcore'' (2018), Sandoval said of Terrorizer's disbandment:<blockquote>"There was not a lot of interest in Terrorizer, and plus, these other bands, for us, were big bands, y'know. Morbid Angel, they had like, a beginning of a history, you know what I mean? So it was something cool, nice for me to join. And then Napalm Death, another big band... so it was what it was supposed to be, man."{{sfn|Brown|2018|loc=23:03–23:31}}</blockquote>Morbid Angel would later incorporate the ''World Downfall'' track "Dead Shall Rise" into their setlists during their tours in support of ''[[Blessed Are the Sick]]'' (1991), which Vincent said the band were happy to do as "half of Morbid Angel had been in Terrorizer".{{Sfn|Vincent|McIver|2020|p=70}} Although Terrorizer were still under contract for another album with Earache, attempts to make another album with the ''World Downfall'' line-up of the band were unsuccessful due to its members' conflicting schedules.<ref name=":5" />{{sfn|Brown|2018|loc=23:45–23:56}} Garcia claims not to have talked to Sandoval since Terrorizer's disbandment.{{Sfn|Brown|2018}}

=== Later history and albums (2005–2023) ===
In 2005, after leaving Napalm Death, Pintado agreed to reform Terrorizer with Sandoval to release another album, ''[[Darker Days Ahead]]'', through [[Century Media Records]] in August 2006. Garcia declined to join the reunion due to creative differences with Pintado, who wanted him to leave Nausea—he was subsequently replaced by Anthony Rezhawk.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=MetalSucks |date=2012-03-15 |title=Exclusive Interview: Pete Sandoval on the Return of Terrorizer, Morbid Angel's Illud Divinum Insanus, and More |url=https://www.metalsucks.net/2012/03/15/exclusive-interview-pete-sandoval-on-the-return-of-terrorizer-morbid-angels-illud-divinum-insanus-and-more/ |access-date=2023-07-19 |website=MetalSucks |language=en}}</ref> Tony Norman also joined the band on guitar and bass; Pintado had been recording and playing shows with Rezhawk's band Resistant Culture and asked him to join Terrorizer. Pintado would die five days after the album's release due to [[liver failure]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=September 14, 2020 |title=Napalm Death's Barney Greenway Reflects on Passing of Jesse Pintado: 'I Miss Him' |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/napalm-deaths-barney-greenway-reflects-on-passing-of-jesse-pintado-i-miss-him/ |access-date=July 5, 2022 |website=[[Blabbermouth.net]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Gauntlet – Jesse Pintado's Family Comments On His Passing |url=http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/1510/5626/%09%09%09Terrorizer.html |access-date=November 25, 2019 |website=Thegauntlet.com}}</ref>


In 2009, Terrorizer released a new demo track, "Hordes of Zombies", on its MySpace page.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blabbermouth.net/news/terrorizer-new-demo-track-posted-online/|title=TERRORIZER: New Demo Track Posted Online|date=June 3, 2009|website=Blabbermouth.net|access-date=November 25, 2019}}</ref> In June 2011, Terrorizer signed to [[Season of Mist]], and released its third album, ''[[Hordes of Zombies]]'', on February 28, 2012.<ref>[http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=74198 Terrorizer Completes New Album "Hordes Of Zombies"], Metalunderground.com</ref> Resistant Culture guitarist Katina Culture replaced Pintado and David Vincent rejoined on bass.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/terrorizer-signs-with-season-of-mist-new-album-in-the-works/|title=TERRORIZER Signs With SEASON OF MIST; New Album In The Works|website=[[Blabbermouth.net]]|date=June 15, 2011 }}</ref>
In 2009, Terrorizer released a new demo track, "Hordes of Zombies", on its MySpace page.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blabbermouth.net/news/terrorizer-new-demo-track-posted-online/|title=TERRORIZER: New Demo Track Posted Online|date=June 3, 2009|website=Blabbermouth.net|access-date=November 25, 2019}}</ref> In June 2011, Terrorizer signed to [[Season of Mist]], and released its third album, ''[[Hordes of Zombies]]'', on February 28, 2012.<ref>[http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=74198 Terrorizer Completes New Album "Hordes Of Zombies"], Metalunderground.com</ref> Resistant Culture guitarist Katina Culture replaced Pintado and David Vincent rejoined on bass.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/terrorizer-signs-with-season-of-mist-new-album-in-the-works/|title=TERRORIZER Signs With SEASON OF MIST; New Album In The Works|website=[[Blabbermouth.net]]|date=June 15, 2011 }}</ref>
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== Bibliography ==
* {{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeTVUBn0JnU |title=Slave to the Grind: A Film About Grindcore |date=March 19, 2020 |type=Motion picture |publisher=Death by Digital |place=United States |orig-date=First published 2018 |access-date=July 9, 2023 |ref={{harvid|Brown|2018}} |via=[[YouTube]] |people=Brown, Doug Robert (director)}}
* {{Cite book |last=Mudrian |first=Albert |url= |title=Choosing Death : The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore |title-link=Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore |publisher=[[Feral House]] |year=2004 |isbn=1-932595-04-X |edition=1st |location=US |language=}}
* {{Cite book |last=Vincent |first=David |title=I Am Morbid: Ten Lessons Learned From Extreme Metal, Outlaw Country, And The Power Of Self-Determination |last2=McIver |first2=Joel |publisher=Jawbone Press |year=2020 |isbn=978-1911036555 |author-link=David Vincent (musician) |author-link2=Joel McIver}}


==External links==
==External links==

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For the UK-based extreme music magazine, see Terrorizer (magazine). For other uses, see Terrorizer (disambiguation).
Terrorizer
OriginLos Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres
Years active
  • 1986–1989
  • 2005–2006
  • 2009–2023
Labels
Past membersPete Sandoval
Sam Molina
Lee Harrison
Oscar Garcia
Jesse Pintado
Alfred "Garvey" Estrada
Tony Norman
Anthony Rezhawk
Katina Culture
David Vincent
Websiteterrorizergrindcore.net

Terrorizer was an American grindcore band formed in 1986 in Los Angeles, California.[2]

History

Early history and first disbandment (1985–1988)

In 1985, after a brief stint in a band called Majesty, Oscar Garcia began searching around the Los Angeles area for musicians he could form a band with which he could front as both a vocalist and guitarist.[3] Garcia first met guitarist Jesse Pintado, and after helping each other with their guitar skills, the two formed a thrash metal band known as Unknown Death.[3][4] Afterwards, Garcia and Pintado recruited bassist Alfred "Garvey" Estrada and a drummer mononymously known as "Fish".[5] Initially taking inspiration from thrash metal acts such as Slayer and Celtic Frost,[3] Garcia and Pintado would soon decide to take Unknown Death in a faster direction, after Pintado received a demo tape featuring what would become the A-side to Napalm Death's Scum (1987).[6] Garcia recalled: "I remember one day, [Pintado] said, 'Check this out'. And when I listened to it for the first time, I called him and said, 'That's it that's the way I wanna play'."[6] Fish was unable to play to the speeds that Garcia and Pintado wanted, and he soon left the band.[6] Upon the recommendation of a friend, drummer Pete Sandoval auditioned for Unknown Death and was instantly hired. "The first beat that [Sandoval] played was a superfast beat, and when we heard that, Jesse and I looked at each other and we looked at Pete, and we were like, 'Hey man, you wanna join this band?' And he said, 'You guys haven't seen me play.' And I said, 'We've heard enough'."[7] Sandoval's drumming style complimented Unknown Death's older songs, and Garcia felt that "everything just started to click" musically when he joined the band.[3][4] Unknown Death soon changed their name to Decomposed, and then to Terrorizer, after a song of the same name by Master.[3][4]

Having attainted a stable line-up, Terrorizer began playing around the Los Angeles area, performing their first show at the Hoover Recreation Centre on March 21, 1987.[4] The band released four rehearsal/demo tapes during 1987 that were circulated throughout the underground tape-trading scene.[4][N 1] Terrorizer were limited to performing in small venues or at backyard parties for most of their initial existence,[9] and struggled to attract record label interest due to the speed and intensity of their music, which made them unappealing to both the heavy metal and punk rock audiences of the Los Angeles area.[10] In the summer of 1988, with both interest in and activity within Terrorizer waning, Sandoval was presented with the opportunity to join the Florida-based death metal band Morbid Angel by the band's bassist, David Vincent.[11][12][N 2] He would subsequently announce to the other members of Terrorizer during a band rehearsal with new bassist Carlos Reveles (who Garcia had played with back in Majesty) that he was leaving to join Morbid Angel, resulting in their disbandment.[13] Garcia recalled of Sandoval's departure: "At the time I thought we [Terrorizer] were just about ready to do an album. Then one day out of the blue at a practice, Pete just busted out saying that he was leaving the band and that he was moving out of state. And that was pretty much it for us then. It was like we never had a chance."[13]

World Downfall and second disbandment (1989–2004)

In early 1989, whilst he was in England delivering the master tapes of Morbid Angel's debut album Altars of Madness to the offices of Earache Records, David Vincent discussed Terrorizer with the label's founder, Digby Pearson.[14][15] Pearson told Vincent that Terrorizer had been signed to Earache before Morbid Angel were, but that he had struggled to get the band to record an album due to its members being based in differing locations.[16] Vincent subsequently offered to regroup Terrorizer to record an album, should Earache be interested in releasing one.[14][16] In April 1989, Garcia and Pintado travelled to Tampa, Florida, where both Vincent and Sandoval were based, to record World Downfall.[4] After two weeks of "[rehearsing] all the songs like crazy" to make them sound as tight as they could be (according to Vincent),[16] Terrorizer recorded and mixed the album in the space of three days at Morrisound Recording with engineer Scott Burns.[4][16][17] Because Terrorizer did not have a bassist at the time and because Pintado and Garcia did not have any bass equipment, Vincent would end up playing bass on the album.[4][17] Although he is credited as both the producer of World Downfall and Terrorizer's bassist in the album's liner notes,[18] Vincent later claimed that he "just played on the record" and was not an official member of the band (at that point).[16]

World Downfall was released via Earache on November 13, 1989.[19] It has retrospectively been seen as one of the classics of early grindcore.[20] Shortly before the album's release, Pintado left Terrorizer to join Napalm Death, before the start of the band's Grindcrusher Tour in November 1989.[21] With Vincent and Sandoval refocusing their attention on Morbid Angel, who were also participating in the Grindcrusher Tour as a supporting act (along with Carcass and Bolt Thrower), Terrorizer disbanded for a second time.[21][22] Garcia subsequently returned to his other band, Nausea.[23] In the 2018 documentary film Slave to the Grind: A Film About Grindcore (2018), Sandoval said of Terrorizer's disbandment:

"There was not a lot of interest in Terrorizer, and plus, these other bands, for us, were big bands, y'know. Morbid Angel, they had like, a beginning of a history, you know what I mean? So it was something cool, nice for me to join. And then Napalm Death, another big band... so it was what it was supposed to be, man."[24]

Morbid Angel would later incorporate the World Downfall track "Dead Shall Rise" into their setlists during their tours in support of Blessed Are the Sick (1991), which Vincent said the band were happy to do as "half of Morbid Angel had been in Terrorizer".[22] Although Terrorizer were still under contract for another album with Earache, attempts to make another album with the World Downfall line-up of the band were unsuccessful due to its members' conflicting schedules.[4][25] Garcia claims not to have talked to Sandoval since Terrorizer's disbandment.[26]

Later history and albums (2005–2023)

In 2005, after leaving Napalm Death, Pintado agreed to reform Terrorizer with Sandoval to release another album, Darker Days Ahead, through Century Media Records in August 2006. Garcia declined to join the reunion due to creative differences with Pintado, who wanted him to leave Nausea—he was subsequently replaced by Anthony Rezhawk.[23][27] Tony Norman also joined the band on guitar and bass; Pintado had been recording and playing shows with Rezhawk's band Resistant Culture and asked him to join Terrorizer. Pintado would die five days after the album's release due to liver failure.[28][29]

In 2009, Terrorizer released a new demo track, "Hordes of Zombies", on its MySpace page.[30] In June 2011, Terrorizer signed to Season of Mist, and released its third album, Hordes of Zombies, on February 28, 2012.[31] Resistant Culture guitarist Katina Culture replaced Pintado and David Vincent rejoined on bass.[32]

In November 2012, Sandoval announced that Terrorizer started writing new material for their next album.[33] The fourth album Caustic Attack was released in 2018 under The End Records.[34]

On August 9, 2021, Earache Records announced a new worldwide record deal with Terrorizer, as well as revealing that a new album was in the works.[35]

On January 22, 2023, Sandoval announced the split of Terrorizer and would shift his attention to his other band I Am Morbid.[36]

Terrorizer LA

Main article: Terrorizer LA

In 2014, Oscar Garcia was invited by Jesse Pintado's sister to put together a new lineup of Terrorizer (his version known as Terrorizer LA or TLA) for a festival celebrating what would have been Jesse Pintado's 45th birthday.[37][38] He asked fellow Nausea member Leon del Muerte (Murder Construct) to play guitar, and shortly afterward Cosmo Reveles, Rick Cortez (Sadistic Intent) and Mike Caffell (Dreaming Dead, Exhausted Prayer) were recruited to fill out the band. The band continues to play under the Terrorizer LA name.

Before The Downfall, a collection of demos and unreleased material, was released by FOAD Records in 2015.

Band members

Timeline

Discography

Studio albums
Split releases
  • Terrorizer / Nausea (1988)
Demos
  • Nightmares (1987)
  • Demo '87 (1988)

References

Notes

  1. ^ Terrorizer demo chronology:[4]
    • 1st demo (Nightmares): January 24, 1987
    • 2nd demo (Demo '87): April 25, 1987
    • 3rd demo: August 22, 1987
    • 4th demo (split w/ Nausea): December 1987
    These demos were officially released in 2014 through the Terrorizer LA compilation Before the Downfall.[8]
  2. ^ Sandoval came to the attention of Morbid Angel after the band's guitarist, Trey Azagthoth, received one of Terrorizer's demo tapes. Vincent used his tape-trading contacts with Pintado to reach out to him with the offer.[11][12][13]

Citations

  1. ^ "Metal and Hardcore 2012: The Year of Grindcore". Exclaim.ca.
  2. ^ Terrorizer | AllMusic
  3. ^ a b c d e Mudrian 2004, p. 59.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Ramadier, Laurent (2012). "Terrorizer". Voices From The Darkside. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  5. ^ Mudrian 2004, pp. 59–60.
  6. ^ a b c Mudrian 2004, pp. 60, 62.
  7. ^ Mudrian 2004, p. 62.
  8. ^ "F.O.A.D. Records » Blog Archive » TERRORIZER (L.A.) "Before the downfall 1987/1989″ 2xLP+CD and double digipack CD out now!!". Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  9. ^ Pratt, Greg (June 9, 2016). "That Tour Was Awesome: Grindcrusher UK, Napalm Death, Morbid Angel, Bolt Thrower, Carcass (1989)". Decibel Magazine. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
  10. ^ Mudrian 2004, pp. 62, 65.
  11. ^ a b Mudrian 2004, p. 85.
  12. ^ a b Vincent & McIver 2020, pp. 46–47.
  13. ^ a b c Mudrian 2004, p. 65.
  14. ^ a b Mudrian 2004, pp. 157–158.
  15. ^ Vincent & McIver 2020, pp. 68–69.
  16. ^ a b c d e Vincent & McIver 2020, p. 69.
  17. ^ a b Mudrian 2004, p. 158.
  18. ^ Terrorizer (1989). World Downfall (booklet). Earache Records. MOSH 16.
  19. ^ "World Downfall, by Terrorizer". Bandcamp. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
  20. ^ World Downfall – Terrorizer | AllMusic
  21. ^ a b Pratt, Greg (June 9, 2016). "That Tour Was Awesome: Grindcrusher UK, Napalm Death, Morbid Angel, Bolt Thrower, Carcass (1989)". Decibel Magazine. Retrieved July 18, 2023.
  22. ^ a b Vincent & McIver 2020, p. 70.
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