Darker Days Ahead
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| Studio album from Terrorizer | ||||
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Publication |
August 21, 2006 |
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| Label (s) | Century Media | |||
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12 |
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running time |
39min 25s |
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Juan Gonzales |
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Studio (s) |
DOW Studio |
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Darker Days Ahead is the second studio album by the American band Terrorizer . It was released 17 years after the debut album World Downfall , which is considered a milestone in Grindcore . With Darker Days Ahead , the band changed their musical direction from classic grindcore to deathgrind .
Emergence
After the release of the 1989 debut album, guitarist Jesse Pintado devoted himself more to his main band Napalm Death , while drummer Pete Sandoval and bassist David Vincent focused on Morbid Angel . Singer Oscar Garcia, on the other hand, turned his back on music, devoted himself to work and family. Nonetheless, Pintado and Sandoval stayed in contact, jamming old pieces by Terrorizer and writing new material. By the mid-2000s, enough pieces had come together for a full album. The line- up of Terrorizer was completed with singers Anthony Rezhawk ( Resistant Culture ) and Tony Norman (ex- Monstrosity ). After negotiations with various record labels, Century Media and Terrorizer announced the conclusion of a record deal in early 2006 and announced the album for the summer of 2006. The recordings for the album took place in Morrisound place, but on the DOW studio in Florida and was designed by Juan Gonzales (u. A. Morbid Angel, Christian Death ) produced .
In addition to new tracks, the album features newly recorded versions of demos such as Mayhem , Crematorium and Fallout , the original versions of which, in Pintado's opinion, were so badly received that the band wanted to present them on the album in a contemporary sound. Also located on the album is a new recording of the already World Downfall represented Dead Shall Rise . The new songs created for the album were written by Jesse Pintado and Pete Sandoval. Just a few days after Darker Days Ahead was released , Pintado passed away on August 27, 2006.
Reviews
The album was received mostly positively. Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia certified that the album would not disappoint any fan of the debut and that it represented a kind of Grindcore lesson for new listeners. Frank Albrecht from Rock Hard wrote that with Darker Days Ahead Terrorizer managed to "come as close as possible to the overwork of 1989". He describes the music as a mixture of the simple Death Metal of bands like Massacre , the technical finesse of Morbid Angel and the grindcore of Napalm Death. Michael Edele from laut.de said that the album was in no way inferior to the classic World Downfall , but also wrote that the album was not bad, but also "somehow unnecessary". Twilight Magazine was similarly critical and wrote that when listening to the album, disillusionment quickly set in, although Darker Days Ahead was “without a doubt a great Death Metal / Crindcore record”, but the “uncompromising freshness” of the debut album was missing.
Track list
- Inevitable [intro] - 1:03
- Darker Days Ahead - 3:46
- Crematorium - 3:54
- Fallout - 3:48
- Doomed Forever - 3:23
- Mayhem - 3:57
- Blind Army - 3:06
- Nightmare - 3:42
- Legacy of Brutality - 2:25
- Dead Shall Rise V.06 - 3:32
- Victim of Greed - 4:11
- Ghost Train [outro] - 2:35
Web links
- Darker Days Ahead at Allmusic (English)
Remarks
- ↑ a b Terrorizer interview. Twilight Magazine, August 15, 2006, accessed April 13, 2012 .
- ↑ Terrorizer: The legendary Terrorizers sign with Century Media Records. Century Media, January 9, 2006, accessed April 13, 2012 .
- ^ Frank Albrecht: Terrorizer - Darker Days Ahead. Rock Hard # 232, accessed April 13, 2012 .
- ↑ Michael Edele: Sometimes they come back: the return of the death metal legend. laut.de, accessed on April 13, 2012 .
- ↑ Terrorizer / Darker Days Ahead. Twilight Magazine, accessed April 13, 2012 .