Early Earache releases are prized by extreme metal fans for being classics of the genre, and World Downfall is no exception. It's sort of a rabid proto-death/proto-crust vomit-grunt. The Terrorizer that most people know and love to this day was an ‘after the fact’ funnel of the best ideas from that bank of songwriting between ’86 and ’88 with some additional songs pulled from Nausea and refined in the form of ‘World Downfall’ (1989). It even hearkens back to their genre defining debut, World Downfall. 5.0 out of 5 stars Avatara's review of Terrorizer "World Downfall". Terrorizer‘s World Downfall was a one-off project by members of Napalm Death and Morbid Angel, which went on to become a seminal, timeless classic and helped shape the “grind” scene for years to come. In any grindcore top ten this will always appear in the top 5 somewhere, and it’s easy to understand why – I mean Jesus, in grindcore circles, this thing is second only to “Scum” and “Horrified” in terms of influence. The production is curiously dry and flat, making everything sound weirdly homogenous...for me, truly great grind should sound chaotic and insane with anger, as if it’d take any amount of punishment just for a 5 second window of opportunity where it could rip your spine out. So yeah, Terrorizer wasn't around for too long, then of course the ultimate death of Jesse will never have them remain as a band. The linup is completed by Jesse Pintado (later to join the godly Napalm Death) on guitar, riffing like a demon, and Pete Sandoval (also of Morbid Angel) on drums, managing to be amazingly speedy without sacrificing technicality. Back in 1989 the first album “World Downfall” was released and it can be considered, in my opinion the best death/grind album ever. The vocals are low and fit perfectly with the guitar tone and overall speed and urgency. Pete at the drums, with his perfect blast beats, is unbelievable, fast as a train for the period. CHARTS. Too bad that Terrorizer broke the silence after 17 years. It’s become really clear to me why most Grindcore doesn’t do it for me while Terrorizer kicks ass. The clearly structured eruptions of hatred appear as an unstoppable avalanche that buries everything beneath it. Verified Purchase. Released 13 November 1989 on Earache (catalog no. 1. Before 'World Downfall', Grindcore as a genre was often dismissed as noise because it was often poorly executed, and always badly produced. I … Definitely worth checking out and an album where you can hear the grind riffs totally, the drums by Pete don't drown out the music. The material scores with its genre-typical uniformity, this is my interpretation. Ultimately, the only thing truly challenging about this album is trying to determine whether it is a grind album or just simply a pure death metal assault minus the guitar solos, particularly given how much the former impacted the evolution of the latter throughout the 90s. I might do it for another week. The German bands were pushing the limits with their spastic approach to the genre, and then there are the proto-death metal bands, but there were also those crazy bunch of punks in the UK who really loved their hardcore punk, but much like the thrash acts, they needed something more extreme. The absolute Granddaddies of Grind; Terrorizer are set to release their Caustic Attack upon the world, October 12th through The End Records. But these days, is it still the same classic that it was when it came out? He was more than capable as a guitarist to really put out some really awesome riffs. The production is amazing, sincerely one of the few decent old school Grind production I’ve ever heard, if not the only one. This album does and will continue to prove to legions of metalheads that grindcore has a permanent place in metal and can't always be taken lightly. Terrorizer - World Downfall Review. It’s both a great piece of grind in its own right, but it also set a new precedent for precision and technical competence within this proudly punk genre. Pintado has, at the same time, a strong and raw guitar sound with typical hardcore and death influences in it. World Downfall is by far my favorite Grindcore album of the 80’s. Back in 1989, it was a great adventure to discover "World Downfall". "World Downfall" is the perfect album for those that are new to, or want to give grindcore a chance as it is definitely the pinnacle of the entire genre and can only be rivaled by Repulsion's masterpiece "Horrified," but that discussion is for another day. You can hear everything that’s going on happening in an orderly fashion...and that’s just not right, because at no point do you end up staring at the speakers wondering what the hell it was that just fucking happened - World Downfall is missing the “what the fuck?!? This album is probably the best grindcore album ever. His grunts are clear enough to be understood, yet ferocious enough to make emo kids recoil in shock. was them morphing, with metal riffs, political outrage, insane speed, but then they fumbled the ball. The riffing is relentless, but truly exceptional in that Pintado doesn't need to play at light speed to be effective. Sign Up Sign In Hi, Member since Balance Plan: … With one foot in hardcore punk and one foot in death metal, it’s influence can be felt far beyond the obvious. The drums (Pete Sandoval, recorded in transition just as he was joining Morbid Angel) are pure Dave Lombardo on helium with full knowledge and mastery of the Repulsion/Napalm Death method of grindcraft. Dare I be the first to not relentlessly fellate this album? Pig Destroyer’s “Prowler In The Yard” has the what the fuck?!? Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm. World Downfall is by far my favorite Grindcore album of the 80’s. With a previously almost unknown intransigence, they ripped any type of harmonies to pieces. The sound is strong, clean and you can hear each instruments very well: crushing guitars, bone jarring bass, bulldozer drums and sick vocals. There are not 20 seconds songs and every track has a refrain that captures you, so as to mark out each one of them. Despite every song sounding rather similar with the same pattern of midpaced riffs that could break even George "Corpsegrinder's" tree-trunk of a neck and some highly thrashy riffs pushed to the limit by Sandoval's intense and relentless drumming, every song is memorable and manages to stand out. The same thing can be said of Terrorizer – influential, fuck yeah. To begin, the production is excellent. Pintado and Sandoval play together like separated siamese twins. Every beat of the entire album is executed with absolute precision. Terrorizer - World Downfall Review. They went more and more into metal territory, and their metal records are all terrible. This album lacks that sense of chaos and blitzkrieg fury. factor. That's really the beauty of this album; in spite of all the sonic chaos and battling between the guitars and drums for prominence, an unshakable balance is established through the mix, resulting in something that is arguably the best production job for an extreme album in the entirety of the 80s. Released in November 1989 on Earache (catalog no. No other "grind" albums save "Horrified" even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence. 16 tracks under 40 minutes (not falling under than 1 minute or being longer than 4 minutes) and NO fillers. A lot of faster tempos which are characteristic of these kinds of bands. Was its name the impulse for Jesse Pintado (R.I.P.) Fear Of Napalm 4. The death/grind is reminiscent of Napalm Death's 'From Enslavement To Obliteration' and 'Scum', not surprising that they recruited him as guitarist on their future releases, ND I'm referring to. World Downfall Jimi Hendrix is hugely influential. Terrorizer are stuck in a mindset where simple heaviness and speed are able to trump well thought out songwriting with 2006’s Darker Days Ahead falling into the trap as well. So yeah, I enjoyed the music the most, it was variety and worth listening to. Terrorizer - World Downfall Earache 1989 Oscar Garcia - Vocals Jesse Pintado - Guitars Pete Sandoval - Drums David Vincent - Bass 01 After World Obliteration 03:30 02 Storm of Stress 01:27 03 Fear of Napalm 03:02 04 Human Prey 02:08 05 Corporation Pull-In 02:21 06 Strategic Warheads 01:38 07 Condemned System 01:23 30 years old and not a bit tired: Congratulations! BAND-MAID / Warning! It has directly or indirectly influenced just about every grindcore band that formed after it’s release, so anyone who is into grind owes it to Terrorizer to purchase this album anyway. It's a genre where vocals are more an instrument than a medium for delivering lyrics. MOSH 16; Vinyl LP). However, don't let their ignorance mislead you. Genres: Deathgrind, Grindcore. Everything about it, from the vocals to the production, is absolutely faultless. World Downfall Terrorizer. So kultig wie diese TERRORIZER CD, war einst auch die Kritik im Rockhard (Ausgabe 37), ich zitiere wörtlich: "Kein Tag ohne TERRORIZER!" Probably Scott Burns' best. Ripped To Shreds 12. The instruments are well balanced but definitely "raw". "Corporation Pull-In" is another good one, and the lyrics are very politically-fuelled, like many of the other songs on the album. But to me the fact that it is influential doesn’t mean that much – just because it was massively influential does not mean that it cannot be surpassed. Hello Select your address All Hello, Sign in. I bought this album expecting to have my ass handed to me, but no - I was disappointed by a dry production that seems to rob the music of all it’s fury and chaos, instead making it sound sterile. It's a shame that the band split up around the time of World Downfall's release. I don’t like silly/humorous music, which a fa.. Apparently the album was recorded and mixed in just eight hours! Sandoval proves why he is the all time God of death/grind drumming on this album with his mind-boggling performance--he sounds like an octopus that's been well-trained. (Official Music Video), BAND-MAID / Manners (Official Music Video), Straight Shot Home - Time Traveler (Official Video), OSAKA PUNCH - Eat Red Carpet [OFFICIAL LIVE MUSIC VIDEO], STARSCAPE - Single and lyric video [heavy metal]. Released 13 November 1989 on Earache (catalog no. Reviewer: 휘루. Amid the pioneering works that were "Seven Churches", "Scream Bloody Gore", "In Battle There Is No Law", "Slowly We Rot" and "Altars Of Madness" in the mid to late 80s stands a horse of a somewhat different color, or more specifically, one tied in pretty heavily with the parallel grindcore genre making waves at around the same time. Terrorizer played grind, but not so fast that it was a blur all the time; they had slower riffs with a more punk feel mixed in, and this is what makes this album such a deadly force to this day--the fact that they have dynamics and actual songs and riffs as opposed to mindless blasting and sludgy downtuned guitars that are so low you can't make out any riffs. Awesome death/grind, even though I was never a big fan of the vocals, they still had an all-star lineup and musical output. And it is remarkably precise when compared to the Napalm Deaths and Carcasses of the same era. 1. Kill The Client’s “Cleptocracy” has the what the fuck?!? Carcass’s “Reek Of Putrefaction” has the what the fuck?!? World Downfall, an Album by Terrorizer. factor. Immediately after its final tones had vanished, it was quite clear that this was a once-in-a-lifetime work. EMUSIC TOKEN. Your "World Downfall" equation is thusly: outrage at the system plus power-chord fury plus hyperspeed plus absolutely mind-blowing drums = oh my fucking god. It's the sort of album that manages to stand tall on its aggression alone in spite of all the expansion the sub-genre has experienced since, even when looking at the hyper-intensity and technical wonders of Dying Fetus and Cryptopsy, two bands that were likely familiar with either this album or some of the other handiwork of several of the people involved in it. TERRORIZER may never again reach the levels of their legendary debut album, World Downfall, but times have changed, and this band have also changed massively. The name of this project was Terrorizer, and its heavily consequential debut "World Downfall" stands as one of the crowning achievements of the 80s push for a truly vicious sound. World Downfall is by far my favorite Grindcore album of the 80’s. There is a big difference between a quite good album and a masterpiece, and World Downfall definitely is. Jesse just ripped and a lot of what he did is set the tone for the tempos, David Vincent helping out filling in on bass. Songs like "Corporation Pull-In" and the title track have (relatively) mid-paced riffs that simply dominate. No self-respecting adherent to death/grind should go without hearing it at least once, and it is arguably the only album with grind influences on it to own for those who aren't particularly fond of it yet have found themselves in any way interested in death metal. This album explodes in every song and tracks like Ripped to Shreds, Injustice and Need to Live are manifests of the group. "Dead Shall Rise" is the title of another highlight on "World Downfall", a song with a superhuman dynamic and a fiery core of destructive power. It’s a good one. Terrorizer, took the early grindcore sounds from across the ocean and injected a dose of thrash intensity, as well as some minor death metal attributes which resulted in one of the most influential grind albums ever in "World Downfall." The anarchic rigor of the album is the perfect breeding ground for immortal anthems. It’s dual heritage also led to a bizarre binary choice for lyricists, politics or gore, and never the twain shall meet. 2020-11-01 SilentScream213. Rating: 80/100. The name of this project was Terrorizer, and its heavily consequential debut "World Downfall" stands as one of the crowning achievements of the 80s push for a truly vicious sound. Other standouts are "Storm of Stress" and "Fear Of Napalm" with their fuzz bass intros, both songs are especially like hammers to the face! This band was heavy, fast, and knew rhythm and grind more than any other band at the time (if ever!). The lyrics are, as usual in grind music, about religion, politics, war and social problems. It’s no wonder Napalm Death poached Pintado and headed in a similar direction with their sound. No not a permanent member and Terrorizer trying to reform was a joke. It’s interesting to see that those lyrics and the cover can be considered very actual, even if they were done 20 years ago. So yeah, the intensity is there, just the lyrical topics I was never a big fan of, but who cares, the music is awesome! This is the ONLY Terrorizer I will listen to, especially since Jesse is gone. It should also be noted that while every instrumentalist provides an invaluable piece to this massive puzzle, the album pretty much lives and dies by the stellar engineering work of Scott Burns. It makes the music incredibly energizing, to understate dramatically. The band puts out one total classic album (World Downfall), like, a hundred years ago, then reunites for a good but kinda forgotten album (Darker Days Ahead), has a member die, then releases another album… it’s just too much to take. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does one is seized from the very first listen, and continues to be captivated every time it is played, never getting tired of it. The last real problem that i have with this release is that if you’re just getting into grindcore you’ll probably do it like someone getting into any musical style – start with more recent stuff and work backwards. It was announced earlier this year that they were reforming to record another album, and with a line-up of this calibre it's hard to see how it could be anything other than awesome. He had already been involved in great albums such as Death's "Leprosy", Whiplash's "Ticket to Mayhem" and Sepultura's "Schizophrenia" and Terrorizer profited from his experience. When heavy music comes to mind, most metalheads don't mention this band. There's no point going into individual tracks, they're all excellent. Enslaved By Propaganda 10. "Fear of Napalm" Terrorizer is a legendary band formed by Pete Sandoval (drums), Jesse Pintado (guitars), Oscar Garcia (vocals) and David Vincent (bass/vocals). 16 tracks under 40 minutes (not falling under than 1 minute or being longer than 4 minutes) and NO fillers. Whirlwind Struggle 14. I could pick the songs apart, but why? That’s not to say this is a bad album, Because it isn’t. Ein Umstand, der der Band aber mehr als gut steht. His playing is mind-boggling; hyper-fast, yet incredibly precise. I'm thinking crossover following a straight line from DRI to Repulsion to Terrorizer. Each and every track bursts out of the boxes with a maximum of spontaneity, energy and savagery. Gifted with the technical skills, Terrorizer do not create chaotic tracks per se. It’s become really clear to me why most Grindcore doesn’t do it for me while Terrorizer kicks ass. Pete Sandoval's drumming is absolutely perfect. Skip to main content BROWSE MUSIC. This raised the stakes for grindcore as a genre with technical standards. As I said, if you’re looking for Napalm Death’s clone, stay away. Operationally, they all have the same effect. The first thing that makes this album a kicking-ass release are the drums: Sandoval shows what the word “drumming” means with his great technique and “in-your-face” blast beats, both unusual in a genre where almost all drummers just hit the drums as fast as they can and in a monotone way, without any sign of creativity; the anger-filled vocals by Garcia and the killing riffs by Vincent and Pintado do the rest. The great mystique of this album is how utterly massive and nearly flawless it sounds in spite of being recorded and mixed in a mere 8 hours. This album can seem like a cyclonic blur from start to finish on first listen, with almost every track of the same consistency, but that's not to say they all sound the same. On Terrorizer’s ‘World Downfall’ released in 1989, Oscar Garcia heads up an all start line up for this undisputed classic of grind. Rated #33 in the best albums of 1989, and #1974 of all-time album.. The best phrase that could be used to describe this album would be "razor sharp." Once in a while you'll come across a truly remarkable album. That doesn't mean that he didn't know what he was doing on this effort, it just means that there's variety. Jesse Pintado's guitar-throttling is equally raging if not moreso. This mix is explosive, fancy and extremely catchy, making you handbang all around the room. This album - along with those other 2 - essentially define grindcore, and this one is arguably the best example of what grind is – short, sharp shocks of raw, harsh, animosity spat in the general direction of anyone unfortunate enough to be standing in front of it. No Bolt Thrower-syndrome on exhibition here, all the tracks are different enough to be individual yet keep that common thread running through to make the album consistent. "World Downfall" kind of sounds like Napalm Death, circa 1987 (the "Scum" era), except these songs are longer and David's vocals are much more constipated. Terrorizer is sort of a continuation of where DRI might have gone but for fortune... Quickly, the DRI story: DRI's masterpiece, "Dealing With It!," came out in 1985... Up til that point DRI was the ultimate crossover band. 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