It is my sad duty to report that the cover-mounted CD on this month’s issue of Terrorizer magazine isn’t up to the usual high standards.
For one thing, there are several tracks on it by bands on Roadrunner Records, officially the WORST RECORD LABEL IN THE WORLD EVER, (home of gut-wrenchingly horrid third rate nu-metal support acts and, even worse, over-enthusiastic ‘streetteamers’ and PRs desperately trying to make them sound interesting). Most of the other tracks are of the terminally uninteresting I-will-beat-you-to-death-with-my-great-testosterone-sweating-bald-head variety of ‘metallic hardcore’. I mean, jesus, how much more pointless, non-specific hardcore man-rage does the world need? At least black metal bands have songs that are actually about cool stuff - like Satan and the end of the world and mass-murder. Stuff which, y’know, actually has reason to sound like the sonic equivalent of a tribe of gorillas tearing each other’s cocks off.
And wouldn’t you know it, the two tracks that go some way towards redeeming this particular CD are the heart-warming satanic rampage provided by Behexen and the indie-friendly weird grindcore of Daughters. For shame, Terrorizer, for shame. (Obviously the magazine itself is still great fun, but it’s the CD that gives me an excuse to spend money on it.)

Now I bet you don’t see any of those other oh-so-trendy music bloggers bothering to write a post about the free CD with Terrorizer magazine!

Actually, there’s probably a good reason for that.

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