Terrifyer

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Terrifyer
PigDestroyer-Terrifyer.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 12, 2004 (2004-10-12)
RecordedAugust 2002 – July 2004
StudioBrian Harvey's home
Visceralsound (Bethesda, Maryland)
Genre Grindcore
Length32:16
Label Relapse
Producer Scott Hull
Pig Destroyer chronology
Painter of Dead Girls
(2004)
Terrifyer
(2004)
Pig Destroyer / Coldworker / Antigama split
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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LambgoatStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
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Terrifyer is the third studio album by American grindcore band Pig Destroyer. It was released in 2004 by Relapse Records.

Contents

The album includes a second disc recorded in DVD-Audio and mixed with 5.1 surround sound. The disc contains one sludge metal song called "Natasha". The Japanese release of Terrifyer includes four bonus tracks, and includes "Natasha" as a second CD instead of a DVD. "Natasha" was reissued on a regular CD as a separate release in 2008. The album booklet features a six-page story of how Natasha became the "Terrifyer". Some copies of Terrifyer were released with a slip of paper on the cover to hide the artwork.

In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked Terrifyer as 88th on their list of "The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time". [5] "Gravedancer" appeared on the Tony Hawk's American Wasteland soundtrack as a cut down 1:47 version (ending where the sample begins).

Track listing

All lyrics are written by J. R. Hayes.

Disc one
No.TitleLength
1."Intro"0:41
2."Pretty in Casts"1:16
3."Boy Constrictor"0:58
4."Scarlet Hourglass"0:57
5."Thumbsucker"1:33
6."Gravedancer"3:01
7."Lost Cause"0:54
8."Sourheart"0:53
9."Towering Flesh"3:35
10."Song of Filth"0:41
11."Verminess"1:16
12."Torture Ballad"1:21
13."Restraining Order Blues"1:32
14."Carrion Fairy"2:30
15."Downpour Girl"1:30
16."Soft Assassin"1:27
17."Dead Carnations"1:30
18."Crippled Horses"1:34
19."The Gentleman"1:23
20."Crawl of Time"1:30
21."Terrifyer"2:12
22."Dress in Gasoline" (Japanese bonus track)1:56
23."The Cutting Room" (Japanese bonus track)0:51
24."Blurface" (Japanese bonus track)0:48
25."Doomspell" (Japanese bonus track)2:18
Disc two (Japanese version)
No.TitleLength
1."Natasha"37:55
DVD
No.TitleLength
1."Natasha" (DVD-Audio)37:55

Accolades

PublicationAccoladeRankRef.
Kerrang! Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2004
15
[6]
Loudwire 10 Best Metal Albums of 2004
8
[7]
Loudwire Top 100 Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Albums of the 21st Century
51
[8]
LoudwireTop 25 Extreme Metal Albums of All Time
25
[9]
Rolling Stone The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time
88
TreblezineTreble's Top 100 Metal Albums
46

Personnel

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