Terrifyer

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Terrifyer
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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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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 the band's near-40 minute sludge metal song "Natasha". The Japanese release of Terrifyer includes four bonus tracks and "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 version, cutting the sample at the end.[ citation needed ]

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

References

  1. Raggett, Ned. "Terrifyer review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  2. Cory. "Terrifyer review". Lambgoat. December 23, 2004. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  3. Begrand, Adrien (October 24, 2004). "Pig Destroyer: Terrifyer". PopMatters . Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  4. Aubin, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Terrifyer review". Punk News. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  5. "Rolling Stone Share Their Choices For 'The 100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time'". The PRP. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  6. "Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2004". Rock List Music. Archived from the original on February 16, 2006. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  7. Divita, Joe. "10 Best Metal Albums of 2004". Loudwire . Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  8. "Top 100 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 21st Century". Loudwire . Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  9. Divita, Joe. "Top 25 Extreme Metal Albums of All Time". Loudwire. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  10. Weingarten, Christopher. "The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone . Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  11. "Treble's Top 100 Metal Albums". Treblezine. Retrieved July 17, 2019.