Terror (band)

Terror, formed in 2000, is a hardcore punk and metalcore band from Los Angeles, California. Though the group consider themselves a "hardcore" band, guitarist Doug Weber says Terror, "sounds like all of the old metal bands I used to listen to. It's just not crazy Swedish metal or something, it sounds like old thrash.

Terror has been very successful in their time as a band. Their second album One with the Underdogs sold over 40,000 copies. They have also been on tours throughout Europe, Australia, Brazil and Japan. Their third album, Always the Hard Way reached #10 on Billboard's Heatseekers and #19 on Top Independent Records.

Before Terror, vocalist Scott Vogel was already popular among the underground scene , singing for mid-90s Buffalo bands Slugfest, Despair, and Buried Alive. Drummer Nick Jett and ex-guitarist Todd Jones were members of the well-known hardcore band Carry On (who had releases on Bridge Nine and Youngblood Records).

Vogel is widely known in the scene not just for his efforts to keep hardcore punk and metalcore "pure" and "fun," but for his love of stagedives, and for his tendency for bizarre and often hilarious on-stage banter, known colloquially as " Vogelisms". Examples include: "We need to elevate the maximum stagedive potential", "Take this shit to the next level", "Who cares if you're Christian?", and "Maximum output! Activate the pit!" Terror also participated in the first two years of the Sounds of the Underground tour.

Discography

Year	Release	Medium	Label	Comment
2002	4 Song Demo	CD	Eigenproduktion	Demo
2002	Don't need your Help	7"	Take Over Records/Old Guard Records	Demo
2003	Life and Death	7"	Bridge 9 Records	Demo
	Lowest of the Low	CD, 10", 12"	Bridge 9 Records	EP
	Three Way Split	7"	Organized Crime Records	Split w/ The Promise & Plan of Attack
2004	Dead Man's Hand Vol. 2	7"	Deathwish Inc.	Split w/ Ringworm
	One with the Underdogs	CD, 12"	Trustkill Records/Dead Serious Records	Album
2005	Life and Death>Life and Death - The Demo	7"	Reaper Records	Re-Release
	Lowest of the Low	CD	Trustkill Records	Re-Release (+ 13 Bonustracks)
2006	The Living proof	DVD	Trustkill Records	Live-DVD
	Always the Hard Way	CD, 12"	Trustkill Records/Reflection Records/Lockin' Out Records(vinyl)	Album, Billboard Top Heatseakers Chart #10, Billboard Top Independent Album Chart #19
2007	Rhythm Amongst the Chaos	CD, 7"	Reaper Records	EP
2008	The Damned, The Shamed	CD	Century Media Records	Album

Band members

• Scott Vogel - vocals (Slugfest, Despair, and Buried Alive)
• Doug Weber - guitar (ex-First Blood, ex-Sworn Vengeance)
• Martin Stewart - guitar (Donnybrook, L.I.O.N.)
• Nick Jett - drums (Piece by Piece (singer), Donnybrook, ex-Carry On)

Former Members

• Frank Novinec - guitar (Hatebreed, ex-Ringworm, ex-Integrity)
• Carl Schwartz - bass (First Blood, ex-Sworn Vengeance)
• Todd Jones - guitar (Internal Affairs, Snake Eyes, Betrayed, Carry On, Blacklisted)
• Matt Smith - bass (Rain on the Parade, Shark Attack)
• Richard Thurston - bass (Culture, Blood Has Been Shed)
• Jonathan Buske - bass (Rag Men, ex-The Promise, ex-Another Victim)

Trivia

In the movie Aquamarine, a man wearing a Terror shirt appears during the escalator scene.
Terror is featured on a remix of Jedi Mind Tricks song Heavy Metal Kings in their limited edition of the album Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell.

References

External links

• Official Terror website
• Terror at MySpace
• Terror at Allmusic
• Terror at Trustkill Records
• Scott Vogel interview (Mar. 2007)
• Vogelisms at vogelisms.com
• photo show paris 2006
• photo show paris 2007