Hardcore legends, Terror, recently announced their upcoming eighth full-length, Pain Into Power, due out May 6th via End Hits Records. The album marks a full circle moment for Terror as they teamed with founding guitarist and current Nails mastermind, Todd Jones, who produced the new material. The result is 20 minutes of unrelenting hardcore fury that's sure to turn heads with longtime fans and the uninitiated alike.
Today the band have shared another taste of Pain Into Power with their new song "Boundless Contempt." The track follows lead single "Can't Help But Hate" and highlights Terror's unparalleled ability to flip from breakneck speed to an earthshaking breakdown down on a dime.
Pain Into Power comes with exclusive packagings in various limited versions including black covers with UV-lacquer, imprinted PVC-sleeves and picture discs.
Vocalist Scott Vogel discussed writing the new track, saying:
"This is the one song that every member of the band and Todd all had on their list of favorite tracks on the record. The driving speed of the first half of the song is completely unhinged. I remember when figuring out the breakdown, there was the idea of first having a guitar break bring in the ending and it sounded strong. Todd went and demoed it with bass instead which is a little different for Terror and we all instantly agreed that was the right choice. Much thanks to Ben Cook for being there with vocal oversight which now seems like a Terror staple."
For two decades Terror have been relentless. The band has achieved a kind of longevity that’s exceedingly rare, managing to stay both consistently active and consistently ferocious–a feet that’s taken them from their underground roots to being one of the most legendary groups in hardcore. Now on their eighth studio album, Pain Into Power, the band have bridged the gap between their past and present, with original guitarist Todd Jones returning to the fold to produce an extraordinarily visceral record that proves Terror’s future is looking as fast, heavy, and aggressive as ever.
Terror–whose current lineup is made up of vocalist Scott Vogel, drummer Nick Jett, guitarists Martin Stewart and Jordan Posner, and bassist Chris Linkovich–were founded in 2002 by Vogel, Jett, and Jones, with the latter leaving the band a few years later and eventually forming the brutal hardcore-by-way-of-death-metal outfit, Nails. When the world was put on hold at the start of 2020, Vogel reached out to Jones about the idea of working on a project. They began writing songs together again and quickly found their old creative chemistry was more than intact. Terror and Jones marked the moment with 2021’s Trapped In A World, a live-in-the-studio rerecording of songs from the band’s earliest releases, and the experience was so satisfying that the team soon turned their attention to making a brand new Terror album.
With Jones at the production helm and Matt Hyde engineering/mixing (whose previous work includes Terror's landmark album Keepers of The Faith, as well as releases from The Deftones, Slayer, Hatebreed, and more), the band convened at Jett’s Jet To Mars Studio with the goal of making an album that captures the unhinged kinetic energy of Terror’s earlier work filtered through 20 years of seasoned musicianship. “Todd’s whole approach to, and vision for, this record was to make it just full-on aggression from the minute it starts to the minute it ends,” Vogel explains. “That goes back to our first EP, Lowest Of The Low, which Todd was writing on. This album is maybe even more turned-up, even faster, even more abrasive. Terror post-Todd has stayed the course along that aggressive, hard-hitting, fast, in-your-face hardcore that doesn’t stray from the path too much–but he really wanted this one to be straight insanity that doesn’t let up.”
And it doesn’t. Clocking in at a lean 20 minutes, Pain Into Power is Terror boiled down to their most primal and effective state. The title track and opener offers the perfect introduction, just 53 seconds of crushing hardcore that demonstrates the band’s unparalleled intensity and the undeniable spark in their work with Jones. “I obviously know Terror,” says Vogel, “but this album still hit me harder than I expected. When people listen to this album, I hope they think ‘this is Terror, but this is the Terror record I was hoping for and needed,’ and it hits them harder than we’ve hit them before.”
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