Terror (band)

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Terror

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Origin = Los Angeles, California, United States
Years_active = 2002–present
Label = Trustkill, Century Media
Associated_acts = Another Victim, Betrayed, Blood Has Been Shed, Buried Alive, Carry On, Culture, Despair, Diecast, Fadeaway, First Blood, Integrity, Internal Affairs, One Nation Under, Piece by Piece, Pitboss 2000, The Promise, Rain on the Parade, Ringworm, Shark Attack, Slugfest, Snake Eyes, Sworn Vengeance
URL = [http://www.terrorhc.com/ www.terrorhc.com]
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Terror, formed in 2000, is a hardcore punk and metalcore [ [http://www.rockdetector.com/artist,43680.sm TERROR | Rockdetector ] ] [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=11:d9fuxqydld0e allmusic ((( Terror > Overview ))) ] ] 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." [ [http://www.montagpress.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1155&Itemid=58 Montagpress interview with Doug Weber]

Terror has been very successful in their time as a band. Their second album One with the Underdogs sold over 40,000 copiesFact|date=June 2008. They have also been on tours throughout Europe, Australia, Brazil and Japan. [ [http://www.trustkill.com/artists/read-band-bio.php?id=10 Band bio] Trustkill website] Their third album, Always the Hard Way reached #10 on Billboard's Heatseekers and #19 on Top Independent Records. [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=766621&model.vnuAlbumId=783875 Billboard Chart Info] Billboard]

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 " [http://www.vogelisms.com 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

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) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3p3ok1Ovt4]

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

* [http://www.terrorhc.com/ Official Terror website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/terror Terror] at MySpace
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=11:d9fuxqydld0e Terror] at Allmusic
* [http://www.trustkill.com/artist/Terror Terror] at Trustkill Records
* [http://www.lambgoat.com/features/interviews/scott_vogel.aspx Scott Vogel interview (Mar. 2007)]
* [http://www.vogelisms.com Vogelisms at vogelisms.com]
* [http://heavymetal66.free.fr/index.php?/category/20/ photo show paris 2006]
* [http://heavymetal66.free.fr/index.php?/category/61/ photo show paris 2007]