Editorial: Christ, I feel old. Why? Well, check this issue’s cover strapline; can it really be two whole decades since the dark Satanic mills of West Yorkshire spawned the gloomy behemoth that is Paradise Lost, closely followed by si...read more
FEATURES: PARADISE LOST, MY DYING BRIDE and ANATHEMA + MOTÖRHEAD + KRISIUN + DRAGONFORCE + WOLD + DARKSPA... click for more
street date 2008-08-14
Volume No. 173
Editorial: Reading the Capricorns and Harvey Milk features this issue, one might justifiably exclaim, ‘Wait a minute. Just what the fuck is going on here? Bands torn apart by the migration of their members to new climes? Bands who don&...read more
FEATURES: THE ROTTED + WITHERED + CAPRICORNS + ABORTED + HARVEY MILK + ASCEND + CULT OF LUNA + GRAVE + MADE OU... click for more
street date 2008-07-17
Volume No. 172
Editorial: “It is the business of the future to be dangerous,” declared veteran space rockers Hawkwind on their 1993 album of the same name. And it’s true; you never quite know what is going to hurtle out of the unknown and...read more
FEATURES: NACHTMYSTIUM + UNLEASHED + ASVA + MOONSPELL + KATAKLYSM + MELVINS + LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR + NO AGE + ... click for more
street date 2008-06-16
Volume No. 171
Editorial: Another month, another almost irresponsibly thrill-packed issue of the greatest extreme music magazine known to humankind. How do we do it, you ask? Well, it’s fairly simple. After the final dissolution of Willy Wonka’...read more
FEATURES: OPETH + IHSAHN + TIAMAT + ARSIS + TORCHE + ORIGIN + SCOTT KELLY/STEVE VON TILL/A STORM OF LIGHT + BE... click for more
street date 2008-05-22
Volume No. 170
Editorial: Perhaps the most exciting revelation to be found in this issue of the fucking greatest fucking extreme fucking music fucking magazine in the entire fucking universe, is the disclosure that apparently soon-to-retire Deicide frontma...read more
FEATURES: DEICIDE + NORTTSTAR OF ASH + WILDILDLIFE + SOILENT GREEN + WARRELL DANE + VENOMOUS CONCEPT + ZIMMERS... click for more
street date 2008-04-24
Volume No. 169
Editorial: Only four months into the year and it’s already looking like a good ‘un for those inclined toward the extreme reaches of the musical spectrum. As tiny wee shoots strain against their temporary earthly imprisonment, anx...read more
FEATURES: SAHGTESTAMENT THE SWORD PELICAN/TUSK HATE 5IVE SCORN DEATH ANGEL TRIGGER THE BLOODSHED STRIBORG DARK... click for more
street date 2008-03-25
Volume No. 168
Editorial: First off, I’d like to emphasise how proud we are to be bearing the simultaneously alluring and chilling visage of Diamanda Galás on the cover of Terrorizer #168. As one scribe pointed out, in photographer Austin Youn...read more
FEATURES: DISMEMBERGENGHIS TRON BURIED AT SEA KINGDOM OF SORROW ROTTEN SOUND TO-MERA THORIUM DIAMANDA GAL&Aacu... click for more
street date 2008-02-28
Volume No. 167
Editorial: Given that this issue of the world’s greatest metal and extreme music magazine features a gutful of grimness from a handful of geographically disparate sources, I had originally intended this editorial to be a celebration of...read more
FEATURES: HATE ETERNAL EARTH GORGOROTH TOUR REPORT NIFELHEIM FOSCOR ENDSTILLE VICIOUS ART VESANIA LOST CLASSI... click for more
street date 2008-01-31
Volume No. 166
Editorial:
It’s me, bitchez! Ahem. Here we are at the beginning of anot...read more
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street date 2008-01-03
Volume No. 165
Editorial:
Welcome to Terrorizer’s Christmas 2007 issue, 100 pages of heavy shit to keep your synapses sparking while your fleshy ve...read more
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street date 2007-12-06
Volume No. 164
Editorial:
Y’know, it’s hard to write an editorial for a magazine which pretty much speaks for itself. Flicking through the pag...read more
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street date 2007-11-08
Volume No. 163
Editorial:
When I first joined Terrorizer as Editor back in November 2000, I knew then that I was entering into a very special legacy, one ...read more
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street date 2007-10-11
Volume No. 162
Editorial:
For all we might moan about the infiltration of metal by blow-in-the-wind chancers, mediocrities and musically illiterate parasites, the one positive we can take is that it puts the powe...read more
FEATURES: OBITUARY
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street date 2007-09-13
Volume No. 161
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street date 2007-08-16
Volume No. 160
Editorial:
This was an opportunity we couldn’t overlook: two of our greatest death metal bands, both immersed in the atmosphere and lore of ancient history, and both releasing their latest al...read more
Editorial: Some of you are probably thinking, ‘What the fuck?’ How come we’ve thrown a young band on the cover who have just released their debut album - by their own admission not the most innovative record you’ll he...read more
FEATURES: STUDIO REPORT: NILE JOB FOR A COWBOY AKERCOCKE MANOWAR PARADISE LOST DEVIN ... click for more
street date 2007-06-21
Volume No. 158
Editorial: No matter what your views on Turisas are, any band that can get a bunch of metalheads dancing to a cover of Boney M’s ‘Rasputin’ has a) no small amount of magic on their side, and b) balls. The first time I got t...read more
FEATURES: STUDIO REPORT: CANDLEMASS TURISAS NEUROSIS MARDUK SIX FEET UNDER DARK TRANQ... click for more
street date 2007-05-24
Volume No. 157
Editorial:
No band embodies the tensions within the extreme metal scene quite like this month’s cover stars, Dimmu Borgir. Still often judged by criteria of the underground when it’s been patently obvious...read more
With the obvious exception of 'Chinese Democracy', it's unlikely that any album this year will have as much to prove as Mayhem's 'Ordo Ad Chao'. This is a band who are central to the black metal mytholog...read more
FEATURES: STUDIO REPORT: AKERCOCKE MAYHEM MACHINE HEAD NAGLFAR SAXON ABORTED CHT... click for more
street date 2007-03-29
Volume No. 155
Editorial: I always thought it was an irony that black metal was so desperate to purge itself of the one musical form - the blues - that was deeply entwined with the devil; after all, the 2003 compilation, ‘Lords Of Chaos: A History Of...read more
FEATURES: STUDIO REPORT: MARDUK CLUTCH TYPE O NEGATIVE JESU ONSLAUGHT THE BERZERKERclick for more
street date 2007-03-01
Volume No. 154
Editorial:
Metal fans love routes into other worlds, but very often the most immediate gateway isn’t the music itself, it’s the artwork that accompanies it. It provides an aura that remains forever embedd...read more
FEATURES: STUDIO REPORT: DAM TOUR REPORT: CELTIC FROST RED HARVEST MOONSORROW WOLF TH... click for more
street date 2007-02-01
Volume No. 153
Editorial:
Choosing who goes on the front cover is one of the most important aspect of a magazine, but, particularly in the world of extreme music, there’s no straightforward formula; more often than not, the m...read more
FEATURES: STUDIO REPORT: MACHINE HEAD
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street date 2007-01-04
Volume No. 152
Editorial: There may not be any new recordings in the pipeline, and Sabbat’s reunion may comprise just a series of UK live dates in December supporting Cradle Of Filth, to be followed by a few festival outings, but within such ephemera...read more
FEATURES: STUDIO REPORT: THERION SABBAT PAGAN METAL UNLEASHED MELECHESH NEGURA BUNGET... click for more
street date 2006-12-07
Volume No. 151
Editorial: It’s telling that in this age of immediacy and instant gratification, all the talk of Gojira has only really broken to the surface a year after their third and most recent album, ‘From Mars To Sirius’, was releas...read more
FEATURES: GOJIRA IRON MAIDEN I THE HAUNTED MY DYING BRIDE CONVERGE HAMMERFALLclick for more
street date 2006-11-09
Volume No. 150
Editorial:
Admit it: you’d miss them if they were gone. All the brouhaha that surrounds Cradle Of Filth, the sniping, the gossip, the assumptions and insinuations, has never really been an attempt to distance ourselves from one of o...read more
FEATURES: CRADLE OF FILTH JON NÖDTVEIDT TRIBUTE NAPALM DEATH JESSE PINTADO TRIBUTE IS... click for more
street date 2006-10-12
Volume No. 149
Editorial:
Let’s not beat about the bush: despite being Mastodon’s first release on a major label ‘Blood Mountain’ is not an easy ride. Even though its predecessor, ‘Leviathan’, was voted Terrorizer alb...read more
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PLEASE NOTE: The Unsigned CD and regular Fear Candy are incorrectly labelled. Both play f... click for more
street date 2006-09-14
Volume No. 148
Editorial: Of all the specials we’ve done thus far, death metal has been the biggest undertaking. Whereas as punk, prog, doom and even black metal are more specialist areas, a love of DM is the bottom line for anyone who’s into e...read more
FEATURES: STUDIO REPORT: MY DYING BRIDE STUDIO REPORT: ENTOMBED DEICIDE SLAYER TERROR... click for more
street date 2006-08-17
Volume No. 147
Editorial: Considering 'Reign In Blood' invariably tops every list of greatest ever metal albums, it's testament to Slayer's unquenchable fire that no matter how much our fascination with that album remains u...read more
FEATURES: SLAYER VOIVOD2 STRAPPING YOUNG LAD METAL CHURCH SCENE REPORT: AUSTRALIA KAL... click for more
Editorial: If you're wondering why this month's issue is out a week earlier in the month than usual, or why we're all looking so pale these days, the answer to both those questions will be that from now on, Terrorizer is go...read more
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OBITUARY LIFE OF AGONY MISTRESS GOREROTTED WITCHCRAFT G... click for more