Jesse Pintado (who died in 2006) and I had been penpals for some time, when he sent me his bands TERRORIZER final demo tape. It was this split cassette with L.A.’s NAUSEA. Even though I loved the previous tapes (like the legendary “mixer rehearsal” from August 22, 1987), this one blew me out of the window. We were discussing the possibility for a release on my label, but things never worked out.

Some call this Grindcore, which it is of course not. It’s Death Metal of the most savage sort. I guess almost everybody into this type of music will have met at least once in their lives somebody who said “I love TERRORIZER, but I hate Metal”, haha. Everything is perfect on this tape and whenever the 2nd guitar comes in, my heartbeat stops for a second. Fantastic. Forget the LP (“World Downfall”) – it’s much too clean. To me, this is what TERRORIZER were all about. Raw, dirty, brutal yet listenable thanks to the great riffs.

NAUSEA are catchy, very ENT influenced. I like the speedy parts and Oscars vocals.

Here is the complete booklet of the tape with some interesting historical details.

All the bootlegs of this I’ve heard sounded like shit. Now you can hear the demo (almost) as it originally sounded, encoded in wonderful 320kbit/sec.

Terrorizer Side:

Corporation pull in.mp3

Human Prey.mp3

Infestation.mp3

Ripped to Shreds.mp3

Strategic Warheads.mp3

After World Obliteration.mp3