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Forming in Telford, Shropshire, in the furthest radial of Birmingham’s death/grind blast radius, in 1988, CANCER’s first two albums, the basic and brutal ‘To The Gory End’ and the sweeping structured savagery of ‘Death Shall Rise’, became certified classics of British death metal – or of which you can read about in TERRORIZER’S SECRET HISTORY OF…DEATH METAL up for pre-order now. Read more »

As you should already know, from having read the studio report latest issue of the world's baddest assest extreme metal magazine, I travelled to the Romanian capital of Bucharest at the end of January to spend some quality time with wild dogs, indoor smoking, curiously polite mosh pits, antisemetic taxi drivers, flights full of gypsies, and most importantly, drummer/percussionist NEGRU and NEGURA BUNGET's glorious ne Read more »

Following their return as a live band at last year's Terrorizer-sponsored Damnation Festival, grindcore supergroup LOCK UP, featuring Napalm Death's Shane Embury, Disfear and former At The Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg, former Pentagram guitarist Anton Reisenegger and prolific drum monster Nick Barker have announce their intention to record three new songs for a split with the mighty Brutal Truth. Shane let us in on the band's first material since 2002's 'Hate Breeds Suffering'. Read more »

The spiritual successor to '80s Aussie horror classic 'Razorback', with an extra dash of the subversive 'Twin Peaks' for good measure, Korean film 'CHAW' tells the story of a seemingly idyllic, yet downright perverse rural community plagued by a giant wild boar, happy to knock back red hot chunks of human flesh like it's popcorn. Out on DVD March 1 through Optimum Home Entertainment, director JUNG-WON SHIN kindly fielded a few questions about why he chose to bring home the bacon.
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Scene veteran ANDRÉS PADILLA saw 'Swedish Death Metal' and wondered why he couldn't do the same thing for Chile. So he did, writing its impressive Spanish-language counterpart, 'RETROSPECTIVA AL METAL CHILENO (1983-1994)'. Read more »

With the collected Terrorizer Albums Of 2009 sitting proudly inside the latest issue of the world’s number one extreme metal unhallowed text, I unleashed my own list, proving these last twelve months the ones I rediscovered hardcore, disappeared up my own arse into a grind cul-de-sac and completely opted out of any genre that hasn’t claimed Napalm Death as a member.