Terrorizer

Terrorizer is an extreme metal music magazine published by Dark Arts Ltd. in the United Kingdom. It is released every four weeks with thirteen issues a year and features a "Fear Candy" covermount CD, a twice yearly "Fear Candy Unsigned" CD, and a double-sided poster. Terrorizer published its first issue in October 1993 with Sepultura on the cover and a price of £1.95 with the words:


 * "Sure, the layout was a bit ropey, with several 'cut out'-style pictures in the live section and some horribly lo-fi video stills in the Pestilence feature, but what a line-up of bands! Sepultura, Morgoth, Entombed, Morbid Angel, At the Gates, Coroner, Dismember, Sinister, Death...it was a veritable smorgasbord of brutality." 

The magazine's name derives from seminal grindcore band Terrorizer (which got the name from the death metal band Master's first demo in 1985) and as such, the magazine was an early champion of the emerging death metal scene, a tradition that it carried on and expanded to include all sub-genres of extreme metal, adopting the slogan "extreme music - no boundaries" in 2003 with issue 108, also the first part of the Thrash Special. After a second issue with cover stars Carcass, the then editor, Rob Clymo, took a risk by putting Metallica on the cover which, although caused controversy with elitists, symbolised a move towards broader musical coverage. Despite this, Terrorizer's pulse remained firmly on the extreme metal underground with Cradle of Filth winning best demo and Fear Factory best newcomer in the 1993 Readers' Poll. (read more on wikipedia)

Links To Peel
British radio DJ John Peel, famously a champion of death metal and grindcore, revealed himself to be a fan of the magazine in an episode of Home Truths on BBC Radio 4:


 * "...I took several copies of a music magazine called 'Terrorizer' out of my luggage before leaving for New Zealand via Los Angeles in 2002 and given the hostility of the officials we encountered in California I'd say we did the right thing..."

Terrorizer's former editor Nicky Terry joined with John Peel to write a foreward for the book, Choosing Death, a history of Death Metal and Grindcore in 2004. Peel would also regular play extreme metal music on his show from Terrorizer's free CD's that were part of the magazine.

Shows Played
(a list of music played from Terrorizer's sampler CD's on Peel's shows) 2002 2003 2004
 * 23 April 2002: Impaled Nazarene: The Humble Fuck Of Death (Terrorizer magazine sampler CD – Terrorized Vol. 15)
 * 23 July 2002: Watchmaker - 'Broken By Refraction (LP - Now That's What I Call Terror 18 )' (Terrorizer)
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 * 26 February 2003: Narcosis: 'Hit It, It's Still Moving' (CD: Terrorized Vol21) Terrorizer (JP: "Well, I expect they love their mothers…")
 * 04 March 2003: Thekevorkiansolution: 'Tokyoteencrush (Album, Comp.: Terrorized V21)' (Terrorizer)
 * 19 June 2003: Blueprint - 'International House Of Dirt (LP- Terrorized V 23)' (Terrorizer)
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