UK Thrash in Terrorizer

by **MartinC** on Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:39 pm

I'd be really surprised if Ian gave us any less than 8/10. I'm hoping for 9/10 though.

by **terrorizer** on Sat Jun 14, 2008 1:18 pm

Hmmm, not telling!

by **MartinC** on Sat Jun 14, 2008 1:52 pm

GAWWWWWWWWD!!1

by **Reanimator Luke** on Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:37 pm

Kilgore~Let 'Em Burn wrote:I think this'll be the last issue of Terrorizer that i buy, since Joe Stannard took over as editor it's just plummeted in quality with utterly banal cd and live reviews in which on occasion the reviewers have even said they're not keen on the band being reviewed!!! There is also what appears to be a somewhat disparaging attitude developing towards thrash via underhand comments and insinuations etc.
It also seems to have become a promotional vessel for some of the writers own bands and projects and personal tastes, i can agree with the covering of all aspects of extreme music but i fail to understand the seemingly constant obsession with noisecore and uber-doom bands which seem to have infested the majority of the magazine for the past 6 months or so i mean Genghis Tron?! Boris?! Jex Thoth?! Terrorizer was once a reliable source of information for the more extreme end of the metal market under the former editor but now it's gone sadly downhill. What a shame.

Spot on mate, this echoes my exact thoughts about Terrorizer, only I stopped reading it a few issues ago. It's become a very poor magazine indeed since Joe Stannard took over, and is now in my opinion a complete waste of money.

by **Immortalicide** on Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:43 pm

Reanimator Luke wrote:
Kilgore~Let 'Em Burn wrote:I think this'll be the last issue of Terrorizer that i buy, since Joe Stannard took over as editor it's just plummeted in quality with utterly banal cd and live reviews in which on occasion the reviewers have even said they're not keen on the band being reviewed!!! There is also what appears to be a somewhat disparaging attitude developing towards thrash via underhand comments and insinuations etc.
It also seems to have become a promotional vessel for some of the writers own bands and projects and personal tastes, i can agree with the covering of all aspects of extreme music but i fail to understand the seemingly constant obsession with noisecore and uber-doom bands which seem to have infested the majority of the magazine for the past 6 months or so i mean Genghis Tron?! Boris?! Jex Thoth?! Terrorizer was once a reliable source of information for the more extreme end of the metal market under the former editor but now it's gone sadly downhill. What a shame.

Spot on mate, this echoes my exact thoughts about Terrorizer, only I stopped reading it a few issues ago. It's become a very poor magazine indeed since Joe Stannard took over, and is now in my opinion a complete waste of money.

i have to say, i spend far less time in w h smiths reading it now than i ever have :lol:

by **thrashduck** on Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:46 pm

I think they're slightly overobsessed with finding the most obscure acts going, they've kind of lost sight of their readership..

by **Immortalicide** on Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:10 pm

seriously, i rememeber saying to ian a while back that i was getting fed up with the way it was going. I want to read a review of a CD to find out what it sounds like, how good the production is, and come away with an idea as to wether id want that CD or not. I dont want to read a review to have to get my thesarus out to work out what the fucjk the reviewer is trying to say, if anything. Too many reviews were becoming self indulgent litery masterbations that did nothing to make me want to hear or buy the releases they were penned for.

by **Atom** on Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:18 pm

What like:

"The production tastes like the sound of an oblong purple square floating in an ostrich".

As opposed to:

"The production is well crusty, but you might like that sort of thing".

I know what you mean and I don't dig it!

by **terrorizer** on Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:57 pm

It would be unfair and unprofessional of me to join in with this conversation, but suffice to say you don't lose three people from the top and keep the magazine the same.

by **H.O.D. Feemo** on Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:22 pm

Did we make it in there?

by **terrorizer** on Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:55 pm

No, not yet. I've prodded them twice about it too. I'll have to sharpen my stick to a point and prod them again.

by **Dian Wei** on Sun Jun 15, 2008 5:04 pm

Make sure they get called The Hospital Death.

by **James** on Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:33 pm

Immortalicide wrote:i have to say, i spend far less time in w h smiths reading it now than i ever have

I bet WH Smith staff can spot rockers a mile off, as they will leaf through the metal mags in store for ages!!

This is also true for me and White Dwarf (warhammer magazine), because I refuse to pay £4 (at least) for what is mostly a bunch of pictures.

Roughly back on topic though, I actually sent a bunch of replies to Dom Lawson from Metal Hammer after he contacted UKT about a feature - he hasn't told me if it is making it into the mag yet, but fingers crossed it will get some sort of inclusion soon!

by **STD_Caps** on Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:45 pm

I agree with the folks accusing Terrorizer of a downward trend. Ultimately, you can predict what albums will do well and not so well and the reviews are normally as pretentious as the music it's meant to be reviewing. A great shame because it was the only mag I regularly followed, along with Red Pepper.

How's White Dwarf these days? I haven't looked at that for years!

by **Dian Wei** on Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:51 pm

It is basically a catalogue these days.

I used to enjoy it where they actually worked on the worlds they were creating, rather than just pushing their new line of lead.

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