Records With History And Future

To me this isn’t just another Terror album. I anticipated this one more than Keepers Of The Faith. Because the marketing was more quiet than for the Keepers Of The Faith. Also the notion that there would be a band zine included made me curious. Later it went also public that Victory Records would do the compact disc version and the tape versions.

Now that I got the full set, despite the increased postage from United States of America, I’m quite happy with it. Let me explain why. Everybody knows that Terror is on the forefront of the worldwide Hardcore scene. With relentless touring and numerous meaningful albums on various labels they established themselves as eternal guardians of the Hardcore ethics and music. And the fact that they wrote a good band zine and that it’s included with the album feels comfortable to me.

It’s about their code built on prosperity and setbacks, built with blood, sweat and tears. They say that we need an equilibrium between respect for the old hardcore and the newer input. Also a positive attitude on shows, leaving a positive feeling after a show for both the venue and the kids.
And that hardcore is not background music for fights and violence. Hardcore should be a home and place to be or a refugee from a messed up life and world. A community where you can be yourself. Also a fight to protect that community and family you have by uniting against commodities and violent people.

As you can read many wise words in there. Also the lyrics are included in the book. And those lyrics have explanations written by Scott Vogel along with them.

Making this zine come along with the vinyl keeps the spirit alive and alright. Writing about hardcore and pressing records does just that. I won’t give too many details about the writings as I suggest you read them for yourself and buy it for yourself.

The package is also great as we are used to, when Reaper Records take care of it; the eleven inch band zine in thick paper, the various colours pressed. Have a taste of it yourself. There are 3500 records pressed in first pressing with seven variations in it.

Pressing information:

• oxblood red vinyl (400 copies pressed)
• oxblood and black split vinyl with white splatter (500 copies pressed)
• black vinyl (400 copies pressed)
• oxblood red with white swirl vinyl (1500 copies pressed)
• white vinyl (200 copies pressed)
• clear red vinyl (numbered out of 300 copies pressed)
• ultra clear clear vinyl (numbered out of 200 copies pressed)

Too bad Victory Records didn’t allow orders for the cassettes outside of the Unted States. But I kept and wrote down the pressing info on them; three colours of tapes with the following breakdown:

• grey tape out of 150 copies made
• red tape out of 100 copies made
• yellow tape out of 50 copies made

So the tape pressing has 300 copies in total.

Still one hundred percent Terror musically although I think the album gets better and better as it develops. The song “Shot Of Reality” is the best part of the album I find personally. The songs before this song are good as well but don’t offer much variety compared to the earlier albums. Those songs don’t have the spice of the last part of the album.

Anyway that’s it, buy the record at Reaper Records or Merchpit .com.