Hardcore legends Terror have announced a new studio album, Pain Into Power, set for release this coming May. After spending 20 years together as a unit, this latest effort will be their eighth full length. To kick-off the lead to the record’s release, Terror dropped a brand new track titled “Can’t Help But Hate” which features guest vocals from George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher of Cannibal Corpse.
“I obviously know Terror,” discusses vocalist Scott Vogel, “but this album still hit me harder than I expected. When people listen to this album, I hope they think ‘this is Terror, but this is the Terror record I was hoping for and needed,’ and it hits them harder than we’ve hit them before.”. Before adding, “We’ve always walked that line between positivity and negativity,” Vogel mentions. “Songs that are pure anger and songs that say ‘the world’s a shitty place but you’ve got the inner strength–and maybe this music and this scene–to help you through it.’ But a lot of these new songs are very angry and dark. I’ve tried my best to stay positive but, with this vibe of unrelenting musical destruction, it was a little bit harder to bring out that positive side.”.
Pain Into Power will follow on from 2018’s Total Retaliation, which features now live set staple “This World Never Wanted Me“. Those who went to see Terror on their co-headliner with Knocked Loose last February would have been blessed with seeing this live alongside classic “Keepers Of The Faith“. Madison Watkins of fellow hardcore unit, Year of the Knife, will feature on track “Unashamed” alongside Crystal Pak of Initiate. To finish off the set of features on Pain Into Power, former member Todd Jones, now of Nails, will feature on track “The Hardest Truth“. Todd Jones has returned to writing for Terror alongside Vogel on this record, after originally leaving in 2004.
When it came to once again working with Jones, Vogel explains “Todd’s whole approach to, and vision for, this record was to make it just full-on aggression from the minute it starts to the minute it ends. That goes back to our first EP, Lowest Of The Low, which Todd was writing on. This album is maybe even more turned-up, even faster, even more abrasive. Terror post-Todd has stayed the course along that aggressive, hard-hitting, fast, in-your-face hardcore that doesn’t stray from the path too much–but he really wanted this one to be straight insanity that doesn’t let up.”
Pain Into Power will release on May 6th via End Hits Records. You can pre-order the record, and view the albums artwork and tracklist below. For a full review of Pain Into Power and further Terror news, stick with Boolin Tunes.
1. Pain into Power
2. Unashamed
3. Boundless Contempt
4. Outside the Lies
5. One Thousand Lies
6. Can’t Let It Go
7. Can’t Help but Hate
8. The Hardest Truth
9. On the Verge of Violence
10. Prepare for the Worst