Band:	Terrorizer
Album:	Darker Days Ahead
Style:	Death metal, Grindcore
Release date:	2006
A review by:	Herzebeth

01. Inevitable
02. Darker Days Ahead
03. Crematorium
04. Fallout
05. Doomed Forever
06. Mayhem
07. Blind Army
08. Nightmare
09. Legacy Of Brutality
10. Dead Shall Rise
11. Victim Of Greed
12. Ghost Train

A Quickie For You

The first idea was for me to write a really long review about this album, I mean it's Terrorizer's comeback, I was waiting for a brain-crushing session filled with blasting tracks, complex songwriting and overwhelming music?and oh dear crap all I got was this?? So the album did not give me enough material for a long review, so here's what I acquired from it.

This album is one of the most average releases this year, one of the biggest letdowns ever in metal history and a living proof that a lot of money does wrong to comebacks; I'm not even going to talk about David Vincent not being there or about the new vocalist being totally dreadful, mainly because I'll be able to kill the album with the music alone. The whole idea of bringing a really old band (with two of the original members) back to breathe was cool enough indeed, their debut called World Downfall is a classic so why not? Well, I now know that some bands need to stay dead for good. Terrorizer came back with average riffs, half-decent structures and boring songwriting at best.

The music is aggressive, raw and quite brutal no doubt, but I already know more than 900 bands that can offer those exact same things; there's nothing really remarkable in this album except for the re-edition of "Dead Shall Rise" which was originally released in 1989 (that's just very sad once you think of it). In the end, Terrorizer totally lost the battle against bands like Deicide, Suffocation, Unleashed or Vader, their music sound totally loosened and really uninspired, their songwriting sounds aged (in a bad way), the production sounds like mud and the structures could be easily played by any average band that pops into your mind right now.

A wise man recently told me "You can't expect a blasting comeback after 17 years of band's instability"; I wish I had listened to that guy instead of losing 40 minutes of my life listening to this thing. Terrorizer is an awesome band, buy their debut album World Downfall and lets pretend that Darker Days Ahead never existed.

Highly Average!!!

Worst Tracks: "Ghost Train", "Inevitable" (both horrendous fillers), "Nightmare", "Darker Days Ahead".