A Somewhat Summarized History and Account of Several Punches To the Nose However, if you’ve somehow managed to remain oblivious to the band’s work over the years, or if you’re the type who enjoys taking a walk down memory lane in a pair of beat-up, puffy high-tops… There is no remastering or bonus material here it simply takes everything the band delivered from 1987, 19 and puts it into a convenient pile. How necessary the collection is depends entirely on whether or not you have the first two albums and the El Revengo comp, and whether or not those copies have managed to survive extensive use over the years.
This latest compilation via Dissonance Productions (also responsible for Holy Terror guitarist Mike Alvord’s latest band, Mindwars) collects everything the band has delivered, minus Dark Descent’s vinyl remaster of their 1986 demo and three live shows via 2015’s Guardians of the Netherworld: A Tribute to Keith Deen, and puts it all into one extremely affordable compact disc boxset. Label: Dissonance Productions.Terror and Submission and Mind Wars are both great underground works in the speed/thrash realm, and they’ve seen official (fairly limited) runs on LP, cassette and CD through approximately six different labels over three decades. Therefore, it remains vital that the great works always have a means of getting into the people’s hands, even if the amount of hands isn’t as many as we’d like them to be.
Sure, it won’t remodel the guest bathroom, but knowing that you’ve created something that’s truly revered and serves as a compelling influence for others moving forward-that’s the sort of thing that makes the heart swell during those quiet, reflective hours. A band such as this probably didn’t pull in a lot of cheddar for all their efforts in 1987/88, and the likelihood that yet another repress of two classic records will net the surviving members anything more than a week’s worth of coffee seems equally improbable.īut let’s not minimize the value of esteem. But Holy Terror’s relatively brief stop under the accent lights of center stage happened so long ago, and today’s culture throws so many new bands into listeners’ ears every week that trying to get the crew their proper due thirty years later almost seems futile. This raises the question: If you spend enough time being considered underrated by more and more people over time, won’t you eventually become, you know, not underrated? Perhaps.
Ask any encyclopedic heavy metal relic trundling through the streets who he/she would pick as the 80s Most Underrated Thrash Band and you’ll inevitably end up with a stack of votes thrown toward LA’s Holy Terror.
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