Terror

Having captured the undivided attention of the world wide hardcore scene in 2004, the LA based Terror are as aggressive as ever.

Doug Weber called in to talk about metal, face plants and Earth Crisis…

By Cameron Chambers

Good man, how’s it going? 

I’m pretty sick to be honest

man. Where are you calling from? 

That sucks. I’m just chilling

in San Francisco. 

You guys are at the tail end

of a South American tour yeah?  

Yeah, we just got home yesterday

actually.  

How did the

America and those in South America? 

The shows were great actually.

They were pretty big! Not many bands have a chance to go down there

so the people were just really excited that we were there. Tons of people

came out and yeah, they were just excited to have some music down there.  

Going back to 2007, you guys

label for the EP? 

Well, our contract was up with

Trustkill and we wanted a fresh start on a new label that would be excited

about us, so we chose Century Media because we felt their presence is

a lot better than Trustkill’s worldwide.  

We’ve got licensing deals in

other parts of the world through different labels in different countries

so they’re not really pushing us. This way we have one label all over

the world that will actually advertise our record and push it.  

Were you intending to do an

out your label situation? 

The songs from the EP were actually

the B-Sides from “Always The Hard Way”. The label is run by a friend

of ours called Patrick and he approached us about releasing them. We

weren’t going to use them for anything so we agreed to do it.

How did your signing with Century

Media come about? Did you approach them or was it vice versa?  

It was kind of both actually.

We knew we wanted to sign to a new label so we demo’d five songs and

sent them out to a ton of labels. They were the label that showed the

most interest and they seemed to be the most excited about putting the

record out.  

There were labels offering us

more money but they weren’t as excited as Century Media. We went with

them because hopefully they’ll push the record a bit harder.  

Century Media has built its

they offer a band like Terror? 

I don’t know man. I mean, look

at the back catalogue. They did a lot of hardcore in their early days.

They put out records from the Cro-Mags, Sick Of It All, Ignite, Turmoil

and they did an old Merauder record too.  

They know how to market a hardcore

record but anyway, I think these days there’s such a fine line between

hardcore and metal that it doesn’t really matter.  

Do you think the change in

transcends the hardcore scene? 

Yeah, I definitely hope that happens

too. At this point we’ve been doing hardcore shows for six years straight,

so if you like hardcore and listen to it then you should know who Terror

is by now. 

We want to keep advancing as a

band but we need to play to new people to do that so hopefully we can

get some new fans through Century Media.  

Your new record

been through and your natural growth as a group? 

It sounds like a natural progression

from our last record. The structures are better and we threw some guitar

solos in. There’s more double bass too! That stuff wasn’t intended,

we just wrote the songs and that’s what came out. 

I know every band says their new

record is their best but I’m really proud of this one. I listen to

it a lot more than our other records so we’re all pretty stoked on

it. With a new label and a new record I’m just hoping that people

will dig it.  

You guys had Zeuss (Hatebreed,

as possible? 

He didn’t try to change the

songs or anything like that. We demo’d the whole record before we

went in and he listened to the shitty recording and didn’t change

anything, ha ha. He just made it sound good!  

The press release that accompanied

compare it to previous Terror releases? 

Um, I dunno, ha ha. I’m not

one to say that we put out the best record of the year but it’s definitely

a solid record. I dunno, I hope people like it as much as we do. I’m

not going to say it’s the best or worst record the year though, ha

ha. 

Terror was selected as the

band? 

The tour was great man. I was

curious to see how it would go… to see if people still remembered

Earth Crisis. There were a lot of people there who liked all the bands

and it went down really well with such a diverse line up. 

The shows were awesome and it

was cool hanging out with those dudes. We’d love to do another tour

like that again.  

On the touring front, when

can we expect to see you guys back in Australia? 

There’s talk about us coming

back later this year although we heard we might do the Soundwave Festival

next year. I’m not too sure though, hopefully by the end of this year

or early next year.  

We’ve got time to fit in

less serious… 

Yeah man, go for it.  

Favourite place you’ve travelled

to with the band?  

Australia man. Every time we go

there it’s more like a vacation than anything. The people are laid

back and we get treated well and the shows are always awesome.  

Favourite album at the moment?

What have I been listening to

a lot? Shit! I don’t really listen to newer stuff. I listen to a lot

of classic rock so I’m into Thin Lizzy at the moment, ha ha.  

Most embarrassing on-stage

experience? 

One time I was running kind of

fast because we were playing this huge outdoor stage and our old bass

player was playing with a cable and I had a wireless. Anyway, I was

funning fast and his cable got caught on my leg and he ran the other

way and ripped my leg out and I smashed my face on the stage in front

of about a thousand people, ha ha.  

Most ridiculous thing you’ve

done for a buck? 

Pissed my pants or something,

ha ha.  

Pre-Bad or Post-Bad Michael Jackson? 

Pre-Bad for sure. Michael Jackson

was the shit back in the day!  

That’s all we’ve got

time for Doug, is there anything else you’d like to add? 

Awesome man, I don’t think

I’ve got anything else to say though, ha ha.  

Thanks for your time mate.