Terrifyer

2004 studio album by Pig Destroyer

Terrifyer

Studio album by

Pig Destroyer

Released

October 12, 2004 (2004-10-12)

Recorded

August 2002 – July 2004

Studio

Brian Harvey's home
Visceralsound (Bethesda, Maryland)

Genre

Grindcore

Length

32:16

Label

Relapse

Producer

Scott Hull

Pig Destroyer chronology

Painter of Dead Girls
(2004)

Terrifyer
(2004)

Pig Destroyer / Coldworker / Antigama split
(2007)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Lambgoat	^[2]
PopMatters	positive^[3]
Punknews.org	^[4]

Terrifyer is the third studio album by American grindcore band Pig Destroyer. It was released in 2004 by Relapse Records.

The album includes a second disc recorded in DVD-Audio and mixed with 5.1 surround sound. The disc contains one sludge metal song called "Natasha". The Japanese release of Terrifyer includes four bonus tracks, and includes "Natasha" as a second CD instead of a DVD. "Natasha" was reissued on a regular CD as a separate release in 2008. The album booklet features a six-page story of how Natasha became the "Terrifyer". Some copies of Terrifyer were released with a slip of paper on the cover to hide the artwork.

In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked Terrifyer as 88th on their list of "The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time".^[5] "Gravedancer" appeared on the Tony Hawk's American Wasteland soundtrack as a cut down 1:47 version (ending where the sample begins).

Track listing

All lyrics are written by J. R. Hayes

Disc one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Intro"	0:41
2.	"Pretty in Casts"	1:16
3.	"Boy Constrictor"	0:58
4.	"Scarlet Hourglass"	0:57
5.	"Thumbsucker"	1:33
6.	"Gravedancer"	3:01
7.	"Lost Cause"	0:54
8.	"Sourheart"	0:53
9.	"Towering Flesh"	3:35
10.	"Song of Filth"	0:41
11.	"Verminess"	1:16
12.	"Torture Ballad"	1:21
13.	"Restraining Order Blues"	1:32
14.	"Carrion Fairy"	2:30
15.	"Downpour Girl"	1:30
16.	"Soft Assassin"	1:27
17.	"Dead Carnations"	1:30
18.	"Crippled Horses"	1:34
19.	"The Gentleman"	1:23
20.	"Crawl of Time"	1:30
21.	"Terrifyer"	2:12
22.	"Dress in Gasoline" (Japanese bonus track)	1:56
23.	"The Cutting Room" (Japanese bonus track)	0:51
24.	"Blurface" (Japanese bonus track)	0:48
25.	"Doomspell" (Japanese bonus track)	2:18

Disc two (Japanese version)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Natasha"	37:55

DVD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Natasha" (DVD-Audio)	37:55

Accolades

Publication	Accolade	Rank	Ref.
Kerrang!	Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2004	15	^[6]
Loudwire	10 Best Metal Albums of 2004	8	^[7]
Loudwire	Top 100 Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Albums of the 21st Century	51	^[8]
Loudwire	Top 25 Extreme Metal Albums of All Time	25	^[9]
Rolling Stone	The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time	88	^[10]
Treblezine	Treble's Top 100 Metal Albums	46	^[11]

Personnel

Brian Harvey – drums
J. R. Hayes – vocals, design
Scott Hull – guitars, bass ("Natasha"), engineering, production, mastering
Matthew Mills – solo ("Towering Flesh")
Richard "Grindfather" Johnson – vocals ("Crawl of Time")
Katherine Katz – vocals ("Lost Cause")
Chris Taylor – art
Jonathan Canady – design
Matthew F. Jacobson – executive production

References

^ Raggett, Ned. "Terrifyer review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
^ Cory. "Terrifyer review". Lambgoat. December 23, 2004. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
^ Begrand, Adrien (October 24, 2004). "Pig Destroyer: Terrifyer". PopMatters. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
^ Aubin, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Terrifyer review". Punk News. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
^ "Rolling Stone Share Their Choices For 'The 100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time'". The PRP. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
^ "Kerrang! Albums Of The Year 2004". Rock List Music. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
^ Divita, Joe. "10 Best Metal Albums of 2004". Loudwire. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
^ "Top 100 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 21st Century". Loudwire. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
^ Divita, Joe. "Top 25 Extreme Metal Albums of All Time". Loudwire. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
^ Weingarten, Christopher. "The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
^ "Treble's Top 100 Metal Albums". Treblezine. Retrieved July 17, 2019.