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Here's an ooooold find I bought in the late '90s. Quick background: the guys in Terminus (Peter Johnson and Derek Norberg) were in an early '90s Boston thrash band called Heresy who relocated to California and dissolved at some point.
The music on this mCD is industrialized metal, with the main industrial element being the programmed percussion--there are actually no "regular" drum sounds, it's all repetitive factory sounding noises like the sound of an anvil being struck and various beats, chinks, and clinks. There is also a single instance of sampling, but that's the only industrial. The vocals are fairly generic gruff singing with none of the usual annoying industrial effects or processing, but the vox often have an odd stilted cadence to match the background rhythms. Not unexpectedly due to the members' previous band, the guitarwork is very thrash based. It's a shame because the first song has a nice main riff that would have worked well in a more traditional thrash framework with real drumming.
I don't have much of a tolerance for most industrial "metal" (apart from drum machine black metal of the Helheim and Mysticum variety), so I do appreciate that this only has limited industrial influences and it's listenable. Then again, there are thousands of other bands without the industrial stuff in them that I'd rather listen to...
Reissue of Heresy demos please?
