TERROR 2000 - Terror For Sale
March 29, 2006, 18 years ago
(Nuclear Blast)
Bjorn’s now out there putting into action what all of us used to joke about: that you can blather anything in a death vocal and it sounds heavy. Only he’s gone one step further and splashed all his wiseacre wisecracks into the booklet, also not hiding his humour behind tough titles – instead we get ‘Cheap Thrills’, ‘King Kong Song’, ‘Wrath Of The Cookie Monster’ and the blazing, amazing ‘Liquor Saved Me From Sports’. Actually, it’s all pretty bloody fast, and then you get a Strapping-style bit of arch-comedic melody, and then Speed’s back to ribbin’ himself about being bald, about hockey being for sissies (he actually was close to a hockey career before, er, liquor saved…). So no question, this is the new Witchery. That band circled the wagons and became a little more serious, while Terror 2000 just tossed all grimness and went full-on piss-take, even if 90% of the music is hard-edged, white-knuckle thrash exuberantly laid-out, passed-out, pissed-up. Like I say, your clue to scramble over to the booklet – one of the first in a long time that makes you stop and say, ‘Man, I gotta read this’ – comes with four or five of the choruses, the silliest being ‘King Kong Song’, which will likely polarize fans, or Yeti-ize fans, as it were. Closes with an “instrumental” which adds Speed as a Fantomas-like instrument, over a blastbeat blues song… yes, blues.
