Hordes of Zombies

Occupation

• Vocals: Anthony Rezhawk
• Electric Guitar: Katina Culture
• E -Bass: David Vincent
• Drums: Pete Sandoval

Hordes of Zombies is the third studio album by American grindcore band Terrorizer. It was released by the French independent label Season of Mist on 24 February 2012.

Formation

In September 2008, Pete Sandoval ( Morbid Angel drummer ) by Anthony Rezhawk was asked if he was interested on a new album with Terrorizer. Sandoval said, and took Rezhawk as guitarist Katina Culture added by his band Resistant Culture. After completion of the ongoing tour activities with Morbid Angel, the three musicians recorded a demo with which their band manager applied at various record labels. In spring 2011, it was officially announced that Terrorizer has signed a record deal with Season of Mist and that the new album will be released in early 2012. All tracks on the album were written by Anthony Rezhawk and Katina Culture.

The operation of Pete Sandoval at the discs not disabled the recordings because he had recorded his drum tracks in January 2009. David Vincent ( Morbid Angel bassist ) came at the last minute as a bass player to the recordings, although already a session bassist was dedicated. His involvement was an idea of the label Season of Mist, the hoped for because of the published in June 2011, Morbid Angel album illud divinum insanus a promotional effect for the album by Terrorizer. The album was produced by Dan Swanö.

The band looks Hordes of zombies as a concept album, because the songs are about the content of a basic theme. This Rezhawk want to see the term zombie as a metaphor for the exploitation of nature by man. Zombies stood that humanity is for their own good and for convenience against nature and so conjures up their own demise. The album cover is from the Berlin artist Nesha.

Reviews

Writes Michael Edele of laut.de that the album "sound technically powerful and differentiated ," but it rarely succeed to build into the fast pace of the pieces aha moments. Although guitarist Katina Culture succeed one way or another good idea, but singer Rezhawk could put vocally no accents. Mathias Freiesleben of powermetal.de however, thinks that Hordes of Zombies setting standards for 2012 and says that the album " Grind -class " offer. Also for the reviewers of whiskey - soda.de is Hordes of Zombies a " masterpiece" and a " must-have for any Death Grinders." He describes the album as " incredibly high quality ," says the rhythm section with bassist David Vincent, and drummer Pete Sandoval and the guitar work of Katina Culture, but he also criticized the sometimes monotonous sounding vocals of Anthony Rezhawk. Patrick Schmidt from Rock Hard was disappointed. Although Hordes of Zombies is a solid Death Grind album, but was too predictable and do not have much to do with the previous Terrorizer.

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Comments

• Album in 2012
• Album ( Grindcore )