Terrifyer

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

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]

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

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

All lyrics are written by J. R. Hayes

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

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