TERROR’s reign across the heavier side of the hardcore pit has been going on for nearly two and a half decades. With their 10th studio album, Still Suffer, arriving on new label home Flatspot Records — an ascendent hardcore force which has given us some of the best next gen artists born from this very band’s influence like SPEED and END IT — their existence as one of the modern scene’s most seminal pillars is not only solidified, but is something to celebrate, too. And besides the flowery moment of it all, anyone who has taken a beat to look outside their window or doomscrolled lately knows this is reason enough as to why we need TERROR in our lives more than ever.

Pressure cooked by hardcore mixologist Jon Markson (DRAIN, Drug Church) in a listen clocking in at just under a half hour, there’s 10 brutalist brain busters here ready to smash through brick walls with. That’s not just because God’s Hate and future AEW champ Brody King links up with the crew on “Deconstruct It” either. Each track hears the Los Angeles band — fronted by the unimitable Scott Vogel alongside guitarists Jordan Posner and Martin Stewart, bassist Chris Linkovich, and drummer Nick Jett — taking on the pain we encounter daily and giving you the intention with intensity to survive it, even if it means eviscerating others from the world around you (“Erase You From My World”) or burning your own ego down to the fucking ground (“Destruction Of My Soul”.) Beneath the hard outer shell, Terror’s strength is in their wisdom era of acknowledging weaknesses as a strength (the Chuck Ragan-bolstered anthem “Fear The Panic”, the soulful hip-hop-prefaced thrash of “Beauty In the Losses”). With that scene vet self-awareness, the band’s music further grows its creative peaks.

Consider this as TERROR’s reign getting its umpteenth wind, but if you needed a reminder of how much life they’ve given to this scene over the years, stick around for the silence past the album’s tail end. There, voice memos tacked on featuring everyone from trailblazers in Youth of Today’s Sammy Siegler and Hatebreed’s Florida Frank to its future in HAYWIRE’s Austin Sparkman drop their love to the Keepers of the Faith over a lo-fi beat produced by Jay Peta of Mindforce. If it hasn’t already hit you by then, then it really begins to at that point: Still Suffer is not just a story about hardcore survivalism, but the community built around them that helps keeps their heads above ground.

Highlights: “Destruction Of My Soul”, “Fear The Panic”, “Beauty In The Losses”

Terror’s Still Suffer is available now on Flatspot Records.

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