This is the first album I have bought on itunes of the hardcore “genre”(gross term #2). What I realized is what I knew before; hardcore doesn’t work on itunes. It wasn’t until Eddie Sutton jumped on Close to Defeat and I realized there are things on the record that I was unable to reference, all I had was music on an ipod. Now to review Terror’s “Always the Hard Way.” Taking the title of my life story, Terror delivers again. On first listen, I thought, “ok another terror record”, almost formula terror, delivered powerfully and consistently. Upon letting my thoughts go, I was taken in on all the subtleties and little things that spending time with it can only bring and thus realized, like I have said before, wtf is wrong with knowing what you do? And do well? The dudes drinking the hatorade of the hardest of the hardcore can put this in the convenient box, with the Madball, and close it so that nothing reminds them they have a pussy and sit when they piss and they will. Me? I am going to blast my new Terror record. The guitar work seems totally taken up a notch, they are more epic in their deliveries. A little Born to Expire influence? After being unable to identify another cameo on the record, I hit Vogel and crew on myspace and they told me: Aaron from Death Threat sings on You Can't Break Me.

- D