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Terminal Fuzz Terror Post New Video for “Senseless Boogie”

Posted in Whathaveyou on June 25th, 2015 by JJ Koczan

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Seattle four-piece Terminal Fuzz Terror pretty clearly have a thing for severe statements. The experimental heavy rockers made their full-length debut in March on Robotic Empire with Vol. 0: In the Shadow of the Mountain (not sure if it’s the one they’re talking about, but I hear Rainier is lovely), and that too had its sharpened edges, the Tad Doyle-recorded tracks quick to turn riffy convention on its head to suit punkishly defiant purposes. In their new video for “Senseless Boogie,” one again finds Terminal Fuzz Terror pushing toward the edge of abrasion for the sake of going against the norm.

It’s an admirable goal, but I’d hardly call the boogie senseless. The boogie is its own excuse for being.

Nonetheless, it’s a killer track and anyone trying to be a wrench in the apparently-ceaseless gears of genre tropes is cool by me. News of its arrival and the video itself follow, courtesy of the PR wire:

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MOTOSONIC PSYCH-ROCKERS TERMINAL FUZZ TERROR RELEASE NEW VIDEO ONLINE

The video for “Senseless Boogie”, the newest single from Terminal Fuzz Terror’s Robotic Empre debut, Vol.0: In the Shadow of the Mountain, is now streaming online.

Combining live footage with esoteric drag racing carnage, the video for “Senseless Boogie” is just as chaotic, unhinged, and groovy as the music itself. The Video was filmed by Seattle Photographer/Director Chris Mighton and marks his first collaboration with the band.

ABOUT THE BAND: Terminal Fuzz Terror is a Seattle based Motosonic Rock band comprised of D. Rodriguez (guitar, vocals), D. Nelson (guitar, vocals), A. Crawshaw (drums) and J. Kleine (bass) who unleash a raw fury of rock n’ roll drifted through the filters of punk, psychedelia and blues on their vinyl debut, Vol. 0: In The Shadow Of The Mountain. Pummelling percussion and wailing riffs accompany a vocal delivery that channels an obliterated Jim Morrison at the height of religious revelry! The magnanimous 17-minute title track B-side closes the album with a long form, slow burning mind melter.

Vol. 0: In The Shadow Of The Mountain was recorded at Witch Ape Studio, engineered and mixed by Tad Doyle (TAD) and mastered by James Plotkin. Vinyl edition comes housed in a silk screened jacket printed by drummer A. Crawshaw at Broken Press in Seattle, WA and is limited to 300 copies.

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Terminal Fuzz Terror Stream “Megalodon” from Vol. 0: In the Shadow of the Mountain

Posted in audiObelisk on February 16th, 2015 by JJ Koczan

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Named for its 17-minute closing track, Vol. 0: In the Shadow of the Mountain is the debut full-length from Seattle experimental heavy rockers Terminal Fuzz Terror, set to release limited-style on Robotic Empire March 3. It is an off-the-wall freakout beast that hearkens to multiple eras — ’60s psych meandering, ’70s riffing, ’90s purposeful weirdness, etc. — and in so doing is invariably of the modern moment: what navelgazing might be if you did it into other people’s bellybuttons; a broken mirror showing different angles of an already fractured reality. Plus it grooves!

Opener “Senseless Boogie” would seem to tell the whole tale, but in truth it’s only part of the story, and whether it’s the funtime freakout of “Zealousy” or the psych-punk thrust of centerpiece “Megalodon,” the four-piece of guitarist/vocalists D. Rodriguez and D. Nelson, bassist J. Kleine and drummer A. Crawshaw hone a chaotic swirl that feels like it could at any point fly off the handle entirely. Likewise the repeated echoing incantations of “Cycles,” which seems to call Satan not so much to spread misery and hellishness over terminal fuzz terror vol. 0 in the shadow of the mountainthe earth, but rather to crack a beer and mess around with effects pedals, and of course “In the Shadow of the Mountain,” the monolithic semi-title-track is a focal point — at just a little less than half the 36-minute runtime, there’s no way it wouldn’t be — but rather than get lost in their own grandiosity, Terminal Fuzz Terror turn plod into ritual before warping into one last high-speed wah-drenched jam, paying off what’s come before, sure, but also breathing life into a form of space rock that’s more than Hawkwind idolatry and flange overload.

If you feel like you can dig it, you’re probably right. “Megalodon” is available for streaming on the player below, and by way of a heads up, look out for near-immediate push, obscure garage-echo vocals and weirdo breaks, a biting tonal mania rife with unhinged churn that cleverly masks just how structured the song actually is. Terminal Fuzz Terror are hardly traditional in the verse/chorus sense, but there are themes to latch onto throughout Vol. 0: In the Shadow of the Mountain, and “Megalodon” works quickly to establish its own amid the cosmic reverb captured by Tad Doyle at his Studio Witch Ape and mastered by James Plotkin.

One more time, vinyl is out March 3 in finite quantities. Album info follows the player:

Terminal Fuzz Terror is a Seattle-based band comprised of D. Rodriguez (guitar, vocals), D. Nelson (guitar, vocals), A. Crawshaw (drums) and J. Kleine (bass). Drummer Crawshaw also runs the Seattle based screen printing monolith Broken Press, who printed the jacket for TFT’s hand assembled, limited release. Their vinyl debut, Vol 0: In The Shadow Of The Mountain, was recorded at Witch Ape Studio, engineered and mixed by Tad Doyle (TAD) and mastered by James Plotkin.

Limited to 300 copies and including a high-quality digital download, 50 special deluxe versions of the record will include an embroidered 4″ round patch and come packaged in a tote bag.

Vol 0: In The Shadow Of The Mountain is Terminal Fuzz Terror’s strongest work to date, and is available digitally to pre-order now, with vinyl available via Robotic Empire on March 3rd.

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