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Beyond Terror Beyond Grace

Extinction | Salvation

About Me

Beyond Terror Beyond Grace is a 4-piece grindcore band from the Blue Mountains, Australia. The band was formed in August 2004 by Bart (vocals), Ben Terror (guitar), Alex (bass) and Steve (drums).
Our sound is a mix of straight grind with a liberal dose of crust/punk and extreme metal influence with a lyrical focus on existence/society/humanity from a political and philosophical perspective.
We have released an EP (‘Still Human, Still Humane?’) in 2005 and a debut album (‘Extinction | Salvation’) in late 2007 on Grindhead Records. The album was recorded and mixed by Chad Halford and Erik Miehs (ex/current members of The Amenta) in December 2006 and mastered by Tim Carr (soviet records) at Studio 301 Sydney.
Each song on the "Extinction | Salvation" album was recorded live in the studio with no editing or digital manipulation. The intention of the record was to capture the intense and raw qualities of a live atmosphere.
We started playing live in late 2005 and have since played in Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Hobart and Brisbane with a diverse and brutal range of overseas and Australian bands such as Behemoth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Cephalic Carnage, Insect Warfare, Ulcerate, Kataklysm, Skinless, Psycroptic, The Amenta, Blood Duster, Extortion, The Day Everything Became Nothing, Captain Cleanoff, Agents of Abhorrence, The Rivalry, Slowly Building Weapons, Fuck...I'm Dead, Ebolie, Five Star Prison Cell, Rather Be Dead, Dining in Tuscany, The Ocularis Infernum, Los Diablos, Robotosaurus, The Thaw, Meat Wallet, Crux, Fattura Della Morte and Equal Minded.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/9/2005
Band Members: Bart - Vocals
Ben Terror - Guitar
Alex - Bass
Steve - Drums
Influences: Rotten Sound
Napalm Death
Nasum
Brutal Truth
Pig Destroyer
Minor Threat
Psycroptic
Circle of Dead Children
The Amenta
Discordance Axis
Isis
Genghis Tron
Skitsystem
His Hero Is Gone
Converge
Godflesh
Captain Cleanoff

EXTINCTION|SALVATION

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GRINDHEAD RECORDS SAYS : "Extinction|Salvation will engulf your senses with nineteen tracks of inhumanly dense and intense grindcore. The group fuse the grind stylings of old with a crushing hybrid of modern grind, crust and punk with a smattering of death metal. Taking the best parts of Napalm Death’s raw, intense and wholly uncompromising political punk-influenced aural assault, Beyond Terror have reinvigorated the grindcore blueprint by incorporating elements of modern extreme groups such as Rotten Sound, Discordance Axis and Circle of Dead Children.

The end product is a skull-crushingly intense piece of Australian grindcore that has sealed Beyond Terror Beyond Grace’s place amongst the nations top tier of extreme music - joining the likes of The Kill, Captain Cleanoff, Agents of Abhorrence and Fuck I’m Dead. This is an outstandingly powerful and intelligent release from one of the hardest working bands in the Australian music scene - and an absolute essential for any grindhead."

PYROMUSIC.NET SAYS:"BTBG combine the dynamics of grinding death metal riffs with punk drumming and grindcore’s frantic, incomprehensible vocal onslaught. For a bunch of guys who just finished high school it’s a spectacularly old-school approach that eschews all sense of melody and technicality while focusing on blatant tear-your-head-off overkill. They’ve learned well from their masters and with its deliberately understated packaging and decent production Extinction|Salvation has set Beyond Terror Beyond Grace up for what could be a bright future on the grind circuit."

THE STIX SAYS:"This is thinking mans grindcore, a breath of fresh air in a very cluttered and stifling genre and a band with a great future to embrace."

ADRENALIN FANZINE SAYS:"I introduce you all to BTBG. I classify them as progressive grind, but only in the lyrical sense. The music is awesome grind/death/punk. Old-school feeling, old-school sounding, and yet a refreshing, revitalizing breath of fresh mountain grind… air. "Extinction|Salvation" is 19 tracks (26 minutes) of ungorificated, sample-less death/grind bursts with unusual lyrical messages. Messages written with metaphors and similes so that you have to consider and digest the messages included, as opposed to having it spelled out for you, with you learning nothing more than a few more medical terms for newly exposed body parts coated in a cocktail of bodily secretions. Just to give you an idea of the direction BTBG takes the listener in, song-titles include "Smiling In The Face Of Despair", "Reinvention Ghost", "Born And Raised", "Unattainable" and "Apathy And Acceptance".

VINCENT OVER THE SINK SAYS:"New BTBG is like a lion fed Bull Terrier rampaging thru a city throwing napalm and snarling like the noise gods!!!"

DEATHDOOM METAL WEBZINE SAYS: "Time for another chaos filled helping from Grindhead Records this time in the shape of the enigmatic BEYOND TERROR BEYOND GRACE. Rather than being out and out grindcore, a style they do heavily lean towards, they have packed out their album with amazing head banging moments created by startling rolling riffs. Not only that but their music is thoroughly diverse with fantastic tempo changes that almost border on Doom Like in places. From start to finish "Extinction/Salvation" is a masterpiece, mournful, sorrowful yet totally in your face and packing more fire power than the evil warlord Bush’s arsenal. Rating = DDDD - Doomtastic (4/5)"

BLUNT MAGAZINE SAYS: " Extinction|Salvation sees major advances in all departments, from production to the music to the understated cover artwork. With a style that might not unflatteringly be described as grindcore and nothing besides, they absolutely refuse to give your poor head a single moments rest. Special mention should go to the skinwork of Steve who is the sort of drummer other drummers wank over. 7/10"

AUSTRALIA ORDERS
$18 AUD postage paid
REST OF THE WORLD ORDERS
$15 USD postage paid
Sounds Like: Grindcore with crust/metal elements
Record Label: Grindhead Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

BTBG Interviews

This interview will appear in next weeks Drum Media (sydney street press) Your music is&? grindcore with crust/punk, black/death metal and noise influence*Which acts inspired you to produce your own m...
Posted by Beyond Terror Beyond Grace on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:57:00 PST

Radelaide

Big shout outs to everyone who grinded with us in A-town last week. its getting boring to say and probably boring for you to listen to but we really love coming down and shooting the br...
Posted by Beyond Terror Beyond Grace on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:46:00 PST

CD REVIEWS - *UPDATED*

Extinction|Salvation Reviews - Updated April 2008 BLUNT MAGAZINE SAYS: " Extinction|Salvation sees major advances in all departments, from production to the music to the understated cover artwork. Wit...
Posted by Beyond Terror Beyond Grace on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:56:00 PST

CD available at RED EYE RECORDS, SYDNEY + REPRESSED RECORDS, PENRITH

BTBG's CD Extinction|Salvation is now available for $15 at: RED EYE RECORDS66 King St SYDNEY (btwn George and York sts)Metal shop is upstairs REPRESSED RECORDSStation Street, Penrith Also at gigs,&nb...
Posted by Beyond Terror Beyond Grace on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:44:00 PST

EXTINCTION | SALVATION - debut BTBG album

'Extinction | Salvation' - The debut album from Beyond Terror Beyond Grace is ready to be released on Grindhead Records. The album was recorded and mixed by Chad Halford and Erik Miehs (ex and current...
Posted by Beyond Terror Beyond Grace on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:53:00 PST

BTBG CAN PLAY GIGS AGAIN AFTER NOVEMBER 7TH SO BOOK US !!!

For the next few months playing shows will be hard due to outside commitments but from November 7th onwards we'll be hitting any gig that can come our way in Sydney and interstate. november shoul...
Posted by Beyond Terror Beyond Grace on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:30:00 PST

THE DAY(s) BTBG RECORDED GRIND

In late 2006 BTBG had agreed to contribute songs (about 10 minutes of music) to a 3 way split with Brainwash (Spain) and Onanizer (Czech Republic). We had a lot of trouble working out which songs to ...
Posted by Beyond Terror Beyond Grace on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:46:00 PST

BTBG FINISH LAYING DOWN TRACKS FOR DEBUT FULL LENGTH

23 tracks for both the debut BTBG full length and a split release with Brainwash (Spain) and Onanizer (Czech Republic) have been recorded at Nailgun brutalworx. Both releases will be out on Grindhead ...
Posted by Beyond Terror Beyond Grace on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:50:00 PST

6 WAY SPLIT CD featuring INGROWING to be released in 2007

Sometime in 2007 BTBG will feature on this split. It will be released in Thailand and hopefully distributed rest of the world. We will let you know when it is available from BTBG. 6-way split CD INGR...
Posted by Beyond Terror Beyond Grace on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:29:00 PST

BTBG/BRAINWASH/ONANIZER SPLIT UPDATE

Looks like we are going to be doing a 3 way split CD out on Grindhead Records with BRAINWASH (spain) and ONANIZER (czech rep.) in the near future. Check out these brutal European g...
Posted by Beyond Terror Beyond Grace on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:15:00 PST