Total Retaliation
Terror · 2018
28 min · 13 tracks · hardcore punk
Furious riffs and relentless rhythms collide with impassioned lyricism, creating a raw and unfiltered hardcore experience.
Top tracks — play these first
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This World Never Wanted Me — As the opening track, it sets a defiant tone with its aggressive instrumentation and introspective lyrics addressing alienation and struggle.
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Get Off My Back — This track captures the essence of hardcore punk's rebellious spirit while delivering a relentless beat and an anthem-like chorus that resonates with listeners seeking empowerment.
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Total Retaliation — The title track encapsulates the album's core theme of resistance and retribution, combining powerful lyrics with an explosive delivery that exemplifies Terror's signature sound.
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Suffer the Edge of the Lies — This song combines brutal honesty with intense instrumentation, illustrating the band's commitment to confronting societal issues head-on through their music.
Elevation
Our rating, out of 100 — and why.
AI-generated from five scored dimensions. An opinion, not a measurement.
The album delivers intense energy with strong compositions but has moments that disrupt its flow.
What we noticed
- The first six tracks maintain a relentless tempo with aggressive guitar riffs and fast-paced drumming, creating an unyielding energy.
- The album features a spoken-word interlude that breaks the flow before returning to high-intensity tracks, altering the momentum.
- Several songs incorporate gang vocals, emphasizing collective defiance and enhancing the raw emotional impact of the lyrics.
- Composition 25% of the score
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7/10
- Craft 20% of the score
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8/10
- Durability 25% of the score
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6/10
- Distinctiveness 18% of the score
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6/10
- Sequencing 12% of the score
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5/10
the writing — melody, harmony, structure, lyrics
production, performance, arrangement
whether it rewards returning to it
whether it sounds like itself
running order, pacing, length
Known within its scene. Reported but not counted — how far a record travelled describes its reception rather than the record, and a newer release has had less time to travel than an older one.
Is this for you?
Good fit if you like
- brief bursts of raw energy
- aggressive anthems for release
- for high-intensity workouts
- pummeling riffs with urgency
Maybe skip if you
- seekers of slow tempos
- prefer lengthy immersive journeys
Where this album fits
- Career context
- Released in 2018, Total Retaliation marked Terror's seventh studio album and followed their critically acclaimed record, The 25th Hour. At this point in their career, the band had solidified their position as a cornerstone of the beatdown hardcore scene while continuing to evolve their sound and message.
- Stylistic neighbors
- Hatebreed· Madball· Earth Crisis
Tracklist
Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.
- 1 This World Never Wanted Me 2:10
- 2 Mental Demolition 2:07
- 3 Get Off My Back 2:28
- 4 One More Enemy 2:23
- 5 Break the Lock 1:21
- 6 In Spite of These Times 2:22
- 7 Total Retaliation 1:52
- 8 Post Armageddon Interlude 1:34
- 9 Spirit of Sacrifice 2:24
- 10 I Don’t Know You 2:12
- 11 Behind the Bars 2:30
- 12 Suffer the Edge of the Lies 2:02
- 13 Resistant to the Changes 3:01
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