Beyond Terror Beyond Grace - Extinction | Salvation
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Beyond Terror Beyond Grace have carved out their own distinct brand of sonic terror on their first full length album, Salvation | Extinction.

Salvation | Extinction 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.
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Reviews

Blunt Magazine
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

PyroMusic.net
As this is being written our country stands on the verge of choosing between an old-school Conservative right wing Prime Minister and a new-school liberal right wing Prime Minister, so it seems kind of appropriate that a Napalm Death-inspired Aussie grind band makes an appearance at this time.

With no song over two and a half minutes long, the debut album from Beyond Terror Beyond Grace doesn't let its listeners up for breath for very long. Extinction|Salvation is a 25-minute relentless onslaught of death and grind.

After the short ambient piece that serves as an intro, BTBG blaze through the next six tracks with an unassailable grind intensity that offers little respite and little variation from a full-on volume overload. It's only with track 8, "Surveillance", that the band shifts down a few pegs, crawling through a two and a half minute instrumental of slow-chugging death metal.

This death metal influence then continues into the next track. "Defeated" begins with an ominously churning riff that suddenly erupts into flat-out grind once again at the 41-second mark. "Erosion" and "Divinity Collapse" continue in the same fashion before the definite punk inflection of the very obviously Napalm Death-like "Democracy" and its ridiculously appropriate lyric "Choice equates with the lesser of two evils" spewing forth from 40 seconds of pure sonic hatred.

So it goes for the duration, as 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. 7.9/10

The Stix Magazine
Blue Mountains very own Beyond Terror Beyond Grace debut cd Extinction | Salvation is definately one of the most devestating grindcore offerings of the year. These young mountain boys have been busy lately gigging around town and supporting high calibre acts in the world of metal such as The Black Dahlia Murder and Cephalic Carnage on their Australian tours.

BTBG is an uncompromising grindcore meets death-metal outfit, led by the "young and wholesome, Aussie boy next door" Bart, but with a growling rasping, demented voice which would turn a pitbull dog into a poodle puppy, backed by Alex on bass, Steve on drums and Ben Terror on guitar. Their lyrics are some of the most cerebral I have heard, a word not usually associated with grindcore songwriting.

Bart ponders with a nietzsche-like curiosity about his own existence and his place in the universe on track 13 "Unattainable", questions values and ethics and 'adherence to synthetic ideals' on "Empty", the influence of corrupt corporate media and the consequences for those who dare to oppose it on "Apathy and Acceptance". 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.

Antichrist Zine
Wow! I still remember their M-CD “Still Human...”! This band with such twisted name? is coming from Australia if I don’t mistaken, and represent really killing stuff! Yeah, fast and sick! The main goal is a grindcore, but with strong influences of crust/punk. As a whole music is fast and mid-tempos (with slowdowns and sick mid-tempos for sure!), devastating and catching in all it’s structure. Also sickest vocals are involved over here, and all these means are looked greatly over here! Here’s nothing extraordinary or original, but nevertheless music of these Australians is interesting and memorable. The main themes in the songs are humanity and existence, to be honest I don’t like kinds of political means in the music, but if we’ll be not seeing on songs themes, all is OK? As for another musical influences you are able to hear over here, so I realy find some touches of both death and black metal (just listen to the songs “Defeated” or “Machine” for example)! As you see, we have new beast in the grind/crust/punk scene, and if you are into such kind of extreme, don’t hesitate to get this CD now! 19 songs on about 26 minutes. Are you ready for selfdestroying! 4\5

Thrashocalypse
BTBG are a band that I have been a fan of for a long time, ever since I bought their debut CD "Still Human, Still Humane?" a couple of years ago, needless to say I was very keen for "Extinction|Salvation" when I learned that it would soon be released. Honestly, on the first few listens I didn't know whether I liked it or not, and this was due to the production, Beyond Terror were trying to achieve a live sounding album, which they did, but at the same time, as I said, it took me 4 or 5 listens to be able to enjoy the album for what it is. If you have ever seen BTBG live, you know that they put on an intense show and this disc is no exception, whilst it doesnt visually recreate the intensity of a BTBG show, you get that raw sound that they have on stage.

The band are very tight on this disc, and everything sits well in the mix. Stylistically, the songs are well written and show a lot more musicianship than the debut EP, which shows that BTBG are definitely a band that is constantly growing, and rapidly. With several international supports under their belts, 2 official releases and a strong following, things are definitely going to grow for BTBG in the future, and fast. I recommend this to any fan of extreme music.

Deathdoom Productions
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.

DDDD (4/5