Terrorizer is an American
grindcore and
death metal band formed in 1987 in
Los Angeles,
California. After disbanding, its members gained recognition by playing in influential
extreme metal bands, such as
Morbid Angel (
David Vincent,
Pete Sandoval),
Napalm Death (
Jesse Pintado) and
Nausea (Oscar Garcia, Alfred "Garvey" Estrada). To date, Terrorizer has released three studio albums, and broken up twice (in 1989 and 2006). The band reunited again in 2009, this time without Pintado, who had died three years earlier.