Terrorizer Magazine Analysis

Introduction

Terrorizer is an extreme music magazine published by Dark Arts Ltd. in the United Kingdom. It is released every four weeks with thirteen issues a year. Terrorizer published its first issue in October 1993 with Sepultura on the cover and a price of £1.95. To date Terrorizer has produced nine genre specials and one 'issue' special, the Art Special, part one of the black metal special being the magazine's second best selling single issue on the UK newsstands and part one of the second progressive rock Special.

Target audience

This magazine targets Heavy metal music fans regardless of age however a seeming guess would be around 18 to 40+.The main focus can be considered to be done on teenagers because they are in most of the cases a huge consumer of this genre of music. An informal tone is used in texts example could include the line   “I am Close to losing my mind”

Publishing institutions

Terrorizer is published by Dark Arts Ltd. in the United Kingdom. It is released every four weeks with thirteen issues a year. The terrorizer published its first issue in October 1993.For the distribution retail shops and small and big book stores were used.

Layout trademark

The masthead (Title) font is the layout trademark of terrorizer. The font used is in a spooky style to give a feel of terror/fear. This font is common on all its issues thus is considered the trademark for this magazine

Audience Value

This magazine completely reflects the value of its audience as it claims it is reported to have provided the best updates on latest metal music. It fully engages its audience with eye-catching covers of top metal artists and bands. Added benefits are also given to the spectators such as a free cd with every edition and a poster.