I go through phases where I just want to listen to really gentle, soothing music. I spent most of the second half of 2015 listening to ethereal singer-songwriter Joan Shelley and a large portion of 2019 immersed in “Emily Alone,” the intensely introspective third album from the indie-pop band Florist. For a couple of years now, I’ve been falling asleep to the tenderly bewitching songs of Canadian folk singer Myriam Gendron.

You might gather this from their name, but Terror is not a gentle, soothing band. In fact, Terror is the exact opposite of gentle and soothing, or ethereal and tender, for that matter. I go through phases where I want to listen to bands like Terror, too, though they usually don’t last very long. Even just listening to this band is exhausting, and you can’t do it for very long — unless you’re a lifer.

Speaking of which, Terror vocalist Scott Vogel and drummer Nick Jett are, presumably, lifers. They formed Terror in Los Angeles way back in 2002, and over the past two decades, they’ve become not only one of America’s greatest and most influential hardcore punk bands, they’re what Stereogum once called “an institution within their genre.”

That genre, again, is pedal-to-the-metal, fist-to-the-face hardcore, and these dudes do it with force and a fervor that fuels world-class mosh pits and puts younger bands to shame. They’ll play with a couple of those Saturday at the Domino Room, as well as an older band: Legendary Detroit proto-punks Negative Approach, now in their fifth decade of burning it all to the ground.

Terror, with Negative Approach, Haywire and Gaspack: 8 p.m. Saturday, doors open 7 p.m., $25 in advance, $35 day of show, Domino Room, 51 NW Greenwood Ave., Bend; midtownballroom.com.