Terminate Damnation

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{{Infobox album

| name = Terminate Damnation

| type = studio

| artist = Becoming the Archetype

| cover = Terminatedamnation.jpg

| alt =

| released = August 30, 2005

| recorded = 2005

| studio = Compound Recordings, Magnolia, Texas

| genre = Heavy metal, progressive death metal, thrash metal, metalcore

| length = 54:33

| label = Solid State

| producer = Zach Hodges

| prev_title = The Remnant

| prev_year = 2004

| next_title = The Physics of Fire

| next_year = 2007

}}

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Terminate Damnation is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Becoming the Archetype, released on August 30, 2005. The title of the album was taken from the song "Terminate Damnation" from the Mortification album, Scrolls of the Megilloth.{{cite web|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/as-the-story-grows/id962812433|title=Seth Hecox of Becoming the Archetype|publisher=As the Story Grows|first=Seth|last=Hecox|interviewer=Trav Turner and Stephen Sarro|date=May 10, 2015|access-date=February 7, 2016}}

The album artwork was painted by Dan Seagrave, who has been commissioned to draw many metal album covers.

Terminate Damnation was released on vinyl with a limited pressing of 500 by Broken Circles Records in 2011.