voidhat
Wow. This is some hot shit. I enjoyed their previous record, but this is just a leap forward in everything. There's the chaotic but tasteful mash of metal styles played with here, and a lot of great solos and tempo changes wrapped up in a stellar production. Wow. This album will be many things to many different people, but boring will not be one of them. Go buy this.
It was kind of a toss-up between Reaper's Servant and Casket of Rust.
Favorite track: The Reaper’s Servant (Feat. Darius Tehrani).
Beau Heilman
I hope like you have done for other albums, you make this an instrumental one too.
Such an incredible album!!! Looking forward to devouring it once the cd arrives!
David Fischer
A change on the mic is almost always a critical moment, especially if a talented vocalist is stepping off. Enterprise Earth however are in no trouble, not only already having a successor among their ranks but also releasing maybe their strongest album yet. Death... starts with a compelling intro, followed by over 50 minutes of indiscriminate, yet controlled carnage willing (and able) to suffocate you with your own kneecaps, with a sound is even better than The Chosen's. An early 2024 highlight!
Favorite track: Curse of Flesh (Feat. Matthew K. Heafy).
Obstacle of Affliction
A cornucopia of heavy grooves, shredding solos, soaring melodies, and, of course, brutal breakdowns.
Favorite track: Blood and Teeth.
ENTERPRISE EARTH is among the most celebrated death metal bands of the modern era. The group “crawls from the shadows of Washington, throws Patient Ø at us, and death metal is reborn,” said Shockwave Magazine of the band’s 2015 debut. A critic for Metal Nexus declared 2017’s Embodiment “the heaviest album I have ever heard.” The band’s third full-length slab, Luciferous, joined Loudwire’s 50 Best Metal Albums of 2019. “It never hurts to make an album that makes the majority of your peers look silly,” wrote Blabbermouth. “Your move, deathcore hordes.”
Their move, indeed. ENTERPRISE EARTH reemerges in 2021 with The Chosen, a masterpiece of monstrous brutality and enveloping ambiance. It is the band’s heaviest yet most diverse effort, with shifting attitude, vibe, and desperate aggression stitched throughout its songs. Brooding, thick with atmosphere, groove-driven, old-school death metal with modern flourishes, the music of ENTERPRISE EARTH switches gears from earth-shattering breakdowns to sickeningly slow sludge to blast furnace pummeling with seemingly effortless ease. Composition after composition is ominous, ambitious, lurching, and inviting, including “Where Dreams Are Broken,” “The Failsafe Fallacy,” “This Hell, My Home,” “Sleep is for the Dead,” “Temptress,” and “He Exists.”
Since their 2014 formation in Spokane, Washington, the group steadily built an audience in the underground. Touring partners over the years are genre luminaries and peers alike, including Cannibal Corpse, Nile, Suffocation, Whitechapel, Thy Art Is Murder and Chelsea Grin. Death metal is one of the darkest subgenres of music ever created, steeped in macabre imagery of blood and gore and delivered with guttural bellows and piercing squeals. Still, it is not without its guiding lights or impassioned empowerment.
A sense of purpose drives the band’s music. ENTERPRISE EARTH conjures self-determination and iconoclastic independence from within the bowels of extremity. The band’s authentic death metal precision and technical might are unquestionable. Committed to musical excellence and personal perseverance, ENTERPRISE EARTH carves meaning from the darkness.
ENTERPRISE EARTH, a band committed to brutal audio onslaught and proficient excellence, carves out personal meaning from the darkness. They conjure self-determination and iconoclastic independence, from within the bowels of extremity.
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This album is insane. Insanely good. This is my first Archspire album. Never listened tech death metal before so I was surprised a lot. The creation, the art they have put in this album is just mind blowing. Thanks guys for this! Attila Racz
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def my aoty from 2023. Extreme, almost proggy metal with some of the most topical lyricism in this post 2020 world. Beautiful, modulated vocals help paint a very bleak world, with the sing song nature of the choruses in a lot of the tracks making them undenyingly fun sing-a-longs. But those guitars , bass, DRUMS...all mixed to BRUTAL perfection. An instant classic, and better than like 80% of all previous metal ever recorded, even CD's previous efforts. iheartf2p
Chicago deathcore outfit Into the Silo torch everything in sight on this searing new LP with riffs that will leave bruises. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 21, 2022
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This is so engaging and consuming and entertaining. Absolutely amazing work, every instrument is a joy to listen to, the composition leaves room for everyone in the band to shine through, whilst the instruments all complement each other spectacularly. A truly breathtaking album! NATHAN ASHTON
