Maybe you caught our interview with Julio Rey in Garlic #3 where he told us all about this CD, well now we have it beginning with a beautiful gtr ballad. Then you hit track 2: grindcore in the truest sense of the word. The best way to describe this song or album for that matter would be to somehow mix Disrupt with Slayer & Earth Crisis and occasionally throw in a little Minor Threat. As with FE's last album the musical genres vary from grind to punk and everything in between, but is far better in its execution of each respective genre [especially the grind]. Each song seems to blend flawlessly into the next which is really amazing all things considered. The vocals vary as much as the music going from high pitched screams to growls to plain old screaming. Sometimes he gets this higher total nasal voice, it's as if he snarls through his sinuses, quite intriguing. Gtrs are crunchy in the death/grind way with a lot of chugga chugga, power chords and solos. Don't worry the solos don't overpower the rest of the music a la Integrity circa Systems Overload. Lotz of double bass & breakneck machine gun speed snare action. A great release for all lovers of hard tunes, except kinda short clocking in at 36 min.
Other coverage for this album
Critical Mass #2Reviewed by Tom EdmondsonThis album and this band have a real polemical style reminiscent of the Old Testament prophets. First is the name which is a stab at Frank Zappa who claimed that Christians were his enemies. Secondly, the subject matter of many of the songs on this disc take issue with many things that are at odds with Christianity. Most noticeable is the song "Stephen Hawking Walked Away". (Hawking is the…The Phantom Tollbooth 1996Reviewed by Josh SpencerDon't buy this unless you have to have every Christian death metal album. Very fast, sloppy death metal with some hardcore vocals and slowed down doom metal thrown in on occasion. Below-average production (but much better than previous Frank's Enemy albums). 1.5 tocksDead Zine 1996Reviewed by CeebIf you are a fan of extremely strange music with a lot of sound effects and noises then you will sincerely love FE. Based in Florida, this band's type of explosive death metal-grind, mixed with just flat out groove will satisfy most types of music. The production of this album is very good, with the cover and inside of the C.D. case looking very professional, and not cheap. The songs that stick…Dead Zine 1996Reviewed by D_ListerThe best Grindcore in a long time? The best Death Metal in a long time? The best hardcore in a long time? The best doom in a long time? What do you call this? I don't know, how about the best CD in a long time? THAT's IT. Oh, and do you like noise? Well it's done really well here too. Could there be any more sounds this CD has to offer? Well, did I mention groove/funk? No? Just listen to "Stephen…Similar sounding releases
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