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Enemy of the Music Business

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This is arguably my favorite Napalm Death so far, although I only got four of their albums, so I'm really looking forward to get some more. This album really kicks some serious ass, and will please any fan of death metal, grindcore, and even thrash metal fans like myself. Every song on here just kicks your ass so hard, it just sends you in a wiplash. Barney Greenway gives out one of his best vocal performances on here, just listen to him on the opening track Taste The Poison, talk about insane. Jesse Pintado and Mitch Harris's twin guitar riffs just rips right through your body like a chainsaw. Bassist Shane Embury adds a different sound to his bass which is a very good thing. Danny Herrera's heart pounding double bass drum blasts just hit you like a ton of bricks, man he is just sick. Great album, a must have for all Napalm Death fans. ND 4ever.

And this time they are beyond pxssed! "Enemies Of The Music Business" sees the return to their glory days of "Utopia Banished" and "Fear, Emptiness, Despair" and it's great to hear a band as old as these guys are and still carry the originality and innovative treads that Napalm Death first set-off all the way back in 1987 with their classic "Scum" album. Nothing to expect here but inhuman blast beats, grinding Death Metal riffs, hardcore-influenced lyrics, and growling hellious vocals...just the way us Napalm Death fans like, and Napalm Death prefer as well. The opening blast beats of "Taste The Poison" to the lasting bludgeoning hardcore riffs of "Fracture In The Equation" let's everyone know that Barney, Jesse, Shane, Mitch, and Danny have put up with a lot of shxt for the past few years. And boy do they let that anger, fury, and agression out. Barney's vocals sounds like he's going to take an Uzi and maul-down an entire parking lot full of innocent by-staders. Jesse and Mitch's guitar are a chansaw ripping through your spinal cord. Shane Embury's incredible hooks and well-balanced bass offers a very new up-dated sound. Danny Herrera's drumming...what can I say? His drumming gets better and better every album Napalm Death puts out. Some parts are heavier then others, and in some parts you think to yourself "Is Danny Herrera capable of drumming that damn fast without getting lock-up???"...Speaking of which, Lock-Up is a brand new killer band that includes Jesse and Shane as well as Thomas Lindberg(The Crown, At The Gates) and vulcano drum-god Nick Barker(Dimmu Borgir)...I highly reccommed every and anybody to go out and purchase "Hate Breeds Suffering". Overall best songs:
- Taste The Poison
- Constitutional Hell
- Vermin
- Can't Play Won't Play
- Cure For The Common Complaint
- Nessecary Evil
- (and my personal favorite) C.S.(Conservative Shxthead)Part II

Oh, my. This album has been hard to find in North Carolina, so being a Napalm Death fan I finally had to order it. I didn't expect to hear what I heard. Brutal beyond belief, I had wondered if they would ever make music this heavy again. The last few albums they made have been good, but I didn't expect them to make an album of this magnitude. The vocals are simply inhuman. There is not one bad song on the entire album and it will kick your teeth in from start to finish. For all those people who think Slipknot and Korn are heavy bands, you have not heard this. This album will make your ears bleed. Turn the volume all the way open and you will truely know that this is the end of music as we know it. Simply brutal.

"Enemy of the Music Business" is some extremely well-done death-thrash metal. Barney Greenway's super-gravelly vocals blend with searing guitar work and blindingly fast drumming for some potent metal that will have listeners banging their heads in near-record time. Some songs even boast potent grooves, "Next on the List" and "Mechanics of Deceit" most prominent among them. The faster "A Necessary Evil" and "Volume of Neglect" are also excellent listens. The production is also definitely a plus, as it's appropriately rusty but still clear enough that the songs flow well.

I used to be into Napalm Death but sort of lost track of them over the years. After reading the other reviews for this CD, I thought I might as well buy it to see what these other reviewers were raving about.

This album is INTENSE! This CD has everything a death metal fan yearns for: super fast drums (blast beats and complicated, too), high-speed guitar work, and brutal vocals (mostly gutteral with some high-pitched screaming added in for nice variety).

The lyrics are strong here, too, conveying meaning (not the norm in death metal, the category that best fits this CD, I think).

If you like extreme/technical (death) metal, you will LOVE this. Listening to this album induces crazed euphoria every time! Just buy it and end all doubt!

This is perhaps the best Napalm Death record to date. It has the intensity of 'Utopia Banished', message content of the early days ('Scum'-era), with the musical quality of the last records. Twelve of fourteen songs have blast-beats (more fast doesn't exist), the production is impressive, I lose my words, this is pure happiness. This is a lesson to all other bands that went slowly record after record to something more and more mainstream. Grindcore at is best. Pure mayhem! A must!

this is a trip back to the old napalm death days.the production was rusty,the quitar playing was fast and loud, the singing was the same, and the drums were more insane then ever.i think this will be a classic napalm release because of the sound and production of the album.its like a crust/grind album with violent lyrics and thrashing guitars.this is a great album for fans of the classic napalm death albums.so all fans,GO BUY IT!

This is such a brutal cd- Napalm have been so consistent since "Diatribes" and this just tops it all. Excellent production, taking the previous releases up a notch with full blasting heaviness. These guys are without a doubt the very best in Death Metal and this cd will leave you battered and pleasantly bruised!

I got this CD today, and I have to say that everything I heard about it was true. This album is much faster than everything they have done in along time. Not really the speed of "Scum" or "From Enslavement to Obliteration", but noone would expect that anyway. Still: this album is rather fast. The songs also sound a bit simpler than on the previous albums. The cover is reminiscent of the older records too, in some way. They even used their old logo from the first records, which they haven't done in years. Maybe that was meant to be symbolic. All in all, a very good record.

Napalm Death's ninth full length studio album Enemy Of The Music Business was released back in 2000 and is still arguably the best and most vital sounding album of their career. After a series of more melodic, groove influenced and experimental albums in the mid-to-late nineties, the band decided to just release the harshest, angriest and most energetic material they could create.

The material is all fairly short, direct but arguably perfect. The energy on the record is almost unparalleled in their already excellent career. Tracks burst out of the speakers; full of double kick patterns, barking vocals and occasional blasting. They push things as hard and heavy as possible without becoming boring and fill in the blanks with interesting riffs, some of the best vocal patterns in their career and all around creative modern extreme-metal.

Although the album is incredibly solid throughout and never really dips in quality, the record does split almost in half, with the harshest tracks at the beginning of the record and the catchier more accessible songs on the second half. Highlights include the absolutely ferocious, near-title-track 'Can't Play Won't Play,' as well as 'Necessary Evil,' 'Mechanics Of Deceit,' and the snarling 'Thanks For Nothing.'

The album was so strong that the band still keep a lot of material from it on rotation in live shows (also making up a large portion of the Punishment In Capitals live release) and importantly, its direction informed the direction of all the band's albums to date which would follow it.

Overall; Enemy Of The Music Business is an absolutely monstrous album that no Napalm Death fan should even consider overlooking, it really is one of, if not the best in their entire career. Anyone with even the mildest interest in Napalm Death should pick up a copy without hesitation.