Vomit Forth Intestinal Excrement

There is definitely a point at which the heaviness and brutality of a band, as a point unto itself, far from being a good thing, and collapses inwards taking any musical credibility with it.

Enmity is one of those bands. The only (and I do strongly mean THE ONLY) reasons anyone would listen to this, regardless of tastes in death metal, is;

a) For a laugh.
b) As a demonstration of overdone extremity to others.
c) If you're retarded.

Although there is a lot of intrinsic value in the nature of brutally heavy music; its existence itself symptomatic of many things in our own nature and society, Enmity oversteps the boundaries of coherence entirely and becomes a self-satirical masquerade of all that can go wrong with this genre of music. While chaos in essence, like brutality, is another useful tool in metal's favour, there are bands that capture both the aural and structural elements of it while remaining coherent enough to present the package as a whole; bands like Nefas, Psychofagist, early Kataklysm, Sikfuk, Yattering, even Meshuggah succeed at this, while Enmity fails miserably.

Every Enmity track, without exception, is a pitifully underproduced morass of constant gutter vocals, the same two or three anonymous chunky guitar riffs, and the same drum track; same speed, same sound, same fills. This is brutal death metal without any noticeable technicality. Brutal death metal with no groove or structure. This is grind with no catchy riffs. Grind with no sense of speed; the guitars and drums are never actually aligned, and while other bands (eg Nefas) pull off this particular aspect, somehow, with coherence, Enmity just blasts and stutters along not even caring to try and unite the two; is it just a complete lack of instrumentation skill? I can't really tell; if the production had a colour, it'd be cloudy dark brown. This is pointless. While pointlessness wouldn't be expended entirely over the course of one two minute track, Enmity make a point of filling this EP and at least subsequent albums with very nearly the exact same two minutes for every track. While i'm loathe to say 'THE exact same track' because that is evidently an exaggeration and an insult to anyone's open-mindedness, this is pretty much as close as you can get to that statement while avoiding noise and extreme drone doom genres. Enmity don't even have a concept to try and be convincing with.

Nevertheless, give them a spin sometime so you don't have to take my word for it. This is about as brutal as you can get in deathgrind, but it counts for shit; anyone that listens to Enmity with any pretentions to seriousness is only in it for how br00tal music is, and so isn't worth paying any attention to. Avoid.