Emmure: Eternal Enemies

Emmure: Eternal Enemies

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Emmure “Eternal Enemies” (2014) Review

There are a lot of hardcore and metalcore acts that are touring the country right now, and one of them hit the road with contemporaries on the “Mosh Lives Tour”. I went to see it go down, and realized that I’m too old for it. Plus, I didn’t have a camera, no smartphone, nothing, so my experience was definitely one of pure sight and sound. The headlining act was none other than controversial metalcore 5-piece Emmure and they tour the house apart with extreme force of sound. Victory Records has been counting down the days of this release and it finally hit the stores and the pre-orders shipped. The release of “Eternal Enemies” not only presents one of the heaviest chapters in the band’s history, it very well could be the best produced metalcore, deathcore buffet you’re going to listen to this year.

From the start, they play bully. Imagine being a kid and getting pushed over and beaten up by someone older and you get a bit of what this record starts out with. A middle finger, a shove, and then a complete beat down of your senses. It starts with blatant disregard for taste, and they have been the center of controversy for putting out hate speech, and so much more. Whether or not it’s clever marketing or it’s how the band really feels is a matter of debate, which is red hot on forums across the internet. Despite that, the guys in Emmure present a solid record that flows well through tracks of brutality, fast paced metal and heavy handed messages that are nothing short of in your face.

Taking cards from Scars of Tomorrow, Eighteen Visions, Hatebreed, and even icons like Zao, they bring serious noise and growls, screams, break downs, and so much more. Start stop, start stop, break downs, guitar solos, sung vocals, screamed vocals and everything you can pick out from every hardcore record of the past is presented here with brute force. The band has no qualms about what they are doing and it shows with the records tone and lyrical assault.

Emmure’s “Eternal Enemies” is a hard record. It’s hard in the sense that it plays every card that could possibly offend you, in a very “high school” way, but the guitar work and presentation is spot on. The music is just insane, with touches of excellent timing, and gang vocals that will sit well with any hard band in the world. They may be young, but they are not dumb when it comes to giving their fans and the metal community another winner.

Stand out tracks include “Nemesis”, “The Hang Up”, “A Gift A Curse”, “Like Lamotta”, “Free Publicity” and “Grave Markings”. I recommend it, it’s quite possibly the heaviest record to come out so far, quote me on it.

Pros: Heavy blend of death metal, hardcore, and metalcore

Cons: Lyrics are childish at times, and full of negative themes

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