Enemies of Reality

Enemies of Reality Artist: Nevermore
Label: Century Media
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 727701811024
EAN: 0727701811024
ASIN: B0000A4G6D


Release Date: 2003-07-29

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Listmania:

  1. Other thrash/speed metal revivalists
  2. Retrospective: my favorite albums of 2003
  3. My Music Pt. 8
  4. My favorite songs (a work in progress)
  5. Best of Cerebral Metal
  6. The Ultimate Judas Priest Tribute Album
  7. Best of 2003 (no order)
  8. My Favorite Bands/Albums...so far
  9. Albums that need a remaster
  10. Music to bring out the evil in you pt 2

Tracks:

  1. Enemies Of Reality
  2. Ambivalent
  3. Never Purify
  4. Tomorrow Turned Into Yesterday
  5. I, Voyager
  6. Create The Infinite
  7. Who Decides
  8. Noumenon
  9. Seed Awakening

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars This album rocks!.......2006-06-05

This is Nevermore's sixth full-length album another peak in the band's rapid ascend in the metal scene. The band is former SANCTUARY members Warrel Dane (vocals), Jeff Looms (guitar) and Jim Sheppard (bass). Throw in drummer Van Williams and you've got Nevermore. At first I didn't think to much about this album but the more I lessened to it the more I liked it. I started to hear all the master qualities that I missed when giving the album a quick once over. If your a Nevermore fan reading this then you might understand where I'm coming from with that last comment. The thing that caught my attention was Jef Looms's solo on I; Voyager and Enemies of Reality is pretty heavy. I think it does metal justice in my opinion. To me its the small things that make an album or a song good. This album may not be there best but it rocks pretty d### good to me.

2 out of 5 stars It had to happen sooner or later..........2005-12-29

If I weren't biased, I would have only given one star.

Every good band does it... sell out. You can hear some of each song in every song on this album. Nevermore's last masterpiece was DEAD HEART, after that...

It's not that the songs are BAD. They're just linear. On DEAD HEART, NM switched gears with each song. This was especially so on their EP IN MEMORY. Each song was a masterpiece you could hang on the wall and admire as an individual work of art.

ENEMIES is a collection that you get the sense of the genius behind it only collectively. None of the songs really stand out on their own merit.

But hey. Awesome band. These aren't guitar-slinging nuts, these are musicians to be reckoned with. Their guitar work is unrivaled and the lyrics aren't just to meat up the sound.

They just didn't dispense with their talent as well as they usually do, that's all.
But that doesn't discredit their value as a legendary band.

2 out of 5 stars What the heck happened to the production?.......2005-11-04

The only reason I'm giving this album a 2 instead of a 1 is because I think under all that muddy noise is some real good music. If I set my EQ just right I can hear something that sounds good. It might just be in my imagination but I can't fault the band completely for a bad production house. But, like the title says, this CD has HORRIBLE, DEPLORABLE, TERRIBLE, SAD, MISERABLE production quality. There are some CD's you buy that sound good on only certain types of stereo equipment. This cd sounds TERRIBLE on all configurations. The only album that I can think of that has just as bad if not worse production quality is "St.Anger" by Metallica, but at least Nevermore's music is still good, so that's the upside. Please Nevermore, if you are reading any of these reviews, I'm almost positive that your songs are awesome. Please produce another CD. We won't think any less of you!!! I just want to hear these awesome tunes. :(

4 out of 5 stars look past the production!.......2005-09-12

I have yet to hear the remixed version, but this is a great cd, except for the song right before the last song, it's not very good. If not for that song, I'd give it a five.
I loved Sanctuary and liked the first Nevermore cd, but never got into them since the first cd.
This cd made me realise that they do indeed rock!
The songs are amazing and hopefully the remix sounds better, but if that didn't exist, I would be more than happy with this version.

4 out of 5 stars Progressive shredfest somehow spoiled by muddy production........2005-08-23

This release is the second album I get from Nevermore. Compared to "This Godless Endeavour" (the other album I got) I think it's a bit more technical, but sadly the production does harm the final result -- yes, I own the original version, not the remastered one. While I love the dark, menacing sound of the rhythm guitar, the muddiness of the mix makes the listening experience not very enjoyable. It's a shame that Kelly Gray, who fairly played guitar for Queensryche, isn't equally good in playing the knobs and gauges for Nevermore. The abuse of voice overdubs (or harmonizers?), the unclear drumming and the overall felling that every instrument bleeds into the other; all that it's far from what I would call a good job. I hope the remastered version fixed all those issues -- I guess I'll purchase it, eventually.

Apart from the production problems, the songs here are very interesting. The first thing that I loved when I played the album was how Jeff Loomis doesn't shy when soloing. This guy is simply amazing, and here I guess he wanted to show his chops offs. So, be prepared to get a generous dose of serious shredding lead guitar.

Back to the songs, well, they don't have many hooks, but they do hit your head really hard. I like the dark melodies showing some modernized Iron Butterfly reminiscences. The lyrics and the arrangements are top-notch. These guys are in the league of Dream Theater and Fates Warning, no doubt about that. My personal highlights are "Never Purify" (that pounding sound, that middle section, and that fast solo!), "Noumenon" (a weird, but great song) and "Seed Awakening" (sometimes thrashy, sometimes menacing, with amazing lyrics and a very progressive feeling). I also like "I, Voyager" (for headbangers' guilty pleasures, with a "bonus" melodic chorus and a flashy guitar solo), "Ambivalent" (GREAT solo too) and "Enemies of Reality" (which contains another amazing solo from Loomis). As you see, I can remember almost every song here, so the pleasure is guaranteed for metal lovers.

To end the review, my main complains are, one, the aforementioned production problems; two, its length (it's way too short!) and three, Warrel Dane certainly is a fair-enough vocalist, but I would like him to showcase a wider range. Anyways, in spite of those (perhaps not so minor) flaws, the musicianship of these guys is so great, the compositions here are so good and the performance of the band is so tight that I don't dare to give to this album less than four stars. So, if you like a heavier variant of progressive rock, this is an album made for your tastes, besides any defect it might have. Go for it NOW!

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