Enemy Inside – “One More Time” – by Alek

Enemy Inside – “One More Time” – by Alek

Enemy Inside – One More Time

Label: Miner Recordings

Year: 16.10.2015

Format: CD (Jewelcase)

Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Genre: Rock

Still: Speed/Thrash

Old school thrash metal comes in many forms and Enemy Inside are one of the arguments. The album “One More Time” was self recorded, mixed and mastered by the band, to be precise, by Zlatko Slatinac, their guitar player and a guitarist of a historical metal act from Belgrade, Bombarder. Enemy Inside also entered in the Miner’s net. So let’s go to the point. This album is a comeback of a musician that was “somewhere in time” for about 28 yeras (after his guitaring in Bombarder) and that can be felt in the band’s lyrics and in the riffs also, who explode in old schoolering.

Anyway and anyhow I separate this album in parts and I guess those indicators of the “parts” come as a certain point(s) that the band makes. The first three songs come in one sound with great riffs that in those 10-12 minutes travelled in my head and came to some old school Pro Pain sound. A sound that reminds me of the older Pro Pain. To be clear, I’m not talking about stealing or copying riffs but the general vibe of the songs. And that’s pretty cool. Suddenly, there is the song “Thrashing Way” that comes packed in a totally different sound and I guess it was made that way to underline the heavy side of the song, the vocal is different, the guitars are thinner and sharper. Also, I cannot hold myself not to mention that this song pulled me back to 1992’s “Church of the Trully Warped” album from G.B.H. A punk band that metalized themselves with that album...

“Machine of Hate” returns the previous sound and takes the third part of the album (for my ears). Even the band is thrash metal oriented, this song has a great old school death metal riffs (such you can hear in Six Feet Under’s “Warpath” for example). It is one of my favourite songs! And then, again we enter in the fourth part of the album, “Brothers in Arms” and “Enemy Inside” who are also sounding different but in some way are complementary. 

The last two songs (the fifth part) “Horde” i “Metalni Bog” are not in english and have a heavy metal vibe.

Having in mind Zlatko’s comeback on the scene after so many years some of us can understand why there are different (in sound and in genre and composing) songs (I as call them parts). I guess those are songs from different period of time in Zlatko’s life. Some may say it’s not professional, but who knows, and who says that it shoud be “that way”. I take this album as a compilation of life and time events, nothing more, nothing less.

I reckon the overall sound could’ve been way way better. A little bit more mixing here and there to get a better balance. If we take those things as positives than they surely should represent a positive critic for Enemy Inside to make a compact sounding album next time. Overall this is a good metal release!

7.5/10