It’s taken almost two decades for Sydney’s Enter 6 to release this second studio album and it’s one that has me firmly sat on the fence here. The production is awful for a start, the collection is pretty short two, it’s also raw as hell like the vocals but there’s something about this noise that does make you wonder “what if?” And that comes with the compositions – riff driven and often only that, as there’s no sense of constraint or rules at play here. There’s Thrash elements, sure, no little groove either, but at times you listen and wonder whether this is completely improvised around the driving bass that sears through the heart of a lot here.
If you like it rough then this is pretty raw, pretty dirty stuff and there’s little comfort in the way of refrains let alone choruses. The production too seems willfully lacking(?)
As far as songs go -listen to the lot it won’t take long and after a few spins (if you can live with the production) you’ll be thinking surely this Thrash-Prog-Punk-Noise is just a bunch of guys letting off steam rather than a focuses set of songs? Completely off the wall, it may well be, but I kinda liked it!
Tough after a few more listens I’m still none the wiser what a Black Dolphin has to do with this, no matter how tenuously…