On April 28th, Enforced will release their third full-length, “War Remains” (32 minutes of aggressive, no-frills thrash!), via Century Media Records. For a second preview of this record, the official video for the new single “Hanged by My Hand” can be watched now below.
Knox Colby (vocals) comments: “The song is about living in a world governed by the ignorant, the incompetent and the ineffective; shrugging off or poorly trying to mask how inept they truly are (The Norfolk-Southern train derailment in Ohio is a perfect example). The song seethes with no way forward, as the world around you burns in acid fire; you’d rather die with your dignity than having some bastard suit step over you like a piece of garbage, only remembering you as ‘collateral damage’ and not the human being you once were. They don’t care about you. Look out for yourself. Behind a poison smile, decline in denial.”
Will Wagstaff (guitars) adds: “This record (‘War Remains‘) is furious. If you aren’t in the mood to circle pit, head bang, disrupt the neighbors, etc. don’t put this thing on. From the second the needle touches the record, you are in for about 32 minutes of a non-stop, no frills, indiscriminate ass kicking. Toss out the samples, ambiance, and nonsense. All we need are JCM800s and some V30s to deliver inexorable riffage.”
Pre-order “War Remains” now at THIS LOCATION – where the album is available in the following versions:
- Standard CD jewel-case
- Black vinyl
- Blue vinyl available from USA retail (500 copies) & CM Distro Wholesale EU and CMdistro.de (300 copies)
- White vinyl available from EMP (150 copies) & Nuclear Blast (150 copies)
- Red vinyl available from Enforced (limited to 300 copies)
- Digital album
“We didn’t overthink anything,” says Enforced front-man Knox Colby, describing the ethic that went into the making of the Richmond, Virginia-based quintet’s third album, “War Remains”. “It’s all very straight forward, no bells and whistles production-wise. It’s almost ten minutes shorter than our last record and packs ten times more of a punch.”
Blazing out of the pandemic, Enforced carved a trail throughout North America and Europe, sharing stages with the likes of Obituary, Municipal Waste and Exhumed as well as festivals like Maryland Deathfest and France’s Hellfest. With that bloodied road behind them, Enforced set metallic standard with their power-of-the-riff-wreck-your-
“War Remains” Album Artwork
Teaming with Richmond-based producer, Ricky Olson, with mixing help from Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Kreator), the band delivered on every iota of extreme aggression they’ve flexed since their inception in 2016. “War Remains” is the sound of Enforced pushing themselves to the next level: a serrated-edge classic. “It has the intensity of ‘At the Walls’ (2019) but is more mature than ‘Kill Grid‘ (2021),” Colby explains. “It has that tenacity of us live. It spills through the record. If you’re a fan of really aggressive music, you’re gonna love it. It’s seething!”
“War Remains” track-listing:
- Aggressive Menace
- The Quickening
- Hanged by My Hand
- Avarice
- War Remains
- Mercy Killing Fields
- Nation of Fear
- Ultra-Violence
- Starve
- Empire
Enforced line-up:
- Knox Colby / Vocals
- Will Wagstaff / Guitars
- Zach Monahan / Guitars
- Ethan Gensurowsky / Bass
- Alex Bishop / Drums
