★★★★★
If there's any band that can make you feel that you're back in the heyday of early Eighties tape-trading it would be Sweden's Enforcer. The band, unapologetically, plays old school heavy speed metal like it's 1982, and they do it with skill and enthusiasm. With their fourth album, From Beyond, they remind us once more that the old school is the new school because classic metal is timeless. Enforcer As with their previous albums Enforcer's strength are wrapped in a trio of elements...
- www.dangerdog.com
2015-03-16
★★★★★
If there's any band that can make you feel that you're back in the heyday of early Eighties tape-trading it would be Sweden's Enforcer. The band, unapologetically, plays old school heavy speed metal like it's 1982, and they do it with skill and enthusiasm. With their fourth album, From Beyond, they remind us once more that the old school is the new school because classic metal is timeless Enforcer As with their previous albums Enforcer's strength are wrapped in a trio of elements...
- www.dangerdog.com
2015-03-12
★★★★★
Interviewing traditional speed metal band Enforcer, Sweden Rock Magazines asked why the play 'old school' metal. They answered, astutely I might add, that heavy metal is not old school, it is timeless. Only to persevere even more, Enforcer returns with their third album Death By Fire, now signed with Nuclear Blast Records. Enforcer:: spooky. Once more Enforcer delivers classic heavy speed metal comparable to early purveyors and peers like Agent Steel, Exciter and Anvil...
- www.dangerdog.com
2013-02-14
★★★★★
"Fans of early-'80s metal will find it faithfully recreated on Enforcer's 'Into The Night.' Those looking for more modern or original sounds won't find them here." From the falsetto screams to the big guitar breaks loaded up with Eddie Van Halen-style finger-tapping fretwork, nearly everything about Enforcer's "Into The Night" screams 1982 even though it was produced in 2008...
- www.metalunderground.com
2012-05-14
★★★★★
"The album sounds like something that might have once lived in Lars Ulrich's New Wave of British Heavy Metal record collection. That's mostly a good thing. " With "Diamonds," Swedish rockers Enforcer have created an album chock full of 24-karat old school metal of the variety you'd hear as the 1970s ended and the '80s began. The band even recorded the disc in analog, eschewing what it calls "phony modern studio techniques." That's both a blessing and a curse...
- www.metalunderground.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
Riding on the strength of their revival of traditional heavy metal on Into the Night, Sweden's Enforcer delivers another metal manifesto with their sophomore release Diamonds. Old school metal is making a well-needed resurrection these days, but it's often hard to pick the 'diamonds' from the sludge. Enforcer is one band, like White Wizzard, that gets it right from beginning to end...
- www.dangerdog.com
2010-12-06
★★★★★
Call it what you want: old school, traditional, or true, you know classic heavy metal when you hear it, and hell yeah, you love it. And it's still alive and well thanks to bands like Sweden's Enforcer. 'Into The Night' (possibly a small nod to Def Leppard's first LP) is full platter of traditional metal that tips a broad brim of the hat to NWOBM, old school US metal and speed metal. If you hear Maiden, Saxon, Savage Grace or early Exciter, you're not to far off...
- www.dangerdog.com
2010-12-06