Album review: Enforced – A Leap Into The Dark

Enforced are not a band to fuck around. Less so than normal, even, on this smash-and-grab six-track EP which arrives like a splash of gasoline to spike their fire after the frantic 18 months since last year’s awesome third album War Remains.  Having already nailed their 100mph crossover formula – and still to show any kind of thrash faigue – it’s less about reinventing the wheel than painting it black, adding some bad-ass spikes and running it gleefully over anyone who dares get in their way.  Armageddon is the theme for opener Betting on The End, which throws together gallows humour (​‘Scrape up all that you have left / And pray you’ll hit it big / Blow up your retirement / Ignore all your kids’) and route-one riffs to exhilaratingly pessimistic effect. Deafe...

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