Track Listing

1. Enemies of Reality
2. Ambivalent
3. Never Purify
4. Tomorrow Turned into Yesterday
5. I, Voyager
6. Create the Infinite
7. Who Decides
8. Noumenon
9. Seed Awakening

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27277 in Music
• Released on: 2003-07-29
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Album Description
Seattle's Nevermore return after almost three years with this 2003 album. Century Media.

Customer Reviews

Amazing album, lousy sound quality
Argggh!
There's nothing more frustrating than trying to enjoy high quality music through a fog of bad production. On this release the mighty Nevermore steer to the heavier side with mixed results. The songs are heavy and brutal, almost a death metal vibe going on but not quite. It reminds me of what Testament did with The Gathering. Ultra-brutal metal made better by having real vocals where the cookie monster usually does his burping. The opening track is fantastic. I do miss some of the more melodic side of things I admit, The Heart Collector being one of my favourites, but it's still a great CD and a neat change of pace from the last 2 albums. The real problem is the production, which is in a word, awful. Not "St. Anger" awful, but not a whole lot better. It's so hard to believe an international major release could get out the door sounding this amateurly recorded and mixed. It's not only muddy as previous reviewers have stated, but there is absoultely NO bottom end on the kick drums....none. I have a 15 sub-woofer in my car, but you'd never know it was there. When I first popped this disc in and cranked it up, I literally thought my sub had stopped working. All of the kicks, and I do mean ALL come tapping out of my door speakers. It also has that same weird, flat boxy sound that Halford's otherwise excellent "Crucible" suffered with, thin and flat almost like a highly compressed vinyl record. Isn't anyone awake at these record labels anymore? Anyway, a great piece of butt kicking from Nevermore, that you will unfortunately only partly hear. Still worthy of 4 stars for the great music.

GREAT Disc, BAD sound!!!
OK, this is possibly Nevermore's greatest disc to date. It is short, around 40 minutes with no filler. Someone set Jeff Loomis loose in the guitar room and he went completley nuts. Furious riffs and the sterling vocals of Warrel Dane make this one of the best CD's of the year.

The problem is the mix, this is supposed to be the last album they do with Century Media so maybe this has something to do with it ... how else do you explain a CD that sounds like it was recorded live through a funnel? then filtered through a water pipe so that all highs and lows are removed leaving a muddled sound that consists of pure mid-range rubish. It crackles on high end speakers and makes me wish for some nice finger nails on a chalk board to screech, thus distracting me from the horror I am hearing

Kelly Grey produced the disc, if he is responsible for the sound then someone needs to tear off his arm and beat him about the head and shoulders with it.

Another Metal Masterpiece
Almost three years after their landmark album, Dead Heart In A Dead World, Nevermore deliver another metal masterpiece with Enemies of Reality. This is like Politics of Ecstasy in the sense that there is not one bad song on here. It mixes the technicality of Politics with the sheer agression of Dead Heart. If you're a guitarist, you will enjoy this cd; Jeff Loomis goes completely apecrap with his soloing. We all knew he was an amazing guitarist, but this just blows his other works out of the water. Warrel Dane, once again, shows that he is one of the most talented vocalists in metal today. His lyrics are as angry and bitter as ever. The rhythm section of Jim Shepperd on bass and Van Williams on drums pummels like a freight train. The song "enemies of reality" kicks the album off in high gear and does not stop. "Ambivalent" has probably my favorite solo. "I, Voyager" and "Create the Infinite" are probably my favorite songs. "Tomorrow Turned Into Yesterday" can be considered the ballad of the album. "Noumenon" is a strange song that segues into the cataclysmic "Seed Awakening" with the powerful message, "There is no stronger drug than reality". Nevermore have, once again, proven they are metal gods.