Labels: Selfmadegod
Review by: Alex Deller
This latest posthumous outpouring from Virginia’s Enemy Soil is perhaps less essential as a go-out-and-grab music DVD and more interesting as documenting a point in time when hardcore kids weren’t afraid to wear baggy t-shirts and these DIY grinders were sharing stages, splits and labels with the likes of Phobia, Corrupted and Discordance Axis. The best bits are culled from various small, cramped and sweat-dripping spaces from 1996-1998, highlighting a hilarious revolving line-up that orbits single mainstay Richard Johnson and features folks who’d sooner or later turn up within the ranks of Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Pig Destroyer and City Of Caterpillar. Elsewhere there’s footage from the band’s 2001 reunion (one of the more raging sets, but, annoyingly with perhaps the poorest sound quality), some audio-only studio recordings, liner notes from members and the usual photo gallery hodgepodge. It’s pretty sound all round and definitely one for the droves of devotees who seem to have crept from the woodwork since the band called it quits. One thing, though: where’s the fucking drummachine?!