We Have Seen the Enemy – “And the Enemy is Us”
What kind of a name is that? Do people actually say, “Hey, let’s go see We Have Seen The Enemy?” The booklet says “We Have Seen The Enemy”, so I guess the answer is yes. Hey, I have an idea! Why not come up with a longer name that no one can pronounce or actually wants to say, like, “We Have Seen The Enemy Drinking Our Wine, Sleeping In Our Beds, Taking Our French Fries And We Think That One Day We Might Do Something About It, Man, Because That Ain’t Too Cool, Yo”? Stop being stupid, people! You’re not that clever. And people are not that patient. By the way, if you are still reading this, dear metalhead, you should know that this band loves At the Gates a whole lot. They do the gun motif, as “Slaughter of the Soul”, too. The singer sounds like he is doing his very best to sound like Tomas Lindberg. He’s not doing a bad job, either. Ah, but that’s the problem, isn’t it? Imitation or creation? Sounds too much like imitation. The first few minutes, you think, “Huh? That’s cute.” Then you think, “Huh. Why are they doing that?” Wait! I just got a phone call from Elvis Presley and he told me that this band is actually named “Enemy Is Us”. OK?! By the way, shouldn’t that be “Enemy Is We” because you are supposed to say: “This is I”, and not “This Is Me”? See?!