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Common Enemy - "Late Night Skate" CD

Straight from Reading, Pennsylvania comes to us a fucking in your face real, pure Hardcore CD entitled "Late Night Skate" from a wonderful sincere band called Common Enemy, Jesus Christ this is the kind of attitude and velocity Hardcore bands today should have. The band mixes elements of 80's Hardcore, some Street Punk, some Thrash crossover mayhem that can incite one hell of a circle pit or a riot. The cd is wonderful fast, aggresive, sincere and very in your face, now this is real Hardcore ideal to thrash and fuck yourself up drinking and go out to skate all night long. I've heard that their shows are great full of circle pits here and there, lots of stage diving and slam dancing and of course skate ramps at the parking lot ha ha ha. As far as for the musicians they are young talented bastards that keeps this music and scene alive at all cost, crunchy, heavy, fast guitars, loud bass lines, fast as hell aggresive drumming and vocals so loud and anoying that can leave you hysteric. This is highly recomended for fans of D.R.I., M.O.D., Agnostic Front, Suicidal Tendencies and Circle Jerks, don't let this pass you by, buy their cd and shirts and support this act.

Major Malfunction Zine #4
Common Enemy - "Late Night Skate" CD

First time I encountered Common Enemy is when I saw their ad on Slug & Lettuce. I became curious about them. I checked out their website and read they play skate and thrash core. Luckily Dave of Horror Business Records sent me a couple of flyers and one of it promotes Common Enemy's "Late Night Skate" European release (check out MM #2), from Horror Business Records of course. I contacted Justin Enemy & a copy of "Late Night Skate" landed at my doorstep! Common Enemy is really furious! They know how to have a good time. Every song in this CD will make you flip or do 360! The lyrics are fun too. It ranges from 8 bit video games, teenage rebellion, B-movies, weapons of mass destruction and of course skateboarding! If you like The Faction or JFA then you'll love Common Enemy! "Build Ramps, Not Bombs!" (Walid "led" Ma'arouf)

Li Punx Website
Common Enemy - Late Night Skate - 2004 - DRP Records

Ok, if you go to local gigs, you must have seen these guys at least 5 or more times...If you haven't, YOU SUCK! And if you don't have this album....YOU REALLY SUCK. Total skate punk Californian influence, 17 songs in about 20 minutes, reminds me of the Circle Jerks legendary album "Group Sex" in the time factor,and that it's one of my personal favorites, just like that album. The songs are fast, hard, and come on four wheels. The main songs I found that really stick out are "Note to self...Shut up!", the crowd pleaser "Build ramps NOT Bombs!", one of their original tunes from when the original line up was still together "Paralyzed", and DEFINETLY "Theme Song". Since they play more shows out here than most long island bands I suggest you pick the album up the next time they're out here, you won't regret it, and it will make seeing them so much more fun. Warning: Circle pit at you're own risk, low flying skateboards. (Jay Drunk)

Dick Snot Mag. (NY)
Common Enemy - Late Night Skate - 2004 - DRP Records

Returning with their latest full-length are the rowdiest bunch of fuckers from PA leading the forefront of today's skate punk movement. Late Night Skate, encompasses the same intensity and viciousness of early Common Enemy releases and includes 17 new tracks that should definitely please fans both new and old. Songs like "Build Ramps, Not Bombs," "Pit Trilogy," and "The Argument," are sure to be instant classics...I just want a fucking circle pit! (Manic)

www.hussieskunk.com (6/27/05)
Common Enemy - Late Night Skate - 2004 - DRP Records

Skate punk straight outta the woods of Penn! You know I used to skate. We listened to a lot of speed metal, Suicidal Tendencies, Anthrax, and a few punk bands, but never did we get anything like the skate punk of today. Between Hussieskunk friends Legbone and Common Enemy, you can get a real taste of the direction that this genre has gone. You can hear the progression on Legbone's music, but this review isn't of Legbone...its of Common Enemy! Common Enemy fits into it as well. They play punk that is very much fused with speed metal and hardcore. Common Enemy have found the happy median of skate punk and have exploited it for all its worth on "Late Night Skate". This is definitely a session disc. I can see this playing at the local park, on a beat down boombox covered in old skool stickers, with more than its share of duct tape holding it together. Common Enemy keeps their energy high throughout the disc and manage to work skating into just about every track. Its important to them as evidenced by this disc, and I think they could easily be the ringleaders for the new wave of skate. The disc has seventeen tracks of aggressive beatdown music, but strangely enough none of the tracks breaks the two minute mark! So not only do you get the amazing thrashing of a hardcore meets metal band, you get high dose of ass whoopin' in all of a minute and a half! This is a great disc for anyone, anyone interested in getting rowdy! Especially if your a skater, you'll find this disc a great inspiration to hit all new highs... And for us retired skaters, its a chance to feel the grip tape under our bare feet with a whole new soundtrack! (MG)

City Kittie Website (3/16/05)
Common Enemy - "Late Night Skate" CD

Ok here you are today with that girlfriend of yours, the metal chick. Back in the day, your girlfriend was that old school girl. Years go by and that old school girl disappeared and left you in the dust, but now she's back to rekindle those flames, and bursting that annoying love triangle with the old-school chick sending that metal chick out the window...So Common Enemy brings back that rekindling of yester year as they take you back to the better days of 20 second fast-blistering-blitzspeed, that not even a Peter North cumshot can beat! Aggressive songs, sung and played at 100mph...the vocalist is annoying....in a GREAT way...he sounds like while singing that he's getting under your skin taunting you as you lay with your cock broken after breaking it skateboarding. The music speedfreakingly acts like the theme song to those taunts..including you get a live performance on this enhanced cd! Standout songs include Theme Song, Circle Pit love, Punks Dead, your next, the Argument, and Paralyzed. Hmm, never thought of it, but pornstar nina hartley's nice big bubble ass can second for a skateboarding ramp, and if thats your bag, remember for common enemy to be the theme song to the insanity! (A.G.)

Pennsylvania kids rip through sixteen tracks of fast, energetic, skate-core. Musically, they're nothing special, but it seems like having fun is more important to these guys than trying to be the next BLACK FLAG. And with songs like "7 Ply," Slash the Coping," and "Build Ramps, Not Bombs," their enthusiasm could give Max Ward a run for his money. (VH)
(DRP Records, PO Box 6257, Wyomissing, PA 19610, www.drprecords.com)

THIS FUCKING RIPS!!! Good ol' fashion fast as hell hardcore/skate punk. Songs about circle pits, skating and building ramps not bombs...what more could you ask for. The music sort of reminds me of Tear It Up just without the vocals. This guy can fucking scream without it getting annoying. Great shit and I hope to hear more in the near future. Skate Til' Death!! [RM]

Thrashcore erfreut sich ja in letzter Zeit extremer Beliebtheit Und da es quasi Pflicht ist, um das Wort Klischee zu umgehen, mindestens einen Song über's Skaten zu machen, dachten sich die Jungs von COMMON ENEMY: "Wir machen jetzt ein ganze Album darüber". Gut, machen BONES BRIGADE auch und die können das auch etwas besser. Die Scheibe ist dennoch nicht schlecht. Die Mischung zwischen Punk (erinnert teilweise an THE CASUALTIES) und Geknüppel hält sich die Waage, nur der Gesang ist etwas anstrengend, denn der klingt wie eine Mischung aus dem alten RKL-Sänger und dem Sänger der japanischen Band FUCK ON THE BEACH. Nette Scheibe auf jeden Fall, und für die Comic-Skaterin auf dem Cover gibt es noch mal einen Punkt ... Die Mädchen, die auf der kommenden Tour einen Ollie zeigen können, kommen übrigens umsonst auf das Konzert. Also, Mädels, auffe Bretter und ordentlich Gas geben. (18:50)

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