The Enemy Within (album)

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The Enemy Within
Sphere Lazza - The Enemy Within.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 12, 1995 (1995-09-12) [1] [2]
StudioMirror Image
(Gainesville, Florida)
Genre
Length52:46
Label Cleopatra
Producer
  • Tony Spaz
  • David Trousdale
Sphere Lazza chronology
Incinerate
(1995)
The Enemy Within
(1995)
Ultimate Abyss
(2005)

The Enemy Within is the debut studio album by Sphere Lazza, released on September 12, 1995 by Cleopatra Records. [3] [4] The intended to follow their debut with a second album, tentatively titled Paradigm Shift, but the band's insterests were diverted elsewhere and the project never came to fruition. [5] [6]

Contents

Music

The track "Morphius" had previously been released on the 1994 various artists compilation The Art of Brutality by Arts Industria. [7]

Reception

Aiding & Abetting praised the gothic composition of The Enemy Within and said "Sphere Lazza write catchy songs with just the right amount of bouncy bass to keep things moving along." [8] Industrialnation commended the band's new melodic musical direction and claimed the album "finally sees the realization of the sound Sphere Lazza had obviously been striving for in the past: a perfect balance between electronic aggression, and tuneful hooks. [9]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tony Spaz and David Trousdale

No.TitleLength
1."Iconoclast"4:02
2."Inside Your Universe"5:07
3."Saturated * Guitar parts written by Alexander LaFrantz"5:43
4."Friend or Foe"4:08
5."Inner Sanctum"3:50
6."Petrified"4:24
7."Arizona Nuclear Test 1965"4:32
8."Morpheus"4:16
9."The Camera Eye"4:41
10."Run the Gauntlet"4:27
11."Blueface * Guitar intro provided by Alexander LaFrantz"4:25
12."Where Do We Go From Here?"3:11

Personnel

Adapted from the liner notes of The Enemy Within. [10]

Sphere Lazza

Additional performers

Production and design

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States1995 Cleopatra CDCLEO 9569

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