Enforcer (band)

Enforcer
Enforcer performing live during Hole in the Sky festival in Bergen, Norway, August 2010
Background information
Origin	Arvika, Sweden
Genres	Heavy metal, speed metal
Years active	2004–present
Labels	Heavy Artillery, Earache, Nuclear Blast
Website
Members	Olof Wikstrand Joseph Tholl Tobias Lindqvist Jonas Wikstrand
Past members	Jakob Ljungberg Adams Zaars

Enforcer is a heavy metal band formed in 2004 in Arvika, Sweden.

Enforcer plays and performs in a style very similar to older speed metal bands like Agent Steel, Exciter and Anvil. When the Sweden Rock Magazine asked them about playing "old school", they answered that heavy metal is not old school, it is timeless.

They released their first album, Into the Night, through the Heavy Artillery label in November 2008^[1]

Enforcer released its second full length album "Diamonds" under Earache Records, on May the 24th, 2010 in Europe while Heavy Artillery Records released the album in North America on May 25, 2010.^[2]

On February the 1st, 2013 they released "Death By Fire" in Stockholm, Sweden. They headlined a Belgian release show along with Evil Invaders on February the 2nd, a Belgian speed metal band that released their self-titled EP.

Musical Style

Enforcer is considered a part of the New Wave Of Traditional Heavy Metal (NWOTHM) an ongoing movement that in recent years has seen the return of traditional sounding metal bands (similar to the Swedish Sleaze metal revival) the name is taken from the New wave of british heavy metal in which the movement strongly identifies with. Other bands considered part of the movement include Steelwing, White Wizzard, Cauldron, Holy Grail, Skull Fist and more recently Sons of Lioth.

Discography

• Evil Attacker (2005) (demo)
• Evil Attacker c/w Mistress from Hell (2007) (single)
• Into the Night (November 18, 2008) (album)
  1. Black Angel (3:35)
  2. Mistress from Hell (3:16)
  3. Into the Night (3:15)
  4. Speed Queen (3:23)
  5. On the Loose (4:24)
  6. City Lights (Instrumental) (5:54)
  7. Scream of the Savage (3:40)
  8. Curse the Light (4:09)
  9. Evil Attacker (3:37)
• Nightmare Over the UK (2010) (split album with Cauldron)
• Diamonds (2010)
• Night Walker/Take Me to Hell (2011)
• High Roller/Back on the Road (2011)
• Death by Fire (2013)
• From Beyond (2015)

Members

• Olof Wikstrand - vocals (2004–present), guitar (2004-2006, 2011–present), bass (2004-2007), drums (2004-2006)
• Jonas Wikstrand - drums (2006–present), bass (2007)
• Joseph Tholl - guitar (2008–present), bass (2007-2008)
• Tobias Lindqvist - bass (2008–present)

Past members:

• Adam Zaars - guitar (2006-2011)
• Jakob Ljungberg - drums (2007)

Notes

1. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=103553
2. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=137823