"Working with Jack at Enormous Door is nothing short of seamless. From the quality of his mastering work to his responsiveness to his clientele, Jack has turned masters and revisions around quickly and has been an enormous asset in hitting deadlines as well as super-serving the label and, most importantly, the artist."
- Mike Gitter (VP of A&R - Century Media Records)
DARKTHRONE
Old Star LP
via Last Rites:
"One of the first things you’ll notice upon hitting play on Old Star is the production. And if you have any sort of history with the band, you know this particular element plays as crucial a role to each album’s uniqueness as the instruments and songs themselves. What would Panzerfaust be without that putrid guitar tone and the snuggly manner in which Nocturno SCREAMS IN YOUR FUCKING EAR from two inches away? With 2016’s Arctic Thunder, the production felt icy, raw and very “on the surface,” which suited the band’s return to a leaner, angrier and blacker sound. With Old Star, the overall sound feels more like a lure into some grim cave—voluminous and with deeper tones, more bounce to the ounce, and as rotting and webbed as Morbid Tales. Per Fenriz, it’s their “most 80s album yet,” and the production fattens that particular pig by allowing Old Star to sound like something Black Dragon Records circa 1986 might’ve dropped. The bass tone alone here could very well be worth the price of admission." - Captain
FINAL CONFLICT
Ashes To Ashes LP
via Pitchfork:
"Jack Control's robust remaster creates some much-needed space, allowing Harp's toothed guitars to mingle alongside Warren Renfrow's nimble bass riffs, rather than overwhelm them. Dave Phillip's drumming sounds more hot-blooded this time around, too, firing off snare hits into the abyss at the start of "Apocalypse Now!" and striking a throttling gallop on "Crucifixion". Control places Ron Martinez's vocal track lowest in the mix, so that at any given point, he's yowling from between his bandmates' slabs of sound like a trapped and wounded beast. These contrasts distinguish Ashes to Ashes as a work determined to distance itself from its more unilateral-sounding peers, providing enough smatterings of depth and texture to please even the most punk-a-phobic eardrums." - Zoe Camp
MORK
Syv LP
via Boolin Toons:
"Syv is one of the most clear, perfect-sounding albums I have ever heard. The mixing is exemplary; everything sits exactly where it should, and processing like delays and reverbs are utilised with beautiful execution. Everything is also so well-recorded, which certainly goes a long way towards how fantastic the mixes sound. Perhaps the best of all are the distorted guitar tones, which see the very delicate job of making high-gain distortion sound polished handled without even the smallest misstep, never sounding muddy nor thin or grating with too much top-end. Additionally, the type of distortion is never fuzzy or overdone to excess.
Keeping in line with Mork’s latter-mentioned adoration for the ways of Darkthrone, Jack Control of the beloved Enormous Door studio handles the mastering with such finesse that it is easy to see why this is Mork’s fifth album with the mastering engineer. Audiophiles will certainly appreciate Control’s contribution to the already incredible sound of Syv.." - Ben Brown
AURA NOIR
Aura Noire LP
via Last Rites:
"Something particularly beneficial with regard to Aura Noire that’s likely to be appreciated right off the bat is the production. Beyond any doubt, this is the most ideal mixing and mastering job the band has experienced to date, and, as luck would have it, the promotional materials give zero indication of the party(cough cough, it was Enormous Door) responsible for accomplishing said advantage. Nevertheless, the production is glorious—an equal amount of spotlight placed on drums, bass (oh, glory to the Highest, you can hear the BASS on this record!) and the riffiest guitaring this side of Mt. Miland Petrozza, plus a clear, incredibly potent sense of live rawness that makes it sound as if dropping a needle to the record might very well deliver the band directly into your living room to rip through these songs with a demon’s intent... Embrace the gnarly, loose and madly raw side of life, my repulsive friends, and let Aura Noir provide the soundtrack for your journey into the cold dirt." - Captain
FROZEN SOUL
Crypt Of Ice LP
via Metal Injection:
"'Like a cold blast from an Arctic ice cave, each and every song echoes like northern thunder over frost-covered tundra and snow-capped mountains of might!'
If you've been paying attention over the last few months, you've certainly come across Frozen Soul in some capacity. The band have been riding a wave of well-deserved hype and accolades since dropping their debut Century Media-released album back on January 8th.
So, what's all the hype about? Well, to these ears, it really boils down to one thing: keeping it real. It's really that simple. Frozen Soul deliver an incredibly authentic, honest homage to the old-school sound of bands like Obituary, Mortician, and Bolt Thrower. That said, there is one secret ingredient that the others don't have… COLD!
Yep. One listen to Crypt Of Ice reveals a cold-as-ice yet somehow still warm-as-hell production that is truly unmatched in the realm of death metal. It sounds soooooooooo bloody good. It's hard to explain. For lack of a better description, I liken a Frozen Soul listening experience to having a 104°F fever in the middle of an Antarctic blizzard. Yeah. Brutal." - Jason Deaville
