Throwback: “Know Your Enemies” by Skinlab!

Masterminded by vocalist and bassist Steev Esquivel, Skinlab first came over our Metal Horizon in 1997 with debut album “Bound, Gagged And Blindfolded“. A Groove Metal quartet, often underrated and too quickly compared with Machine Head due to both bands hailing from the Bay Area, they have worked their way through numerous line up changes and hiatuses but they still managed to smash out five studio albums. It was the second of these records in “Disembody The New Flesh” which got our attention with single “Know Your Enemies” turning heads. Recorded at Village Studios, El Paso, Texas with Producer Andy Sneap (Opeth, Killswitch Engage) in 1999, it appeared via Century Media as Nu-Metal began to take a stranglehold…