Scatterbox Returns With Remixed & Remastered “Enemies”

Completely remixed and remastered from the original master tapes, the album of Idaho-based hardcore-punk band will receive its first-ever vinyl release alongside digital format.

Tracklist:

1. Barf Lie
2. Captain Feeble
3. End Note
4. Skull
5. Radio Midnight
6. Twelve Ounces of Joy
7. Two Stoke Devils
8. Scenester Do’s
9. Elemental
10. Distraction
11. Robotic
12. Vice
13. Null

“Sure the provenance is stellar: somewhat up and out of the ashes of hardcore’s best and brightest, SCATTERBOX has their knotty roots almost knuckle deep into the heart of the fast and frenetic sound of 1981. Which is where it should be placed if you had any sense, any sense of authenticity or any common sense at all. So, there are bullsh*t detectors and there are bullsh*t detectors, and if you lived through 1981 the best ones are the ones on the sides of your head. You see the ears are what keep you from thinking [wrongly so] that any band AFTER 1983 was worth any sort of goddamned thing. Like dirty hippies and old jazzbos trying to tell you that ain’t sh*t happened after Janis or Miles, this type of logic comes from the gut. But it comes from the gut because the ears are not listening. Which is why this SCATTERBOX sh*t appeals so much. It has successfully tricked the ear of yesteryear that it’s at Ruthies, or the Wilson Center, or A7, or Rajis. It’s distilled all of what was cool about hearing this sh*t for the first time and managed to not make you feel bad about it THIS time. F*cking real deal? Goddamned right. Hardcore the way hardcore was played when it meant something to play it. We love these fucking guys. And you should too.” –EUGENE S. ROBINSON (Whipping Boy, Bunuel, Oxbow, Author)

Scatterbox features Tom White (vocals), Mark Cogburn (guitar), Ryan White(bass), Scott Rozell (drums), and Sean Nicol (guitar). The members of Scatterbox have also been part of Moral Crux, Green Jellÿ, Intifada, and Sterileprayer.Throughout their career, the band has remained rooted in the uncompromising spirit of hardcore punk, channeling the reckless speed and urgency of the genre’s formative years while avoiding mere nostalgia. Instead, Scatterbox combines vintage hardcore influences with a contemporary edge, embracing the sincerity, immediacy, and emotional honesty – an approach that reaches its fullest expression on Enemies.

Enemies was originally intended to become the band’s fourth full-length album, following two independently released records on their own Blackhouse Records Ltd. and Sudden Movements (2005), their first release for Washington-based Clickpop. Backed by the band’s largest recording budget to date, Enemies was recorded at Seattle’s The Tank Studios with producer Tom Pfaeffle, whose credits included Jewel, Queensrÿche, and The Blood Brothers.

“It was definitely an intimidating experience for a bunch of punkers from Idaho,” recalls Scott Rozell. “He ended up being so great to work with, and just a fantastic person all around.” Ryan White adds: “Tom took us into his studio and really made us feel at home and welcomed us like family.” The entire recording process proved unlike anything the band had experienced before. Tom White jokingly recalls: “We drank a magical beverage from the hoof of a cow. I got to use the same spit guard as Jewel”.

Before the remaining vocal sessions could take place, Pfaeffle was tragically killed in Seattle. The album was ultimately finished elsewhere under difficult circumstances, and although it was released, the band was never fully satisfied with the final mixes. Shortly after its release, label changes left Enemies with little promotional support, and the record quietly disappeared from circulation.

Nearly two decades later, the band finally regained ownership of the original master tapes. They enlisted film and audio engineer Kaleb Wrenchey (Rings of Saturn, Fetish, Infrablaster) to completely reconstruct, remix, and remaster the album, resulting in a substantially reworked version that realizes the sound Scatterbox had envisioned from the beginning. The 2026 edition also marks the album’s first-ever release on limited-edition red vinyl.

Lyrically, Enemies reflects both deeply personal struggles and the turbulent political climate surrounding its creation. “The housing market had just crashed and threw the economy into collapse. It affected many other countries as well. People were just trying to get by at that point, and some of that was translated into the lyrics. At the end of the day, we are all human; we all have jobs, families, and personal struggles, and it was just about trying to connect to whoever was listening in that respect.” says Scott Rozell. According to Tom White, “This was Bush era America (at the time of writing the record), so that dipshit gave us plenty to write about.”

Despite everything that surrounded the album’s original release, the band remembers Enemies as one of the most memorable periods of their career. “For me what makes this record special is the great times we had writing and recording it,” says Sean Nicol. “The five of us, all good friends hanging out laughing a lot and things just kind of came together.” Scott agrees: “There was a feeling of us reaching a point of success that we never thought we would reach, and that was something we were pretty proud of. It’s not like we blew up and got famous or anything like that, it was just more than I think we ever expected, which is easy when you have zero expectations. It was kind of unfortunate how things played out when it came time to actually release the record, however this new version definitely presents the album we had always wanted it to be.”

‘Enemies’ is set for release September 9 via Blackhouse Records Inc. Pre-order the LP from now on here.