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Klack

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Mixed by John Freriks

Mastered by Eric Oehler at Submersible Studios

Artwork by Jai

Also available on our label at Distortion Productions, LLC

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We’ve been on hiatus for about five years and now we’re back to writing, recording and performing music again!

In November 2019, we put out a three song EP titled Rebirth on Distortion Productions. It’s a sampler CD that includes some of the new music we are currently working on that we want to share with you.

Many of you have supported us over the past 15 years and for that we want to say a word of thanks for listening to our CD’s, coming to our shows and buying us out of all of our merch! It’s time to open a new chapter moving into 2020 as we continue to work on new songs and perform at our upcoming show taking place in Madison, Wisconsin at The Crucible, Saturday, April 11, 2020. We’ll be sharing the stage with Am.Psych and one more band yet to be announced.

That’s all for now. Stay tuned for more details about our next live event!

Photo by Grant Griffiths

Each time we put out an album, we submit our music for nomination to the Madison Area Music Association Awards. This year we submitted “Voyager” for Electronic Album, “Sirens of the Sea” for Electronic Song, “JAI” for Female Vocalist and our very own keyboardist “BobO’Tron” for DJ.

The MAMAs, Inc. is organized and operates exclusively for charitable or educational purposes, as defined in Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The mission of the MAMAs is to support the preservation and expansion of all forms of music education in the Madison area, and to encourage and promote the artistic advancement of our emerging musical youth.

Please consider supporting the next generation of artists and musicians by voting for  Sensuous Enemy at the MAMAs. The cost is $5 to register and the proceeds all go to support the next generation of musicians in Wisconsin. Go to http://www.themamas.org and sign up today! Make sure to click View Summary/Record Vote before leaving the site to make sure that the artists you have chosen are selected.

We will be performing our songs from our new album “Voyager”, along with a wide variety of other MAMAs nominees, at a benefit show taking place at The High Noon Saloon and The Brass Ring on Memorial Day Weekend. We’ll post more details as we receive them. Thank you for your support!

We are running a special 2013 year end CD sale!
Purchase between now and December 31st and receive all three CD’s for $20 at our Big Cartel store!

If you’ve made a new year’s resolution to lose weight in 2014, there are some fabulous dance songs to pump you up for your workouts! Check out Whispers from our “Fragments” CD, Intentions from our “Parity” CD and Sirens of the Sea from our newest CD “Voyager”.

Sensuous Enemy 2012

We started in 2004 and put out our first album “Deadly Sins”, which included six original songs and one cover that was released on Sonic Mainline label out of Madison, Wisconsin, owned and operated by Matt Fanale of the band Caustic.



In 2006 we came out with our first full length album “Fragments” with eight originals, one cover and four incredibly powerful remixes from some of the most well known bands in the EDM Industrial music genre.
The album was mixed and produced by Wade Alin of the bands The Atomica Project & Christ Analogue in Chicago and also released on Sonic Mainline label.

Then after a couple of years of continued growth and changing members we signed to a new label called Radio-Active-Music [RAM] out of Virginia Beach, Virginia, owned and operated by Laura Hofford. We released “Parity” in 2010 with three original songs and seven fabulous remixes.
In 2011 we continued writing new songs, we designed a new light show, performed numerous shows throughout the Midwest and we delivered a powerful and exciting east coast tour.

By the middle of 2013 we had written nine more songs. We wrote and recorded all summer and released our single “Sirens of the Sea” this past September with five moving remixes. In one short week you’ll now be able to purchase and listen to our newest and second full length album “Voyager”, with nine original songs, mixed and produced by Wisconsonites Dan Clark of Listless Works and mastered by Eric Oehler of Submersible Studios!
We will be performing most of “Voyager” at The Frequency in downtown Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday November 16th, with our new label mates Null Device and pounding dance beats provided by DJ Siberia!

That isn’t all though. The best news is that we recently signed with the long established, well known Nilaihah Records out of Columbus, OH,owned and operated by Kristy Venrick of the band The Azoic!! Both our single “Sirens of the Sea” and our full length album “Voyager” will be released under Nilaihah Records this month! We’re so excited to be a part of the Nilaihah team of bands and friends!! Check out our music and some of the fabulous bands currently signed to Nilaihah Records!

We look forward to performing for you in the near future. Thanks to all of our family, friends and fans and for all of your support, love and dedication. We could not have done this without YOU!

Photo by Grant Griffiths
Artwork by Katy Sewell

Recently, John Freriks, our programmer/guitarist, moved to Chicago to find work in his field of studies and to move on with his life in a bigger city. This venture will offer him many opportunities that he just won’t find here in small town Madison where jobs are few and people are vastly over-educated. We are truly happy for him and wish him the very best on his new path in the windy city. This does not mean that we won’t continue to write, record and perform music, it just makes it a bit more complicated.

It’s only been a few weeks and already one of the things I miss are our regularly scheduled Thursday rehearsals, the time when we would talk about songs we’re working on and ideas for our next CD, or about sound and lighting from the most recent events we attended or about the political landscape of America. It was the few moments of this particular day where I felt like all parts of my life came together and made sense, but now it feels a bit disjointed and I am struggling to figure out where we go from here.

We will continue to work together using the internet, various applications and communication tools in order to keep making music together, however, not physically being together to talk about all of it is going to be very difficult for me. I truly enjoy the intimacy and connectivity of the weekly rehearsals, getting together to chat about our lives and playing music together. Although my head knows this is a good decision for John, my heart says something entirely different.

With all the recent changes of John’s move and discussion on how we’re going to evolve Sensuous Enemy, we had to make a hard decision. Due to the direction we’re going, we felt the need to pair it down to the bare essentials in order to continue as a more electronic band with a cleaner sound.  We thought long and hard about our decision and finally made the change last month. This doesn’t mean that we won’t ever use a live drummer again, but for now, we’re going to try it without one by programming more drum tracks and having our keyboardists produce synth sounds instead. We are grateful for the time and energy Chris Wenzel gave to Sensuous Enemy and we wish him the very best in his future musical endeavors. Please wish him a good farewell.

SIRENS OF THE SEA!!

We just released our new digital single EP “Sirens of the Sea”! The CD includes remixes from I:Scintilla, Endless Blue, Loss and Killcrop! One original and five remixes are FREE to download on our Sensuous Enemy at Bandcamp account. You can also pick it up from our Sensuous Enemy at Soundcloud account.

Thanks go out to Dan Clark of Listless Works and Eric Oehler of Submersible Studios for recording, mixing and mastering this fabulous single EP for us!

Our sophomore full length CD “Voyager” will be released this November 2013!!