When Enjoy Destroy released their debut album Little Dreams in March of 2008, the reviews were unanimously glowing as the British rock press hailed the Hampshire quartet as successors to the likes of Foo Fighters and Biffy Clyro. Here was a band who had been quietly honing their craft since their early teen years and, now with some members barely hitting the big 2-0, had a Grant Nicholas (Feeder) produced LP under their belts and the world at their feet.

Actually, world domination should have been how the happy ending went, but life had a little something else in mind for Freddie (vocals/guitar), Chris (guitar), Ed (bass) and relative newcomer Tommy (drums), and despite the presence of two winning singles, the enormous sounding melodic rock of Screamer and post-grunge rouser Mactier, both of which perfectly showcased Freddie's stadium-suited, roof raising vocals, the debut did not meet the band's expectations of success.

Enjoy Destroy, having made their album and hit the road supporting bands like Glaswegian noise monsters, Flood Of Red, metallers Alter Bridge, Juliette and The Licks, and even The Subways, began to realise a few things, like perhaps Little Dreams wasn't what the band was about. Starry-eyed about the Feeder frontman on the desk, the band's young years and self-confessed naivety meant that they took a back seat during production, leading Freddie to admit that though they loved the material, it had steered them away from their true path.

During their months on the road watching their headliners from the floor alongside the punters, Enjoy Destroy learned a few lessons about stage presence and connecting with the audience. They proved themselves fast learners, garnering excellent reviews for their own headline tour and finding that their audience now included 16-year-old girls who had seen them play with Elliot Minor, without doubt swayed also by the chiselled features and lithe on-stage charms of Freddie Armstrong, but also the head banging fans from the Reuben and Alter Bridge camps. Now a formidable threat with their live shows, which included stage invasions and furious air-guitar medleys from appreciative metallers in amongst the screams from the in-thrall front rows, there was only one thing remaining and that was, of course, capturing this step up musically.

Though still exploring their genre-defying mix of hard and soft, light and shade within the melodies, the new material has become undeniably grittier, sexier and dirtier and with this marked change has come Matt Hyde, a man no stranger to capturing ferocious riffs having worked with Bullet For My Valentine, Gallows, Funeral For A Friend, and Slipknot, to helm the recording of the band's new EP. Enjoy Destroy are casually and quietly confident, having shrugged off their growing pains, avoided the dreaded pigeon-holing that dogs so many new bands and recognised that they have hit their stride, developed some cojones and so are well and truly about to take the reins and return fighting because for the four of them this is all they know and all they will ever want to do.

If it was previously thought that Enjoy Destroy were a band to challenge the arena-sized anthems of Silverchair, Biffy or indeed the Foos, then now may be the time to start laying the bets because unarguably the sleepy town of Basingstoke is about to find out they've got four new favourite, albeit goddamn loud, sons.