1992년도에 전신이 되는 밴드로 음악을 시작하다가 1995년에 멤버들이 바뀌고 재정비되면서 이들은 '엔비(Envy)'를 밴드 명으로 사용하게 됐다. 4개의 정규 작과 수많은 EP들, 그리고 디스 머신 킬스(This Machine Kills), 엔디어보(Endeavor), 식스 펜스(Six Pence), 이스가리옷(Iscariote), 그리고 야펫 코토(Yaphet Kotto)등 과의 스플릿 앨범을 발표하면서 점차 세력을 키워나간다. 후덕한 인상의 보컬/건반의 테츠야 후카가와, 기타에 노부카타 카와이, 마사히로 토비타, 베이시스트 마나부 나카가와, 그리고 드럼에 다이로쿠 세키의 5인조로 구성되어 있는 엔비는 극한의 괴성과 감성적인 발라드를 교미 시키려는 시도를 보여주면서 주목을 받았다. 비슷한 밴드들은 많이 있어왔지만 지극히 독보적인 사운드를 들려주고 있다는 평을 이끌어내면서 현재 최고의 네임 밸류를 자랑하고 있다.
[Breathing and Dying In This Place] EP 발매 이후 데뷔작 [From Here To Eternity]를 1998년에 발표하면서 본격적으로 씬에 뛰어든다. 꾸준한 투어 이후 [Angel's Curse Whispered In The Edge Of Despair], [Burning Out Memories], [The Eyes Of A Single Eared Prophet] 등의 EP들을 1년에 한번 꼴로 발표한다. 그리고 대망의 두 번째 정규앨범 [All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead]를 2001년에 발표하면서 비로소 전세계를 휩쓴다. 미국에서는 딤 맥(Dim Mak : 블록 파티(Bloc Party)라던가 본 본디스(The Von Bondies), 그리고 배틀즈(Battles)의 EP들이 여기서 나왔음)에서 발매됐으며, 얼마 전 다른 디자인으로 템포러리 레지던스(Temporary Residence Limited)에서 재발매 되기도 했는데 미국에서는 레벨 플레인(Level Plane)에서 발매 됐던 2003년 작 [A Dead Sinking Story] 또한 다른 커버 디자인으로 재발매가 이뤄졌다. 참고로 현재 템포러리 레지던스에서는 이 두 장의 과거 정규 작 이외에도 희귀트랙, 비정규 음원 모음집인 [Compiled Fragments 1997-2003]와 라이브 DVD [Transfovista] 등을 발표하면서 미국에 뒤늦게 과거의 족적을 소개하고 있다. 일본에서는 [All The Footprints You've Ever Left And The Fear Expecting Ahead] 앨범 까지는 H.G. 팩트(H.G. Fact)에서 발매하다가 [A Dead Sinking Story]부터 자신들이 주축이 된 손자이(Sonzai)에서 직접 유통하기 시작한다.
2003년부터 영국 포스트락씬의 수퍼스타 모과이(Mogwai)와 조우하면서 그들의 락 액션(Rock Action) 레코드에서 [A Dead Sinking Story]를 영국에 릴리즈하고 모과이의 일본투어 당시에는 함께 공연하기도 한다. 어느덧 초대형 페스티벌로 입지를 굳히고 있는 올 투마로스 파티스(All Tomorrow's Parties)에서 2004년에 공연하며 그 이후 영국 투어를 실시하기도 했다. 역시 현재 엄청난 인기를 구가하고 있는 아이시스(Isis)와 투어를 다니기도 했으며 2005년에는 프랑스의 [Furyfest]에 출연하면서 서서히 유럽으로 영역을 넓혀간다. 유럽과 미국 이외에도 한국, 홍콩, 대만에서 투어를 펼치면서 아시아 지역의 팬들을 확보하게 된다. 템포러리 레지던스에 합류한 이후에는 그 쪽 출신의 모노(Mono) 라던가 익스플로전스 인 더 스카이(Explosions In The Sky)와 함께 미국/유럽에서 공연하는 경우가 많았는데 곧 있을 4월말에도 이들과 함께 레이드 페스티벌(Raid Festival)이라는 명목 하에 일본에서 공연할 예정에 있다.
엔비의 공연은 유명하다. 대부분의 공연 리뷰에는 'Fucking'이라는 단어가 끊이질 않는데 관객들은 절규를 멈추지 않으며 이들의 순수한 감성에 미쳐버리곤 한다. 몇몇 사이트에 가면 이들이 최고의 라이브를 보여주는 밴드로 지목되는 것을 심심찮게 목격할 수 있을 것이다. 굉음과 절규를 바탕으로 한 격렬함과 아름다움이 공존하는 사운드로 하드코어/스크리모 이외의 팬들 뿐만 아니라 포스트락, 인디락 팬들에게도 사랑받고 있다. .... ....
Lastly, stare at the sky and praise the will. Reconciliations lying sprawled one on top of the other. Action gets ahead of us. Keep believing without realizing a long gone shadow. Hide a voicless word I saved yesterday And lose track of it.
Time goes on treasuring the fact in my mind That your pain has gone. Grief repeats one way or the other, Leave the door open with high thoughts. Damage the present memories. It stretches a complex maze. Stray into it, pause for a moment, And trace its shape deeply.
A heart embeaces the courage and stops secretly. It forgets the times. Fall asleep within the sound. Leaving us behind.
A face of darkness is so peaceful. We got a little envious of it. I reflect my thoughts and prayed for my pain to stop. I became naught for a will remains in the ashes. My heart moves and gets high. My eyes freeze on. My heart avoids the truth and the eyes. And now the words echo. They were spelled by scraping my life. Now the voice I kept screaming crossing my mind. Cry only once and now I desperately ride on time. Divided and found, I saw the end. The answer I tell by ceasing. Farewell is incomplete. Believe and doubt. The the beginning starts.
Eternally echoing The sequel of long felt pain. A shining light. The road floats. The meaning of the split is A ritual of passage.
Sing on, to the will of the twins. Go beyond and meet. The time of oblivion.
Look for it and spread despair. Days of miracle tied rapidly. Imagine the unchanging pledge, Go into a whirlpool. Educated the present time. Being pushed to the front. Catch my breath. Abandon everything. Shield of selflessness. Orders I take. Put out my mind.
Truths, your useless tears. Shine, your voice of possibility.
No reason to wait for anything. Thoughts are flowing endlessly. Prayer awaits sitting. Gets to you and effects deeply Into your mind A parting is engraved. The scene is written. Hang it in the sky With a line of distinction.
Countless dead eyes without their dreams ever paid off. The words of a poet reflect in a drift of daily life that had spit out. Fragments of memory are on the way and they are supposed to be right. The fact that it is 2. The silence swore to proceed till the end. The crystallization of the time.
Picture a light, a personality on my mind. Catch the ripped wishes with my hands. Regulation and existence even lost the meaning. Fought with difference and the doubt was born. A smile and an answer filled with loneliness. A warped mirror shows the criticism.
The group-mind is brightly decorated and erased its identity. You speak and go beyond the present time to find eternity. The times marked the painful eternity. The same condition gained the pain.
Suppress my mind and the last word falls.
I stand where no one would see. We make, and steal the process. You who read and the standart are fair. Not a single truth, so sleep on the ground.
Just like the poem tells the marked destiny. Find the heartbeat hanging faraway, future lines up in front grows immaturely. The goal is the liberation of a mind. Guilt chase. It goes as it wishes, hiding the abnormity. Will you smile? Will you notice? The painful lifeless shell after the exhaustion. It's you who gets hurt and the questions have tossed in. You have no words worth to answer.
Circulating water stopped by the damage. Your understanding is stuffed and goes wrong. You talk your past in vain. The forgotten current, is it still free?
The difference of reflection exists in a line between the manipulated ones and the thinkers. Returning is equal to a total denying, you find happiness at the dark bottom. Believe in the false power, flirt with the smell, the voices won't reach, it always become the scream of the defeated ones. Beloved place we go hand in hand has the same color. Force ourselves to overcome those problems that make no sense. Many things for me to grasp, but for you they make no sense. Being chased around by my own sense of values and it shuts down my paths. You just have to set it free, not to restrict. Beliefs and individual ideals ends by telling, and tommorow also ends.
Repeat the tiny happiness. Pass by the everyday life. Charmed by the temporary change. Accompanied the established trust. Lies are inevitable. Need those words that went away and the tiny voice floats in times and echoes forever. The road never disappears and the spreading smoke wraps the colorless times. You just have to receive. My meaningless words are the questions to myself. Everything is here. It disappears in a moment.
You just have to let the voice delivered. This sound, and the proof of heart. I go save the hanging thoughts. In hurry. These feet go where they should go to. Carry the wishes to the quiet place where the pieces sleep.
At a quick pace I'm going to the place where many of them glow. Ceasing stands for the beautiful setback and segmentation. Overcome the black plots with the white gentleness. Many stares betrayed the time.
I carry my exhausted body. Bring the unknown glow into a life. Start up the thoughts. To the future. Ahead of us. The stretch of a light we saw is the scar of hundreds of answers. Paint. Paint the weakness of the ones who creep along.
Refutation I shoot to defend me all the way. Your words float and flow. They say they received them. The mysteries of today tumbles down, they should be announced. Farewell for good, believing the kindness tommorow.
Back to back with fear. Reflect them in the tiny sky. You behave against your look. A lot of truths are here. A long thought overflows only from one man's mouth and ears. The intentions are the screen that starts with grief.
One step ahead to the time of nothingness. Get permission from you whom I have outlived. Scattered infinity collected in my hands. Eyes opened for the last sensed sign.
Blessings. They are given. To the world I turned my back. The conversations can't heal. The fate at the early stages.
A hope in mind is secret, and a worn out smile reflects in a mirror. Bad dreams go right away and the world was destroyed when I woke up. We eat the fruit. Make up meanings. Seduce the reasons. Maintain the intellect. Want madly, embrace the solitude tightly and the memories I never forget. A profile I never forget.
Write the facing time with the fragments. Save them and pile up their first cries of births. Devote myself solely to writing to figure out the changing prediction. Ones who changed by it. False name and a careless face echoes right before my eyes. Words of disqualification. Will they reach me? I see the end now. Let's go home.
Painted all and spit out Stare at the air in the sound of rain A song & sleep to unknown you Reach out and doubt my lips
A crooked oath I write with my bare hand I turn my eyes away and write solitude Hold hands with a shapeless shadow and it always sways us to crush.
The end of the day pops with the constant wind and points its finger.
Erase all and swallow. Cleanse my mind under the sound of wind. Connect the line that cuts me dead. Wait for the quiet and peaceful tomorrow.
Ahead of the absent life and the erased voice. The secret of value goes freely. The blank is colorless. Hopes flash deep inside the opened eyes. I refuse them.
Conveyed the beloved words and eyes and the fading piece is sinking. Run on the laid out road to a dead end. Admit a lot, make the all clear sight as my raison d'etre. Nameless mind. My feeling rides on the scene...
The cruel history is still holding. The time raised this valuable theory. Learning crushes the mistakes. Only on the days we cry, we rip the times.
And now, the background of the stories we tell and pass. We know it and the truth at the bottom is crazed. What our behavior means. What comes from our knowledge? Though we wait, the answers won't come ahead.
Cannot connect each person's thinking. Everything is ill-matched and awkward. High ideal. Sickness and poor minds. Ignorance becomes a brag. Such a sad distance. A miracle of sinful brains.
Now switch. Dare tomorrow. Hold a great force to avoid agony. Left in a self-alienation. Have faith in both erasing you out and loving you. The origins play frightened in a small garden.
You extend your heartbeat hoping to Satisfactiory circulation Forget the body you have entrusted Smile at the corner of memories
Even an accidental streaming voice wont touch tomorrow Awkwardly pile up the isolation with anxiety one by one It keeps talking without ceasing before me Even i can do little There is nothing i want to hear What is that i can do for now?
The times i saw the place i ended up I grasp the vision i found in the end
Shut everything up from the world again For a tiny ray of light Set it free from this anxiety Raise it carefully There is ntohing here Suffer for nothing as it is Walk around cause its entertaining Couldnt keep the promises to replace you I always carry it with me until the time comes I know you wont wait Because you are farther away from me Caught up only be earning Dont even try to let it go
At the end of the world i found out i cant turn back Staring with farewell. then comes the time the promise expects Someday...
Eyes that abandon individuality and hope you dislike Exhausted moment melts into a given sigh.
This feeling goes on endlessley I obtained after a total transformation The map comes back into a faded color I tear it and stray The past, tomorrow, the future, its all fixed It goes on, intense, growl, it goes on Stop, eternally, calm, stop Reach ahead, stir, reach Mark today- go mad and mark