Year : 2021
Style : Heavy Metal , Thrash Metal
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 117 mb
Bio:
Evile are a british Heavy Metal outfit from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire in the UK.Founded by school friends Matt Drake and Ben Carter, later joined by Matt’s brother Ol on lead guitar, a short search for a bass player via an ad in a local guitar store saw bassist Mike Alexander join the fold. Evile, yet to be called so, initially formed in 1999 playing covers in their local area. Initially Influenced by bands such as Metallica, Sepultura, Exodus, Annihilator and Slayer to name but a few, the band would create “Evile” in 2003. Despite being un-signed at the time, Evile were hand-picked to headline the second stage of Bloodstock Open Air ’06.After seeing their performance at Bloodstock ’06 the legendary Earache Records offered Evile a record deal. They signed in October ’06. Evile would go on to record their debut “Enter the Grave” in Copenhagen’s Sweet Silence Studios with Flemming Rasmussen of Metallica fame at the helm. “Kerrang!” dubbed Evile to be “Carrying the genre’s whole ‘revival’ on their shoulders”, with other positive reviews from press such as Metal Hammer, Terrorizer, Zero Tolerance and Classic Rock Magazine. Evile would go on to win Metal Hammer’s “Get in the Ring” battle of the bands competition on Rockworld TV.The band went on to be main support to Megadeth (Feb/Mar of ’08 in Europe) and Exodus (Apr of ’08 in Europe) which in the same month saw Evile’s “Thrasher” included on Xbox360/PS3 videogame Rockband as downloadable content.The second chapter in Evile’s history comes by the name “Infected Nations” – produced by Russ Russell and original artwork by Michael Whelan. A modern take on Thrash Metal, finding the band coming into a sound of their own. The album went into the top 100 album chart in the UK after its release on September 21st ’09. Evile kicked off the release on September 25th ’09 with a release show/party at Islington Academy, London to then embark on a 2 month long European tour with Amon Amarth and Entombed. After playing 2 headline shows in Germany on the way to Scandinavia, disaster struck when founding bassist Mike Alexander (1977-2009) collapsed in Lulea, Sweden and tragically died on his way to hospital from a pulmonary embolism. He was 32 years old.The band would organise two special tribute shows to Mike (in Leeds and London, UK) in December 09 running a special raffle in which many bands donated items to raise money for Mike’s family, some of which included Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer and Machine Head. After a short break the band announced they would continue as they meant to go on. Auditions were held and Evile subsequently welcomed new member Joel Graham (ex-Rise to Addiction) into the fold to permanently take on the bass duties.2010 saw Evile tour extensively throughout North America with bands such as Kreator, Overkill, Forbidden, Voivod, Vader and Warbringer, aswell as European festivals such as Wacken Open Air, Bloodstock Open Air and Hellfest.Having just released their third album ‘Five Serpent’s Teeth‘, the band look set to take on the world in 2011 and beyond.
Album:
I love technical guitar playing, I love meaty riffs, I love all this at speed. One thing that gets me excited even more than all that though is a band that progresses their sound and makes changes, even subtle ones, between each record. Unsurprisingly then I love Evile, and their latest record especially.Since their debut album Enter The Grave Evile have forged their own Metallica-esq brand of fast, tight, pin-point thrash metal. However after the debut, there wasn't really anything more they needed to prove in the fast, technical ability and sheer ripping thrash categories and so each album since then has seen experiments and changes in their style. Slowing things a little for their second album, mixing speeds more for the third and adding more vocal melody. In each of these last two albums they got closer and closer to the optimum mix, "the Evile sound" that is present throughout their work as a constant undercurrent. So how close were they with their fourth album.Skull is the perfect storm as far as I'm concerned. The speed is balanced with slower parts in the right places, the solos are ripping and technically beautiful as ever from Ol (I'm devastated he has left!) and the riffs shred. Matt's vocals are the best they have been and it is great to hear how he has developed from his loud shouting in the first album to his melodic singing on their fourth. But what makes this is the songwriting. All the above elements are combined perfectly and this is straight up one of the best thrash albums of the last few years. It's up there with Testament's Dark Roots and Kreator's Phantom Antichrist for sure. This is what Evile have always been striving towards, this is what they always wanted to sound like and this is what modern thrash should sound like. It's not the wacky, tongue in cheek sort like Gama Bomb or The Waste, this is more akin to the pinpoint barrage of Megadeth or Annihilator, technical, fast, but wrapped in melody and delivered in a hurricane. Pick up a copy, bang your head sore and enjoy. I look forward to the next.
Line Up:
Ol Drake - Guitars (lead) (2004-2013, 2018-present), Vocals (2020-present) - See also: Ol Drake, Reabo, ex-Destruction (live)
Ol Drake - Guitars (lead)
Matt Drake - Guitars (rhythm), Vocals
Ben Carter - Drums (2004-present)
Tracklist:
01. Underworld 04:37
02. Skull 06:31
03. The Naked Sun 06:04
04. Head of the Demon 04:24
05. Tomb 07:26
06. Words of the Dead 04:16
07. Outsider 03:37
08. What You Become 04:54
09. New Truths, Old Lies 06:35
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