Evile

WITH LEAD GUITARIST OL DRAKE NOW MANNING THE MIC, ENGLAND’S EVILE RETURN TO UNLEASH VINTAGE THRASH METAL HELL WITH THEIR LATEST ALBUM

- Jeff Kitts

YOU KNOW YOUR band is a dead-ringer for classic Eighties thrash metal bands when one of your songs gets posted on YouTube every year under the heading “New Metallica Song 20xx,” and people believe it. In actuality, the recurring song is “Underworld,” the lead track from respected British speed metallers Evile’s 2013 album, Skull. “Every year it gets millions of views and people are like, ‘Oh my god, James Hetfield sounds great!’ ” says Evile guitarist and now vocalist Ol Drake. “It’s pretty funny.”

Since the group’s 2007 Earache Records debut, Enter the Grave