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1.0 History

1.1 Pre-Evile: 2000–2004

1.2 Birth of Evile: 2004–2006

1.3 Enter the Grave: 2007–2009

1.4 Infected Nations: 2009–present

2.0 Musical influences

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Evile (prounounced "eeh-vile" ^[1]) are a thrash metal band from Huddersfield, United Kingdom.

Their debut album, "Enter the Grave," was produced by Flemming Rasmussen at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark and was released worldwide in 2007 by Earache Records.

The band's first reviews included a hail by Kerrang! as "Carrying the genre's whole 'revival' on their shoulders." ^[2]

Evile's second album, Infected Nations, will be released in September 2009. It has been produced by Russ Russell ^[3], with artwork from Michael Whelan.

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History

Pre-Evile: 2000–2004

In 2000, former school friends Matt Drake and Ben Carter came together over a mutual love for thrash metal and heavy metal and formed a cover band (primarily playing Metallica classics) named Metal Militia. ^[4] Matt's brother, Ol Drake, joined as the lead guitarist, and after London-born bassist Mike Alexander responded to the band's advert in a local guitar store looking for a bassist influenced by bands such as Metallica, Sepultura and Testament, the lineup was complete.

At the band's first live show, at the Ukrainian Club in Halifax, an audience member had a brick thrown at their face by area locals. ^[5]

Birth of Evile: 2004–2006

In 2004, the band ceased playing covers and dedicated their time to writing original material. Soon after, they independently recorded and released two EPs in limited quantities (250-500 units): All Hallows Eve (2004) and Hell Demo (2006). Evile toured extensively throughout the UK (2004-2006) and Netherlands (2006), played as the support act for Exodus and eventually signed to Earache Records. Though Earache had received the band's Hell Demo, it was after label head Digby Pearson witnessed Evile's set at Bloodstock Open Air in 2006 that he contacted the band and signed them to the label. ^[6]

Enter the Grave: 2007–2009

Prior to the album's recording, Matt Drake contacted producer Flemming Rasmussen (Metallica, Morbid Angel, Blind Guardian, Artillery) by doing a search for his name on Google and enquired as to whether or not he'd like to hear Evile's material. Flemming responded positively, prompting Matt to send him some Evile mp3s via e-mail. Supposedly, Flemming never commented on the mp3s, causing Matt to presume that he "hated them" ^[7], but when Earache Records contacted Flemming to request his skills as producer for Evile's debut, he swiftly accepted the offer. ^[7]

In 2007, Evile recorded their debut album, Enter the Grave, at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen with producer Flemming Rasmussen and assistant engineer Anders H Mortensen. The album reached #33 on the UK rock album charts, and Kerrang! magazine awarded the album 4 out of 5 stars while dubbing Evile as "Carrying the genre's whole 'revival' on their shoulders" ^[9]. Generally, the album was received positively and received some highly rated reviews, including those from Terrorizer Magazine (9/10) ^[10], Metal Revolution (100/100) ^[11] and Classic Rock (magazine) (the 38th best album of 2007). ^[12]

The band played many shows with bands such as Machine Head, Sabbat, Sanctity, Gama Bomb, Severe Torture and Desecration.

On December 11, 2007, Evile participated in and won ^[13] Metal Hammer's Get in the Ring 2, at the Kentish Town Forum, London. Four bands (Evile, Engel, Viking Skull and Goat the Head) performed thirty-minute sets inside a boxing ring and the public selected their favorite via SMS texts. The show was compered by Oderus Urungus of Gwar and the judges included Ville Valo of HIM. Valo commented that Evile were "really tight and rhythmic" ^[13] but they weren't his "cup of tea." The competition was rebroadcast on Rockworld TV on SKY Channel 368 throughout January and February 2008 and included an hour-long supplement dedicated to Evile's GITR2 set. ^[15]

In February and March 2008, Evile supported Megadeth on the European leg of their Tour of Duty and the UK leg of their Gigantour, opening for American deathcore band Job for a Cowboy. The band was received warmly throughout the respective tours, ^[16] and on the final date, they briefly joined Megadeth on stage at the Hugennottenhalle in Frankfurt to sing the classic Peace Sells.

In March 2008, Evile's track "Thrasher" was featured on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 video game Rock Band as downloadable content (part of the "Earache Thrash Pack"). The song is considered one of the most difficult for guitar and bass guitar in any rhythm game. ^[17]

In April 2008, the band embarked on a European tour alongside thrash band Exodus. During the tour, they allowed a 14-year-old fan to join them on stage to perform "Enter the Grave" ^[18], and on a few occasions they joined Exodus in backing vocals on "The Toxic Waltz," which was followed by the members of Exodus handing their instruments over to Evile to close the set. ^[19].

In May 2008, the band invited fans to design their own 'Evile Shirt'. A competition that allowed fans to submit as many entries as they desire. The rules also comically included entrants must 'Live on Earth'. The winner (Gary Hall from Liverpool) would win Evile memorabilia, signed items and a shirt including their own design. The shirt would also be sold on an upcoming Evile tour ^[20].

Along with Airbourne, Engel, Baroness and Suicide Silence, Evile was nominated in the Best Debut category at the 2008 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards. ^[21]

October 08 saw the release of Evile's first official Music Video. The video was for their track "Thrasher" and was directed by Dan Fernbach (who directed bands such as Bullet For My Valentine). ^[22]

October 08 also saw the re-release of Evile's Enter the Grave via Earache Records. Included in the package was a lengthy DVD, Evile guitar pick (with 3 alternate designs), A woven patch and 3 bonus tracks. ^[23]

The band later announced they would be support to Satyricon on their European "Tour of Nero" in November/December 2008 ^[24]. Unfortunately, On 19th November 2008, while on the tour, lead guitarist Ol Drake reportedly collapsed due to health issues. His jaw was fractured and the under-side of his chin was cut open. Evile were forced to cancel their appearances on the remainder of the tour. ^[25] ^[26] He then had to have his jaw wired shut for two weeks for healing. ^[27]

Beginning in April 2009, Evile began the UK/Ireland 'We Who Are About to Tour' tour along with UK Death Metal act Trigger the Bloodshed, and London Thrash band Mutant. Warpath, who were originally scheduled for the tour, pulled out two days prior to the start of the tour (though the unfortunate injury occurred a week before the tour ^[28]) leaving Evile two days to find a replacement band. ^[29] ^[30] Evile played two brand new songs which will be featured on their sophomore album; one entitled "Demolition" and one without a title, which on a nightly basis was open to being named by the audience. ^[31]

Infected Nations: 2009–present

In February of 2009 Evile began the pre-production process for their sophomore album with Russ Russell (who has worked with bands such as Napalm Death, The Exploited and Dimmu Borgir) ^[32]

May and June saw Evile enter Parlour Studios in Kettering with Russ to record the album. The band would post 3 video updates whilst in the studio ^[33] ^[34] ^[35], and give fans a chance to "Ask Evile" anything they want via their Myspace Blog ^[36].

On an Evile studio tour hosted by Ben the working titles of songs to be on the album could be seen written on a whiteboard. ^[37]

On June 22, Evile revealed the Title of the second album will be "Infected Nations", with artwork created by Michael Whelan (who also worked with the likes of Sepultura, Obituary and Stephen King). The album is slated to be released on September 21st in Europe and September 22nd in USA ^[38]. A video was posted online on the same day of Ol talking fans through the concept of the art, stood in front of a large poster print of the cover ^[39].

The tracklisting of Infected Nations was confirmed to be:

# Infected Nation # Now Demolition # Nosophoros # Genocide # Plague To End All Plagues # Devoid Of Thought # Time No More # Metamorphosis # Hundred Wrathful Deities

Online rumors that "Infected Nation"/"Infected Nations" refers to the current global Swine Flu epidemic were squashed by Ol on the bands Official Forum ^[40].

Musical influences

Evile's sound is primarily influenced by classic thrash metal, citing bands such as Metallica, Megadeth, Sepultura, Slayer, Exodus, Testament and Annihilator, though they are also influenced by death metal bands like Obituary ^[41]. December 08 saw Lead Guitarist Ol pay tribute to the Late Chuck Schuldiner by covering Death's "Voice of the Soul", showing the latter band having influence over at least one Evile member. ^[42]