By DAN SOUTHALL
I HAVE long been a fan of Evile and their sometimes meandering thrash revival. Unfortunately, toward the end of their first run in the mid 2010s things just got stale.
The release of Hell Unleashed from out of nowhere in 2021 brought a new fire and added venom much to the delight of the their fans. From the instant this album kicks off, the same can’t be said.
Evile have always been enamoured with Metallica, and here on album number six they smash headlong into their heroes’ boring Black period. I have never been a big fan of that period, and the half-time meandering that this album openly apes is just boring.
Every so often, something starts to wind up, such as the intro to “Monolith”, before it just falls flat again, and the less said about the over long ballad drama of “When Mortal Coils Shed”, the better. The only redeeming track on the whole album being the Megadeth-inspired “Sleepless Eyes”, the fact is everything on this album has been done before, and 1000x better. Not much sticks in the mind, but when it does, you find yourself mis-remembering and putting a mid-90’s Metallica album on, looking for that vaguely familiar riff.
I don’t really like kicking any band or their output because I believe in the hard work that they put in deserves a round of applause and their fans money for the output, but this album just doesn’t have anything of merit or value. Hopefully it is out of their system, and they come back fast and heavy before they are forgotten as another second rate band, .something Evile are far above when firing on all cylinders and revelling in the glory of the 80s thrash that they play so well.
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