ROCKET REVIEW: EVILE – “Skull” (CD)

British thrashers EVILE have released their fourth full length effort in 2013, Skull, the follow-up to 2011′s Five Serpent’s Teeth. Released via Century Media/Earache Records, Skull has many enjoyable moments but it must be said that what the listener is treated to is the band getting closer to their obvious METALLICA influence more than ever. You can literally close your eyes and guitarist/vocalist Matt Drake is a young James Hetfield. Don’t get me wrong. This band is very talented and so that is why it is frustrating that they aren’t a bit more original with their songwriting at this point.

Produced by Russ Russell at Parlour Studios, Skull delivers some ass kicking Metallica-knock offs like “Tomb” and my favorite, the high speed thriller “The Outsider”, but in my opinion if you want the real thing just go put on Master of Puppets, right?. The musicianship and production here is top notch but
you will start to get bored after multiple listens I am afraid… because you just start to feel like “Man, I have heard this riff somewhere else…” which sucks, but in the end this band is still a very important part of the revival of thrash metal going on now, I’d just like to see them step into their own one day and really create their own masterpiece.

ROCKET REVIEW
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EVILE – “Skull” (CD)
(Century Media/Earache Records/2013)

1. Underworld
2. Skull
3. The Naked Sun
4. Head of the Demon
5. Tomb
6. Words Of The Dead
7. Outsider
8. What You Become
9. New Truths Old Lies

http://www.evile.co.uk/