{"id":86085,"date":"2020-09-16T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=86085"},"modified":"2020-09-16T15:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T14:48:18","slug":"news-evile-sign-worldwide-album-deal-with-napalm-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-evile-sign-worldwide-album-deal-with-napalm-records\/","title":{"rendered":"EVILE Sign Worldwide Deal With Napalm Records (September 16th, 2020) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>EVILE Sign Worldwide Deal With Napalm Records<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>September 16th, 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/evile2020promophoto1news.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Huddersfield, England-based thrash metal band Evile have signed a worldwide album contract with Napalm Records, confirming this development on September 16th, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Guitarist Ol Drake commented: \u201cWe\u2019re extremely excited to announce our signing to Napalm Records! We\u2019d heard a lot of great things about Napalm over the years and it\u2019s an honour to join the ranks of some excellent bands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvile haven\u2019t released any music since 2013 so we promise to deliver a crushing thrash metal classic which I believe will surprise everyone; even the die-hard \u2018Grave\u2019 fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs <a href=\"\/site\/news-evile-announce-new-line-up\/\">previously announced<\/a>, Matt [Drake, vocals and rhythm guitar] is unfortunately no longer a part of the band, so I\u2019ve taken over on vocal duties while remaining on lead guitar too. Also, please welcome our newest member, Adam Smith of RipTide, on rhythm guitar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe begin recording with producer and engineer Chris Clancy on September 17th at Andy Sneap\u2019s Backstage Studios. We can\u2019t wait for you to hear what we have in store!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Napalm Records\u2019 A&#038;R executive Sebastian M\u00fcnch added: \u201cI am super excited to work with Ol Drake and my favorite British thrash metal band Evile. I\u2019ve been a fan since <em>Enter The Grave<\/em> [2007], and the new demos I\u2019ve already listened to sound simply amazing! Expect a monster of an album in 2021! Welcome to the Napalm family!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evile\u2019s line-up is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Ol Drake (vocals and lead guitar)<br \/>\nAdam Smith (rhythm guitar, RipTide)<br \/>\nJoel Graham (bass, ex-Rise To Addiction)<br \/>\nBen Carter (drums)<\/p>\n<p>Fourth studio record <a href=\"\/site\/album-review-evile-skull\/\"><em>Skull<\/em><\/a> was released in May 2013 via Earache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVILE Sign Worldwide Deal With Napalm Records September 16th, 2020 Huddersfield, England-based thrash metal band Evile have signed a worldwide album contract with Napalm Records, confirming this development on September 16th, 2020. Guitarist Ol Drake commented: \u201cWe\u2019re extremely excited to announce our signing to Napalm Records! We\u2019d heard a lot of great things about Napalm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4530],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evile-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86087,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86085\/revisions\/86087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}