The good thing about the new stuff is we're being quite conscious of what we write and if it sounds like "evile" as that's our vision. I know how we should sound and what our songs should be like and the vibe you should get while listening to them, but it's hard to bring that out of your yorkshire head and into actual form....
which is why we take so long with writing. you'll also notice i give really long posts on stuff like this so brace yourselves....
With ETG we were just wanting to thrash our tits off, and we did that, and looking back at what we did, yeah it sounds a lot like other bands, we're still proud of what we've done, but it was a starting point as to where this band should go and we have an idea of where we want to take it.
we have a vision of what evile could be, and we want to follow that, as we think it could lead somewhere interesting, we might get close to it with the new stuff or we might discover new things that we can aim towards next time for new material to get even closer to that vision, but the new stuff so far is so much better than ETG, it's more "EVILE" and less "oh that bit sounds like testament" or whatever.... (this is my personal view, not evile's)
but no matter what you do i guess you're always going to be compared to someone, all you can do is cut down the number of comparisons to as few as possible.
If anyone gets concerned by reading this by thinking we arent going to be thrash or anything dont bloody worry, we will always be doing fast stuff, always, BUT, for me, and i speak for me here, not evile, playing fast ALL the time bores the piss out of me, whereas playing slow stuff all the time would bore the piss out of me, as a band member or crowd member, we just want to experiment more, we're musicians, we want to improve ourselves and the band and we feel like we've begun doing that with the new stuff. It will still be thrash metal, but it won't be 80's thrash metal, it won't be modern thrash metal, it will be "EVILE". And that's what will matter.
Maybe expect a taster of new stuff early next year, maybe on tour..... but we are aiming for a mid 2009 release, it could be sooner but we had so many plans that have fallen down before us (you have no idea of the stuff we should have been doing that went tits up) that this is how things are. So stick with us, in the meantime, enjoy the reissue, come and see us when we tour, bring us some jelly beans. \m/
oh and as for cover versions, IF we ever did any, we wouldnt be doing classic thrash songs..... every band in the world just does typical crowd pleasing metal covers. sod that, i would rather do an obscure remake of something completely unmetal. thats just me though.
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