Not too keen on Schizophrenia. I think that kind of Thrash is bellow Evile. It's not a bad song or anything but I much prefer the stomp-stomp-stomp stuff like Russian Roulette to:

- 000 000 000 666 333 111 etc.

I much prefer the new version of Enter the Grave. The guitars sound way better, especially in the solos.

What about the vocals though?

Yeh I'm not a big fan of these new vocals.. they sound all weird and pristine..

thrashduck wrote:Yeh I'm not a big fan of these new vocals.. they sound all weird and pristine..

yeah i don't think i could say i dislike them but they are certainly very different to what we are used to from the demos, will take me a while to adjust

MartinC wrote:What about the vocals though?

They are slightly different to the demos but, if anything, they remind me more of newer Thrash stuff like The Antichrist by Destruction. I'm fairly indifferent to what slight changes have been made. The production on their second demo was album quality anyway so changing something that good is also going to split opinions.

Vocals i agree do need to be a little rougher again, there was something a bit more in your face about that...
the new track schizophrenia FUCKING RULES though, that bit at the end = perfect.
Love the fact enter the grave is intact also, actually sounds BETTER than the original

Vocals don't really grab me by the bollards, but I don't dislike them at all. However I do agree they could do with being a bit more powerful.

sounding really good is this, cant wait till the album!

Its great to see Earache taking on these old school style bands.

I'm enjoying the production values, nice and heavy, and I quite like the doubly / chorus effect on the vocals, gives it a bit more umph (is it an effect, or are they just double recorded and overlaid on each other).

The two new songs sound very Evile, with that same scale you always seem to use, which isn't a bad thing, Evile are very good, but they sometimes have a tendency of sounding a bit too much like each other.

However, personally I'm truely pissed off about the new recordings because the single best bit of any Evile song EVER has been totally ruined in the new recordings. At 3:00 exactly in the demo of Enter the Grave is the awesome bit where Ben kicks the living shit out of the crash cymbal, it's a supremely awesome part and the highlight of the whole Hell demo in my opinion. But in the new version, you begin hearing the crash, but then it fades into the background, totally removing the entire point of the section. I found myself yelling "nooooo!" at the screen when I first heard it and just putting the demo on instead. Pah!


But yeah, ignoring the blasphemous cymbal silencing, overall it sounds sweet, and you should be most proud of yourselves.

the guitarist from municipal waste says evile are a great band in an interview in the august edition of terrorizer magazine