Evile are an English thrash metal band from Huddersfield, formed in 2004. The band's debut album, Enter the Grave, was produced by Flemming Rasmussen at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark and was released worldwide in 2007 by Earache Records to critical acclaim by fans and critics alike. The band's first reviews included a hail by Kerrang! as "Carrying the genre's whole 'revival' on their shoulders." Their second album, Infected Nations, was released on 21 September 2009. It was produced by Russ Russell, with artwork from Michael Whelan. Evile's third studio album Five Serpent's Teeth was released in 2011, also on Earache Records. A fourth album, entitled Skull, was released in the late spring of 2013 on Earache.
In 1999, former school friends Matt Drake and Ben Carter came together over a mutual love for thrash metal and heavy metal and formed a cover band named Metal Militia (primarily playing Metallica classics) Matt's brother, Ol Drake, joined as the lead guitarist, and after London-born bassist Mike Alexander responded to the band's advert in a local guitar store looking for a bassist influenced by bands such as Metallica, Sepultura and Testament, the lineup was complete.
A dead dawn's mist, unearthly cries
From shallow earth the cursed rise
A life of death broke and decayed
They walk again to bleed the day
Acceptance
For the time draws near
The darkest hour is here
Repentance
For your sins gone by
Prepare to be taken by
The living dead
The periled souls have gained new birth
They march again to reap the earth
Desecration, darkest times
The living suffer for their crimes
Acceptance
For the time draws near
The darkest hour is here
Repentance
For your sins gone by
Prepare to be taken by
The living dead
Trapped by terror, hopeless plea's
Last prayer to none, fall to your knees
Save one bullet for the end
On bitter peace you can depend
Acceptance
For the time draws near
The darkest hour is here
Repentance
For your sins gone by
Prepare to be taken by
The living dead