Evildead will be releasing their new album on May 24th. It's already added to their MA page:
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/E ... ce/1222592

They have always been one of my favourite C-list thrash metal bands. First two albums are classics and I really liked their reunion album from 2020.

First singles:

The album cover is super cringey.

Cool, I've always liked 'Annihilation of civilization' and must remember to revisit 'United states of anarchy', I remember liking it when it came out but it got lost in the usual flood of releases.
PS: The guy on the second cover looks like Josep Borrell, Catalan/Spanish politician who is now (inexplicably) head of diplomacy of the EU

i liked United States of Anarchy. im noticing on these two songs that the singer seems to really be phoning it in. he was never fantastic, but he at least brought some heat in his delivery. Raising Fresh Hell has zero energy to it, which is crazy given the lyrical subject.

i actually dig both pieces of art on these singles, but the album art is absolutely awful. doing an anti-lockdown thing in 2024? get with the times guys.

hope for a better mastering!

The detail of the sheep head guy's family photos where no one else has a sheep's head is quite funny. Even if you're generous about what message it sends out (government control people with fear, rather than antivaxx or anything) overall it just comes off as extraordinarily dated.

'Raising Fresh Hell' sounds like a parody of 80s metal. The kind of thing you'd see on an episode of Married...with Children.

Embarrassing.

Some bands haven't aged well. "C-list thrash metal" summed up this band for me. It wasn't that I thought they sucked or anything, rather, I just thought they were just super average and there was so many better bands out at the time that I never really got into them.

Not digging this at all. Annihilation of Civilization is a minor classic in my book and I like The Underworld too but both of their comeback albums haven't done anything for me. In fact it annoy's me that United States of Anarchy is their highest rated album on MA, which is a fuckin joke.

The new single 'Subjugated Souls' is so bad that it's almost entertaining.

Ranting about social media in 2024 is as edgy as Family Matters. The vocal delivery is feeble. The album art looks like it was lifted from a tshirt being sold out of a trailer at a Trump rally.

This sucks the big one.