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Ol Drake - Biography


Biography

Ol was born in Huddersfield, UK on March 28th 1984.

He started to play the guitar around 1996 when he was 12 and was playing live by 16. in 1999, Ol played lead guitar for a local covers band called Metal Militia. In 2003 the band became bored with playing covers and began to write their own material; this is when Evile was formed.

Evile released 4 studio albums with Ol between 2006 and 2013 with Earache Records (Enter The Grave, Infected Nations, Five Serpent's Teeth and Skull) touring around the world in such places as the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, The United States, Canada and Taiwan.

Ol spent several years throughout his teenage years learning and transcribing most of Annihilator's back-catalogue for the guitar. Annihilator master-mind, Jeff Waters, would later add these transcriptions to the official Annihilator website.

The classic Thrash Metal band Destruction invited Ol to step in on guitar for a short period, to be later invited to guest on their two albums Day Of Reckoning and Spiritual Genocide. After the passing of Evile's Mike Alexander, Destruction invited Ol on stage at Damnation Festival to pay tribute to him by playing some of Mike's favourites with the band.

In September 2013, Ol announced he had started writing material for a solo venture. The project would be called Old Rake, which originated from fans of Evile's play on the name "Ol Drake". The album is slated for a June 22nd EU/June 23rd NA release via Earache Records.