Band:	Evile
Album:	Infected Nations
Style:	Thrash metal
Release date:	September 21, 2009
Guest review by:	Hermann Langke

[disc I]
01. Infected Nation
02. Now Demolition
03. Nosophoros
04. Genocide
05. Plague To End All Plagues
06. Devoid Of Thought
07. Time No More
08. Metamorphosis
09. Hundred Wrathful Deities
10. My Parasite [limited edition bonus]

[disc II: bonus]
11. Cemetary Gates [Pantera cover]

[Live in the studio]
12. Infected Nation
13. We Who Are About To Die
14. Thrasher
15. Now Demolition
16. Nosophoros
17. Time No More
18. Bathe In Blood
19. Enter The Grave

[: at the Hammerfest Festival 2009]
20. Armoured Assault
21. Man Against Machine
22. Now Demolition
23. Thrasher
24. Enter The Grave
25. Schizophrenia

[limited edition DVD]

+ The DVD To End All DVDs

Great Britain is the birthplace of Heavy Metal. It was Black Sabbath who with their doom-laden riffs ushered in the age of Heavy Metal. They were the founders of a movement which is in its fourth decade now. The British Isles have been home to many of Metal's greatest bands and Metal would be lacking in luster without them. However from the 90's onwards Metal seemed to be in a downward spiral in Britain. During that time bands like Oasis, The Verve, etc., were everywhere and they were not even Metal. The Darkness emerged as the closest thing to Led Zeppelin but they were swallowed by their new-found fame. I have to admit that I have not heard much of modern Metal bands from Britain, but there is one band that has caught my eye and that band, which I believe is the future of British Metal, is Evile. But, on the contrary, the album about which I am going to write is not quite the kind of savior that I expected.

Infected Nations is the second album by British thrashers Evile and was released in 2009. The album opens with the title track "Infected Nations" and what an opening riff it has got! I am out of words to describe the riff and what I love about the song is the crescendo of the menacingly heavy guitars that slowly emerges from the background! "Now Demolition," as the title suggests, should have been a bonecrusher but the end result is anything but, at least I feel so, and the only good thing about the song is its superb guitar solo. "Nosphoros" is just the kind of song to turn a tame audience of Metalheads into a frenzied bunch of people hungry for each other's blood and bone (but, then again, a Metal crowd is never a tame one!). "Metamorphosis" has an introductory riff which may make you feel like that it's more of a Doom Metal than a Thrash metal song, but you have got to listen to the whole song to find about the truth! "Hundred Wrathful Deities," though an instrumental, is, in my opinion, the best song in this pretty average album. The rest of the record hovers between the mediocre and the not-so mediocre.

I, in my restless excitement, initially thought very highly of this album. But after listening to the entire album, I feel that my excitement was baseless and unfounded. I am wiser now, though. One shouldn't be hasty in judging something and that's a lesson that I have learned. But, don't let my internal assessment put you off. This album has its genius moments. At least give it a listen once. I have earlier said that Evile is the future of British Metal and I won't retract from it. I believe their next album will make amends for it.