M-Pire of Evil
| M: Pire of Evil | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Newcastle upon Tyne , England |
| Genre (s) | Thrash metal |
| founding | 2010 as Prime Evil |
| Current occupation | |
| Jeffrey "Mantas" Dunn | |
| Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan | |
| Marc "JXN" Jackson | |
| former members | |
Drums |
Anton "Antton" Lant |
Drums (live) |
Francesco Frullo La Rosa |
M-Pire of Evil (often also spelled M: Pire of Evil or Mpire of Evil ) is an English thrash metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne , which was founded in 2010 under the name Prime Evil .
history
After guitarist Jeffrey "Mantas" Dunn and drummer Anton "Antton" Lant had previously been active at Venom , they both got in touch again in 2010 after Lant joined Dunn's band Dryll as a drummer. Shortly afterwards they both decided to start a new band project. With the addition of bassist and singer Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan, who had also previously worked with both of them at Venom, the line-up was completed. Fans chose a name for this project, which ended up being Prime Evil, named after the Venom album of the same name that featured Dunn and Dolan. However, since there was already a band with the same name, the name was changed to M-Pire of Evil. The EP Creatures of the Black followed at the end of 2011, followed by the debut album Hell to the Holy at the beginning of 2012 . Before the band went on tour, Lant left the band and was replaced by Marc "JXN" Jackson. This was followed by a tour of North America . In 2013 the album Crucified and the single Demone / Taking It All were released . In 2014 the band released their first live album, on which the group can be heard at a concert in France , as well as the split release Double Jeopardy , which contained a re-recorded version of the Venom song Manitou . The Italian Francesco Frullo La Rosa was the drummer at concerts in Europe and Asia .
The last concert for the time being was given by M-Pire of Evil on October 3rd, 2015 in Fismes, France . Currently (2017) the band members Dunn and Dolan along with former Venom drummer Anthony "Abaddon" Bray under the names Venom Inc. active.
style
According to Matt Reifschneider from metal-observer.com , the band plays raw Thrash Metal on Crucified . However, apart from the last two songs, the album only consists of Venom cover versions, so that the album can almost be seen as a best-of album. Robert Müller described the music on the album as Thrash Metal of the early 1990s with slight punk influences.
Discography
- Creatures of the Black (EP, 2011, Scarlet Records )
- Hell to the Holy (Album, 2012, Scarlet Records)
- Demone (EP, 2013, Night of the Vinyl Dead Records )
- Crucified (album, 2013, Mausoleum Records )
- Double Jeopardy (split with Grazed, 2014, self-published)
- M: Pire of Evil Live (Live album, 2014, self-published)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ M: Pire of Evil. mpireofevil.tripod.com, accessed September 13, 2014 .
- ↑ M: Pire of Evil. mpireofevil.tripod.com, accessed October 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Matt Reifschneider: Mpire Of Evil - Crucified. metal-observer.com, accessed September 12, 2014 .
- ^ Robert Müller: M-Pire of Evil . Crucified. In: Metal Hammer . September 2013, p. 103 .