Metal-Rules has issued an interview with Ol Drake of British thrash metal band EVILE. Ol talks about the band's forthcoming new album, Five Serpent's Teeth, remembers ex-bassist Mike Alexander and more. An excerpt follows:

Q: Your upcoming album, Five Serpent's Teeth, is your third full-length release. What makes this album stand out from the first two?

A: "We've changed our approach to how we write the music on this one. I think we wanted to avoid skating around the point in songs and just get straight to it. Do we have a good riff? Yes; so let's just play it. A few confusing time signatures; Just very direct and in your face. I feel we've matured a lot on this album and it is personally my favorite of the three because of it."

Read the full interview at this location.

Evile will release Five Serpent's Teeth on September 26th via Earache Records. The album was once again recorded with producer Russ Russell (NAPALM DEATH, DIMMU BORGIR) at Parlour Studios in Kettering, UK.

Evile vocalist and rhythm guitarist Matt Drake discusses the new album cover: "So here it is, the artwork for Five Serpent's Teeth. As is always the case with Evile, we try and do things a bit differently from what we've done before, so we fancied something a bit more design-orientated this time around. It's been done by a great artist by the name of Gustavo Sazes and he really came through for us as we were struggling to find something that visually accompanied the music, so hats off to the man! Make what you will of any meaning you think the cover may hold, much the same as you will be able to do with the lyrical content of the album; we know what it means to us, so enjoy!"

View the album cover below:

Ol Drake recently revealed the tracklisting for the new album: "Here's the full tracklist for our new album, Five Serpent's Teeth. There's such diversity through this album that I simply can't wait for people to hear these tracks. We spent a long time in the studio and at home figuring out the best order we could place these tracks in to flow perfectly through the album. The tracks go from the stomping heaviness of 'Cult', to the eeriness/melancholy of 'In Memoriam', to the pure insanity of 'Descent Into Madness'. You may have already hear 'Eternal Empire' (below), and if you were at Download festival last weekend and you came to see us, you heard 'Cult'."

Five Serpent's Teeth tracklisting:

'Five Serpent's Teeth'

'In Dreams Of Terror'

'Cult'

'Eternal Empire'

'Xaraya'

'Origin Of Oblivion'

'Centurion'

'In Memoriam'

'Descent Into Madness'

'Long Live New Flesh'

Upcoming Evile live dates:

July

27 - Bladel, Netherlands - Totaalfestival

August

13 - Oulu, Finland - Jalometalli Festival