Evile’s name has long been a kitemark of quality thrash. The Huddersfield quartet were part of that burst of bands around the late ’00s credited with ushering in speed for a new generation (alongside the likes of Municipal Waste, Gama Bomb and Toxic Holocaust) and giving the whole thing a youthful kick up the arse. Their last album, 2021’s excellent Hell’s Unleashed, their first with guitar whiz Ol Drake on vocals following the departure of his brother Matt, actually found them only getting faster with age. The Unknown is a markedly different beast, and brilliantly so. In no rush to get where it’s going, instead it’s built on more heavy-footed tempos, chugs, and a powerful sense of dread. Were one to reach for a comparison to thrash peers, it would be t...