Evile Announce New Bassist
Evile announce their new bassist with an incredibly heart-felt statement.
Evile have announced that UK bassist Joel Graham will be the new bassist after the passing of Mike Alexander.
The band’s statement reads: “This has been one of the most bizarre and surreal tasks we’ve ever had to undertake. It isn’t like Mike has decided to leave the band and we’re simply finding a new bass player, he was taken from us, and we were forced to replace him. In effect we had to look for a new Mike, but that would never happen. He was one of a kind, and we’ll never forget him.
“We had hundreds upon hundreds of emails from bass players from around the world (though we can only realistically have a bassist from the UK), and we want to thank everyone for taking the time out to contact us, and the people who came to jam with us. We only had a certain amount of time to actually audition/jam with bass players before the upcoming tours, to get time in for rehearsing the songs, getting visas sorted etc.
“Our new bass player goes by the name Joel Graham. He’s an excellent, experienced bass player, and a really nice guy. We’d all appreciate it if you gave him a warm welcome to the band, as this must be a bizarre situation for him to be in also. We’ll be getting some photos taken with him soon so you can see us with Joel, we just wanted to get the news out there that we have a new bassist, and that we thank each and every person for auditioning. Mike would be honoured at the amount of respect and admiration you expressed to us through contacting us.”
Graham’s first duty as Evile’s new bassist will be to head out on their UK your in January. Show your support for these boys, you know they deserve it. Get Evile tickets here!
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What the hell? Joel Graham is not really a metal bassist, is he? Whatever, we’ll see how he’ll do
Oh yeah, 1st ^^
Good luck Joel, welcome to Evile.
RIP Mike.
A happy end to a sad story.
Thanks for not throwing in the towel, looking forward to the gig.
Good luck lads. I’ll try and get to a show with the boys once me leg’s sorted. Stay sharp!
good to see theyre making progress,
although i wouldnt like to be in the position of filling mikes shoes
id crap myself,
lets hope joel does him justice
good luck Joel and welcome to the Evile family.
So sad to hear of Mike’s passing.Great to see you are contining during this hard time.Keep it up,Evile rules!
Welcome to the Evile family Joel! I hope they find the success they deserve after such a tragedy. See you guys in January! RIP Mike
Welcome Joel
I’m glad you guys didn’t give up and found a bassist you liked
Wish you guys were playing in Norwich though as I missed not seeing you for the Amon Amarth tour and it would’ve been great to see you
I’m fuckin delighted ye decided to continue Evile. Best of luck with them Joel. RIP Mike. \m/
Good luck Joel.
congrats joel so delighted the bad ass metal machine that is EVILE is continuing on RIP Mike \m/ cant wait for the new tour and maybe catch ya at hammerfest????? fingers crossed!!!
Good luck dude, see you on the tour
Good luck Joel, will see you on the london leg of the tour. ALL HAIL EVILE
this is awesome. i hope he really fits in. RIP Mike. this is kinda like when metallica lost cliff but i hope Joel wont get hazed like Jason. GREAT FUCKING BAND!
Awesome choice! He’s very talented! Congrats!
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Joel’s an awesome bassist – You’ve obviously not seen RTA Jop!!!!
Like Jason Newstead taking over from Cliff Burton, he’s got huge shoes to fill.
Good luck Joel and Rip Mike