Evile Tear Up The US Charts With Their Dimebag Darrell Tribute
/ News / 02/03/2010 13:10pm
Evile are storming the US charts at the current time with their cover of the Pantera classic, ‘Cemetary Gates’, originally recorded for Metal Hammer’s ‘Dimebag Darrell’ tribute CD.
Evile currently stand at number 3 on Sirius XM Satellite Radio’s Liquid Metal chart in the states with their cover of ‘Cemetary Gates’. Originally recorded as a tribute to Dimebag Darrell, the track was also the last Evile track to feature Evile bassist Mike Alexander before his tragic passing.
It’s fitting that this track should be doing superbly in the US metal charts, providing a fitting tribute to two of metal’s most beloved fallen heroes.
Metal Hammer extends our congratulations to the British thrashers on a job well done.
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Awesome band, Awesome bassist, Awesome tribute… RIP both…
no one in the world deserves success more than Evile
evile is one of the best alive bands.. just blow every one so fuckin’ hard.! no one will say bad thinks. i agrre with Seth up here
I really hope they get the success they deserve!
RIP Mike and RIP Dime. \m/
Awesome cover, these guys deserve all the success they get.
shit band..sad about bass player..but a truly shit unoriginal band..just like trivium
Totally agree with seth and SIKKS66, awesome band and such a great tribute to two of the finest men in the genre! I’m so happy for Evile’s success and I hope that there is more to come!
Awesome song, awesome cover, awesome tribute to two awesome musicians
Their cover sounds almost identical to the original with the exception of some average-at-best vocals. They did nothing original with it at all. What’s the point?
I love Evile and cemetery gates but their cover was just… a cover, nothing special.
I don’t mean to sound in any way heartless but comparing Mike to Dimebag and saying “a fitting tribute to two of metal’s most beloved fallen heroes.” is more than a little OTT is it not? If he’d not died I highly doubt anyone would be kissing their arses so much. Yes it is very sad that he passed away but had he honestly done much for music? It was an early stage and yes possibly something could of come of it over the next 10 years but would they have the same coverage now had he not died? Did he make an impact on loads of peoples lives and inspire them to play bass or was he the bassist in a Metallica/Slayer style band and honestly nothing revolutionary? To me it just stinks of the usual media bullshit, cashing in on someone elses misfortune.
As I say I don’t mean this to sound horrible in anyway, I know someone very close to Evile, they work hard and yes they deserve a level of success but it just seems all blown out of proportion after he died. Mostly by the media.
No offence to the band but the “Sirius XM Satellite Radio’s Liquid Metal chart” (and No3 at that). Hardly groundbreaking news.
whenever anyone dies it’s blown out of proportion. if dimebag hadnt have died im sure hed be doing jack all right now and noone would give two shits (no offense). at the same time it’s nice to see that britain may actually support a british band, something which doesnt really happen, and evile might become a seriously big band which I think they have the potential to be.