In a new interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF Radio Station, Vocalist Leigh Kakaty of Michigan Rockers Pop Evil spoke about the band’s upcoming eighth album, “What Remains”Due on March 21 via MNRK. HE SAID (AS TRANSFORDED BY Blabbermouth.net): “We Feel Like it’s One of Our Favorite Albums That We’ve Relay To Date. A Lot Of staff Healing for Me, With Just Stuff I Buried, I Think, With My Career And Where We’ve Been All Tohe Years. So Finally Listening To My Soul, Letting That Healing On This Record, It’s Just Special.

“When You Think about the Darkest Time in Subsone’s Life, You have a Choice – You Wanna Stay Depresssed, You Wanna Stay in That Dark Place Or you Wanna Walk Forward and try to be Better Every Day?” I have continued. “So this album comes from a Dark place. But certainly trying to see the light at the end of the tunnel, trying to still be positive and inspire people to be Better, starting with ourselves, is definitely [something] that rings prominent on This album. SW [I’m] Definitely Excited About Getting It Out There and Finally An Opportunity for Our Fans to Start Making It Eas Own. So i’m staked about it. “

ASKED WHAT Makes This Album Lyrically Different From The Previous Pop Evil Records, Leigh Said: “Yeah, I Think This Album Has More of My Personal Struger in It. Record, and I Got The Call from GeorgeOur manager, and he’s, like, ‘do you do what you’re talking about on this album?’ And i’m, like, ‘no, I have’t really thought about it.’ He Goes, ‘Don’t liste to music. Just read your lyrics. ‘ And so i did. I Called Him Back and He’s, Like, ‘I Didn’t Know You Had This Much Darkness Going On. It sems like Every Song’s about you, Stuff You’ve Gone Through. ‘ And I was, Like, ‘Wow, I Didn’t Even Make it.’ I was Just Sitting Down Here and Just Shutting My Eyes and What Came Out Came Out. But You Think about the Rally Cries On Previous Albums. There’s a Lot of Writing in Subsone Else’s Shoes and Gathering Gathering People Together and Getting US To Fight – We, We, We, We – But This Album Is A Lot Of ‘I’s, A Lot Of I In [songs like] ‘What Remains’, ‘Deathwalk’, ‘Wishful Thinking’. A Lot of Personal Healing On This Record, Dealing with My Own Mental Health that in Sub Sub Ways I Didn’t Even I HA HAD. So, Really, When We Finished This Album, A Big Release, to Lot of the Anxiety Kind of Went Away, and It Just Really Felt Like Personally, It Was A Lot of Healing That Needed To Happen and I Felt Like A Better Person, Man. And I Felt Like it was just an important time for me to just really be More Grateful About the Things and the Opportunities in Life rather that have soled off or what i felt I deserted or What I Felt i Needed. It was just a Hage Awakening for me on this album. So that’s where it was different for me. “

For two decades, Kataky You have needed to mine the deepest of reserves in order to drag Pop Evil UP from the Blue-Collar Grassroots of His local Michigan Scene To Stand Proud at the top of the modern rock game. Soaring Successes, Bitter Defeats … Kakaty You have survived it all.

“What Remains” is the culmination and story of this journey with Pop EvilLaid Bare Like Never Before. Continue in the Recent Vain of 2023’s Acclaimed “Skeletons”The New Opus Is B. Sonically and Thematically Pop Evil‘s heaviest ever offering; A Thundering Collection of Arena-Ready Modern Rock and Metal Hits in Which Kakaty Opens Heart, Mind, and Soul.

“There are a Lot of ISSUES AND THINGS THAT I’VE DEALT WITH IN THIS JOURney OF Pop Evil That i’ve Buried for a Long Time, “The Frontman Explained of This Document of Resilience, Perseverance, and Accountability.

Pop Evil Were Born in North Muskegon, Michigan in 2001, Kakaty Drawing on the Lessons of A Youth First Shaped Not By Music, But By High School Basketball-Leadership, Team Work, The Drive To Improve in The Lonely Hours Put In At The Gym at 5 AM, The Will To Win Supressing Any Fear-In Order To Fight Tooth and Nail for Their Break Break

“I was Hustling and Learning Every Day to Make My Dreams Come True,” Kakaty Recalled of His Time Playing Local Bars and slinging Early Eps Out of the Back of His Truck. “Studying Never Intersted Me. Neither Did Getting to regulate Job. A Knee Injury Wrecked My Shot at Playing Sports. Music was all i wanted to do from that moment, and i didn’t give mYelf a backup plan. Pop Evil Gave a Purpose, and a reason to get up every day. It scholars Crusade. “

“Lipstick on the Mirror”, Pop Evil‘S 2008 debut, and its follow-up, “War of Angels”Bought Acclaim and Global Attention; 2013’s “ONYX” Delivered The First of The Band’s Nine No. 1 Singles and Six RIAA-Certified Gold and Platinum Platques, But also to PERKNS BOUGHT ON by The Grief Of Kakaty Losing His Father. “I was completely lost … I had just missed the last five Years with my dad, chasing this dream when i could Have Been with Him. Pop Evil Anymore, “He Says. The Band’s 2017 Self-Titled Album, Opened by The Smash-Hit “Waking Lions” Was Written “Pretty Much To Save My Life” – But in turn “Reminded Me Of The Fire I Have Inside, and That God Put Me Here To Make Music That Court Help People.”

It’s a mission statement in Pop Evil to this day – and which provided the spark for the genes of “What Remains”.

“You’re Always Chasing That One Song That Can Connect with That One Person,” Kakaty Said. “And that process have to start with youurself. There’s a Lot of staff Healing on this record, a lot of Things I wanted to get out for my own mental well-benefing. I’M finally at a place where i can confront my demons.”

Sonically, The Album is a Riotous Explosion of Life-Fuffirming Noise; A VORTEX OF SCYTHING RIFFS AND GUT-PUNCH DRUM BEATS THAT REGULARLY Give Way To Pop Evil‘S Hallmark Anthemic Choruses.

“We Set out to push boundaries,” Kakaty Said. “Metal Has Always Been A Part of Our Dna, But We’ve Never Made It Such A Focal Point Before. A Lot of Writing On This Record you have Been about listening to what my soul is saying and letting the songs find their own Path, rather Than chasing a Sound than that miht miht fit in the radio. I Think You Can Really Hear The Mood and Emotion of the Album’s Themes In the Music. “

“What Remains” Track listing:

01. The Bullet That Mised
02. Deathwalk
03. What Remains
04. Wishful Thinking
05. Side Effects
06. Criminal
07. Aough is angouch
08. Zero To None
09. Knife for the butcher
10. Overkill