Monday, December 15, 2008

EVILE GUITARIST OL DRAKE'S JAW IN ALL OF ITS BUSTED, LACERATED GLORY

The travails of EVILE guitarist, Ol Drake and his jaw injury have been
well documented. After suffering a random blackout whilst walking on
the street, Ol fell face first into the pavement. Since then he has
suffered from the effects of a broken jaw, having to correct it by
wiring it shut for 2 weeks. In addition, the bottom of Ol's jaw was
severely lacerated during the incident.

Here for the first time is a picture of what the gash at the bottom of
Ol's jaw looks like (careful, it's not for the squeamish): http://earache.com/public/olgash.jpg

Ol had previously described the incident at great length through a
blog post on EVILE's MySpace page:

"Outside the Waterfront in Rotterdam (which is literally AT the water
front), I started to get blurred vision. Next thing I knew i'm being
woken up by two of the Satyricon guys. I just thought, "oh shit, what
happened?". I couldn't feel my jaw, so I didn't notice anything at
first. If i was any nearer the water; bye bye.

There was a big pool of blood under where my head had been, so I
wondered where it came from. One of the guys said my teeth were
covered in blood so its probably a broken tooth. I checked my teeth
and found one quite out of alignment and thought "woo".

Then I felt my beard (which probably cushioned the blow making this
alot less serious) was drenched in blood. Other than this looking very
cool, I wondered where it came from. So i stick my fingers into my
beard, then i'm suddenly touching my jaw bone. As in....touching the
actual bone, and other squishy Peter Jackson-esque things. I look down
at my fingers and they're dark red, drenched in blood. Then I realised
I might be in trouble.

We woke Matt up (who simeltaneously having a dream that i'd fallen off
something??) and called an ambulance. I was asked if i was OK again,
and I noticed my teeth were making new friends with teeth they'd never
met before. Ie, my jaw was in the totally wrong place. I felt my face
and there was a huge jaw bone on one side, and a gap on the other."

Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/evileuk

EVILE's ENTER THE GRAVE redux edition is out now worldwide and is
available at all good music retailers, or can be purchased from the
EARACHE RECORDS European Webstore at http://earacheshop.com/store/evile.html
and the EARACHE U.S. Webstore at http://www.earachestore.com/store/product360.html

Check out EVILE's first ever music video for the song "Thrasher" at
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=924bRfmiJ20

For press opportunities and further information, please contact:

Anthony Guzzardo
North American Press Manager
Earache Records
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Long Island City, NY 11101
Phone - 718-786-1707
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