In a brand new interview with Radioactive MikeZ, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM program “Wired In The Empire”, POP EVIL frontman Leigh Kakaty was requested which METALLICA album he thinks is healthier, “Trip The Lightning” or “Grasp Of Puppets”. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Man, how do you decide between these two. I could not decide, man. As quickly as I decide one, then I am gonna name you again later and be, like, ‘No, no. I select the opposite one. I select the opposite one.’
“Truly, I’ve simply been enjoying lots of the METALLICA pinball these days. So I feel I’ve listened to extra of the brand new album, to be trustworthy,” he continued. “‘Trigger the youngsters round me are all discovering METALLICA for the primary time — nieces and nephews — so that they’re all enjoying the newer METALLICA stuff, to be trustworthy.
“And once more, it is onerous to select old-school METALLICA, ‘trigger I consider the place my life was in these instances. However [I’d] in all probability [pick] ‘Grasp Of Puppets’, man — I might in all probability give it the ‘Stranger Issues’ benefit. I am a ‘Stranger Issues’ fan too, so I might in all probability give it to ‘Grasp Of Puppets’.
“However, yeah, it is powerful, although,” Leigh added. “I imply, however even telling you that, I am, like, ‘I should not have stated that. I like ‘Trip The Lightning’ too, man.’ However there’s so many. I imply, METALLICA is nearly not a good query. They’re so iconic. It is, like, what Bible verse do you want? Are you want Jesus? Do you imagine in heaven and hell? I do not even know — how do you reply to that? They’re so iconic they usually’re so massive that everybody’s acquired a narrative about METALLICA, for certain.
“However ‘Grasp Of Puppets’ — we’re gonna go along with it, although. I’ve gotta decide one thing. I am unable to cop out.”
POP EVIL‘s eighth album, “What Stays”, was launched on March 21 by way of MNRK. Leigh informed Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station concerning the effort: “We really feel prefer it’s one in every of our favourite albums that we have launched to this point. Lots of private therapeutic for me, with simply stuff I buried, I feel, with my profession and the place we have been all these years. So lastly listening to my soul, letting that therapeutic come out on this file, it is simply particular. And simply sort of desirous to problem folks to be optimistic.
“When you concentrate on the darkest time in somebody’s life, you will have a selection — you wanna keep depressed, you wanna keep in that darkish place otherwise you wanna stroll ahead and attempt to be higher on daily basis?” he continued. “So this album comes from a darkish place. However definitely making an attempt to see the sunshine on the finish of the tunnel, making an attempt to nonetheless be optimistic and encourage folks to be higher, beginning with ourselves, is certainly [something] that rings outstanding on this album. So [I’m] undoubtedly enthusiastic about getting it on the market and eventually a possibility for our followers to begin making it their very own. So I am stoked about it.”
POP EVIL first rose to worldwide prominence with debut album “Lipstick On The Mirror”, that includes RIAA-certified-gold single “100 In A 55”. After Kakaty famously tore up the band’s main label contract onstage, POP EVIL signed with MNRK Heavy (previously eOne Music). 2011’s “Struggle Of Angels” debuted within the High 10 of the Rock Albums chart and produced three High 10 singles.
The band’s 2013 album “Onyx” put them within the High 40 of the Billboard 200 for the primary time and boasted three consecutive No. 1 rock songs, two RIAA gold singles, and one platinum single “Torn To Items”. POP EVIL‘s subsequent launch, “Up”, was the No. 1 Unbiased Album in America and made it to No. 25 on the Billboard 200. It featured a number of High 5 rock songs and a chart-topper with “Footsteps”, which additionally went gold.
POP EVIL‘s 2018 self-titled set included the No. 1 hit and certified-gold single “Waking Lions” and two different High 10 hits. 2020’s “Versatile”, in the meantime, scored two No. 1 rock songs: “Breathe Once more” and “Survivor”. In 2023, the band launched its seventh studio album “Skeletons”, which spawned their eighth and ninth No. 1 singles: “Eye Of The Storm” and “Skeletons”.
