Photos by Natalie Mason – Pop Evil is an American rock band that was formed in North Muskegon, Michigan, in 2001 by Leigh Kakaty. The band’s roots reside in TenFive, a group formed in the late-1990s by Kakaty and guitarist Jason Reed. Pop Evil won the Radio Contraband Rock Radio Award for “Song of the Year” for “Trenches” in 2013.
On April 22, 2022, the band released the single “Eye of the Storm” with an accompanying music video, along with a remix of the song titled “Into the Vortex”, released July 15th, 2022.
the band released a collaboration song with ZILLION on July 29, 2022, titled “War Inside of Me”, which was to be featured on ZILLION’s debut EP, Radio Face, followed by the release of a live recording of “Eye of the Storm” from Toronto, ON on August 26th, 2022. A month later, on September 30th, a second single following “Eye of the Storm”, titled “Paranoid (Crash & Burn)” was released, later receiving a music video which was released on December 9th, 2022 and was used to announce their upcoming album, Skeletons, releasing March 17th, 2023.
Pop Evil were meant to play a European tour, starting in Glasgow on November 2nd, 2022, however the tour has been postponed to May 2023. On January 13th, 2023, the band released a third single for Skeletons, titled “Dead Reckoning”, the song featured Ryan Kirby, vocalist of American metalcore band Fit for a King and was released along with an accompanying visualizer.
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