Modern Heavy Rock powerhouse Pop Evil will release their 8th studio album “What Remains” on March 21, 2025 via MNRK Heavy. To celebrate the event, the band revealed the official lyric video for the single “Zero To None,” available through the YouTube player below:
Passion. Dedication. Fortitude. Leigh Kakaty is the embodiment of these three qualities, and for good measure, too. For two decades, he has needed to mine the deepest of reserves in order to drag Pop Evil up from the blue-collar grassroots of the band’s local Michigan scene to stand proud at the top of the modern rock game. Soaring successes, bitter defeats… Leigh Kakaty has stood face-to-face with it all along the way. Leigh Kakaty has survived it all.
“What Remains,” the band’s eighth full-length album, is the culmination and story of that journey, laid bare like never before. Sonically and thematically Pop Evil’s heaviest ever offering, What Remains is a thundering collection of arena-ready modern rock and metal hits in which Kakaty opens heart, mind and soul – pulling no punches and taking no prisoners in doing so.
“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 explains. “What Remains is an introspective collection of chapters in my journey, and what I’ve been through to reach where I and Pop Evil is today. It’s everything I’ve never known how or felt able to say – until now.”
“What Remains” finds Pop Evil – completed by guitarists Dave Grahs and Nick Fuelling, bassist Joey “Chicago” Walser, and newly minted drummer Blake Allison – in career-best form. The album is a riotous explosion of life-affirming noise; a vortex of scything riffs and gut-punch drum beats that regularly give way to Pop Evil’s hallmark anthemic choruses. The 10 tracks occupy territory that will be at once immediately familiar to the Pop Evil family, but that has been refreshed and re-energized with help from production from longtime collaborator Drew Fulk (Disturbed, Knocked Loose), the aforementioned Quistad, plus Zach Jones (Fever 333, Maggie Lindemann) and KJ Strock (Ice Nine Kills, Motionless In White), and the Sparrow Sound team of Joe McQueen and Spiritbox bassist Josh Gilbert (Bad Wolves, As I Lay Dying).
“What Remains” is the culmination of everything Leigh Kakaty has fought for his entire life. It’s the dismantling of the armor he has adorned to survive the journey along the way. It’s the reckoning with the man he was yesterday, the man he has become today, and the man he strives to be tomorrow. It is at once the complete Pop Evil story writ large, and its definitive release.
Purchase the album on Bandcamp: https://popevil.bandcamp.com/album/what-remains
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