Review by David Boyden

I was fortunate enough to become acquainted with the band Eavil in the live setting at Big Horse Lounge
during the summer of 2006. Their performance was rich in audio and visual stimulation. They projected eerie
black and white images as they catapulted the listener into dimensions beyond.

Therefore, I was quite excited to delve into their new release Phantasmic Seam. The cover art sets the
otherworldly tone of the music quite nicely. The ghostly doll and her penetrating gaze are chilling and
haunting. The new album opens with the lush, atmospheric seething of primordial streams. The vocals
throughout this project could be tortured souls slithering forth from Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu. The delicious
electronic fantasias to come only whet the appetite for more.

The dark pulsations of Archer Station reverberate like the sinister images of Dario Argento. Dark, stormy
nights; mysterious presences lurking in the shadows; the malevolent din of chaos. The track Lovelyes gives
one the impression of being submerged in otherworldly oceans alive with vibrating, spectral creatures.

The mind-expanding audio sojourn that is Phantasmic Seam made me feel as if I was being compressed to
withstand the gravitational fury of the film Phantasm’s alien landscapes. Be sure to visit Eavil at www.
myspace.com/eavil to become immersed in their swirling realm of cacophonous beauty.

Rhythmic and nightmarish, Eavil leave a lasting impression of tiny, cackling spiders coating one’s body. The
words of the character Alex in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange sum up Eavil’s new album: “Oh, it was
gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh…a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing
in a spaceship…”