Evil Island Announces Debut Album Featuring Guy Picciotto, Alexis Krauss, and More; Shares New Song "Animal"

Evil Island , the new band featuring Johnny Whitney, Cody Votolato and Mark Gajadhar of The Blood Brothers and Autry Fulbright II, formerly of OFF! and …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead , released their debut single, “Tiger Baby,” back in April, and now they’ve announced their debut album. Terraform the Afterlife is due out on August 14 via Blowed Out Records.

The album was produced by Ross Robinson, and features Guy Picciotto of Fugazi  who is singing on a record for the first time since the final Fugazi album, 2001’s The Argument . The album also features contributions from Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells , Michael Gatto of XCOMM , Whitney, Votolato and Gajadhar’s Blood Brothers bandmate Jordan Billie. See the cover art and tracklist below.

Whitney says:

> Evil Island was born out of the firestorm of creative energy that Cody, Mark and I felt when The Blood Brothers reunion tour ended in 2024. My brain was on fire, I was gripped with a kind of mania. I had so many ideas rattling around in my skull that if I didn’t make something new with my friends, the psychic damage probably would’ve manifested as some exotic form of cancer. I knew our story wasn’t over. More importantly, I knew our particular strain of feral pop hardcore felt more necessary than ever given that the world is boiling in bullshit. So we wrote eleven songs, brought Ross Robinson into the fold, then Autry joined the band, and suddenly everything locked into place. With Terraform the Afterlife , we let Ross completely off the leash. What was supposed to be a two-week recording session turned into a five-month descent into something far bigger than we imagined. We built a musical world that’s dazzling, violent, joyful, ugly, melodic, brutal and somehow still coherent. We put every drop of ourselves into this record. Terraform the Afterlife is the most creatively gratifying thing I’ve ever been part of, these songs will be fucked into my skull forever.

On how he came to contribute to the album, Picciotto says:

> Last November I got a text from Cody Votolato checking in and asking to talk on the phone. I had worked as a producer with Cody and his Blood Brothers compatriots on their last album Young Machetes and those guys had become some of the dearest people in the world to me. The experience of making that record was such a blast – both hilarious in terms of humor and hi-jinx but also hugely revitalizing to me in terms of getting to watch their musicality, their creativity and their camaraderie up close. I had been blown away by their reunion shows the year before and had thought they were even better than ever so I was expecting Cody to maybe drop news of more shows in the offing. I certainly wasn’t expecting him to drop the bomb that he, Johnny and Mark had formed a new band with Autry and that they were already fully in deep tracking an album with Ross Robinson back in the producer saddle with them. I was even more surprised when Cody asked if I would be up for singing back-ups on one of the tracks. Given that my general attitude vis-a-vis the Blood Brothers is that I would take a bullet for any of them, I felt like I had to at least give it a shot despite not having sung on a recording since the last Fugazi album THE ARGUMENT .

They’ve shared a new single, “Animal,” which Whitney says “felt enormous almost immediately. It’s the only song we’ve ever written that sounds authentically like us while also sounding like it could be blasted through the PA at a football stadium. Our pitch for the music video was basically, ‘What if ISIS started making TikTok dance videos?’ I don’t know if we achieved that, but I did get to smash a head with a sledgehammer, which feels like a good sign.”

Evil Island have also expanded their live lineup with the addition of Todd Weinstock (formerly of Glassjaw ) on second guitar. They don’t have any shows lined up at the moment, but stay tuned.

EVIL ISLAND – TERRAFORM THE AFTERLIFE TRACKLIST

1. Melted Heart (ft. Alexis Krauss)

2. Termantrixx (ft. Michael Gatto)

3. Animal

4. Tiger Baby

5. T-Hexx (ft. Guy Picciotto)

6. Evil Island Death Cult National Anthem

7. Grow Spikes

8. I Bought A Spell (ft. Jordan Blilie)

9. No Good

10. Moonlight Doomlight

11. Blinding Rage

12. King Death

13. Suicide By Cop

_Originally reported by [Brooklyn Vegan](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/evil-island-mems-blood-brothers-off-announce-debut-lp-ft-fugazis-guy-picciotto-share-animal/)._