Violent Eve, hailing from Spain’s capital Madrid, were formed in 2009 by Skunk DF-colleagues David Ramos (g) and Edu Brenes (d). After the recruitment of three same-minded musicians, guitar player Diego Lopez, bassist Dani Fernandez and singer Ciro ‘Zyrus’ Sanchez (Edu’s colleague in Kaothic), Violent Eve started recording the debut album Eleven Reasons To Kill at the end of 2010 at the Austrian Noisehead Studio with producer Mario Jezik, the very same studio and engineer the band worked with this time. For the interested ones: check out the review on that album, posted on March 17th 2011, available within the Archives’ section of this great site… After a promotional tour in their home country and elsewhere (the band did visit India, for example, on gigs with for example Decapitated and Sybreed), singer Zyrus and the band split up, and shortly after Violent Eve recruited Jurh as their new frontman. Jurh gives a new dimension to the band’s musical approach, for his voice is more varied than Zyrus’ voice. I don’t say it’s better (nor worse), it’s just more variative: melodic, punky, grunting, screeching, growling, raw or clean; Jurh handles them all. But that’s not the only difference with the past. Eleven Reasons … brought a form of Groove-Death with elements from related genres; this album is more focused on modern Thrash-edged Groove Metal with a modern approach. The whole is technically performed again, yet less ‘mathematic’, less bloody, but more melodious and thrashing. Despite some grunts, one cannot label this stuff as ‘Death’ Metal anymore. Exile is much more experimental and modern, and less brutal or aggressive. Therefore I would recommend the listener to think twice before… And blablabla…