Evil Island have announced their debut album, Terraform The Afterlife, arriving on 14 August 2026 via Blowed Out Records, and shared their second single, ‘Animal’, alongside an unhinged new music video.
The band brings together The Blood Brothers members Johnny Whitney, Cody Votolato and Mark Gajadhar with Autry Fulbright of OFF! and …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, plus Glassjaw’s Todd Weinstock joining the live lineup on second guitar. It grew directly out of the creative surge that followed The Blood Brothers’ 2024 reunion run. As Whitney puts it, “I knew our story wasn’t over. More importantly, I knew our particular strain of feral pop hardcore felt more necessary than ever.”
Produced by Ross Robinson, Terraform The Afterlife spans thirteen tracks and carries a remarkable cast of guest vocalists, including Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells, Michael Gatto of XCOMM, Jordan Blilie of The Blood Brothers and, most strikingly, Fugazi‘s Guy Picciotto, marking his first recorded vocal performance since Fugazi’s 2002 album The Argument. Picciotto, who produced The Blood Brothers’ 2006 record Young Machetes, was pulled back into the studio by a call from Votolato. “Given that my general attitude vis-à-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,” he says.
‘Animal’ sets the tone. Whitney calls it “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.” Its video drops the band into the desert as leaders of a cult-like gathering that curdles from hypnotic ritual into hallucinatory violence.
What began as a planned two-week session with Robinson stretched into a five-month odyssey. The record balances melody and abrasion, beauty and ugliness, joy and destruction into a singular world. Early signs are promising too, with debut single ‘Tiger Baby’ selling out its 300 hand-signed 7-inch pressing in under six hours.
