Former Evile Guitarist Ol Drake Accepts Position as a “Spaceship Janitor”

Guitarist Ol Drake may have left Evile, but he hasn’t left metal: although he’s currently touring as a guitar tech for Destruction, he plans to release a solo album “of extreme instrumental guitar music” sometime next year via Earache, according to a press release. And now he’s offering fans a taste of that solo album in the form of the demo “Spaceship Janitor,” which, I’m sad to report, is only a working title.

So how does it sound? Like Drake has been mainlining shred albums from the early 90s. No joke, it wouldn’t have taken a whole lot to convince me this was an Extremist-era Joe Satriani track or something by Blues Saraceno or someone else of that ilk. I was actually a fan of all that stuff back in the day, so even though it took a couple of listens, the Drake track is, unsurprisingly, growing on me. It won’t change your life or anything, but it’ll get your foot tappin’ fer sure.

Check out “Spaceship Janitor” below. More deets on Drake’s solo debut as we get ’em.