Toby Knapp’s WHERE EVIL FOLLOWS Signs With Stormspell Records; Sophomore Album Due This Year

Onward guitarist, Toby Knapp, recently reactivated his speed metal project, Where Evil Follows, recruiting new vocalist Ben Riggs and signing with Stormspell Records in the process.

Where Evil Follows released one album, Portable Darkness, on Moribund Records in 2015 and was considered a darker, more aggressive spin off of his most celebrated band, Onward.

“Then I got bored and did Waxen, a solo album, Affliktor and Necrytis albums all within a year. All on different record labels. I can’t stick with one thing for too long because something always comes along and inspires something else. It’s confusing to the people who listen to my stuff ‘what the hell is he doing now’ and I have a habit of abandoning projects at the drop of a dime. I get writer’s block and switch gears or I’ll stagnate. I like too many genres of heavy metal and sometimes it’s to a fault.”

The guitarist continues: “I’ll want to do instrumental music and then it switches to black or even death metal. I’ll want to do heavy rock, progressive metal or straight forward 80s heavy metal. I’m a musical schizophrenic. This Where Evil Follows album is finished on my part, crazy melodic speed/heavy metal and my mind is already moving into a Gary Moore, Robin Trower direction for what comes next. Luckily this album is coming to fruition, along with a new Waxen album and an instrumental EP which will be a split cd with a great guitarist, Thomas Amorellio. A few exciting things are coming up which I’ll discuss later.”

Where Evil Follows vocalist Benjamin Riggs has been a friend of Knapp since the early nineties.

“He texted me out of the blue one day while I was working on this music with no vocalist in mind. Ben asked if I was interested in working together and I said, ‘actually I’ve got some music to send you right now!’”

Ben has had a long history in the metal business playing in Forced Religion with Knapp and then moving on to bands such as Arcanium (guitar), Sault and Draghoria (vocals).

Where Evil Follows sophomore album, Ruination Revelation, will be released by Stormspell Records later this year.