Pop Evil
Pop Evil make hard rock built for immediate force: big choruses, thick riffs, steady grooves, and Leigh Kakaty's gritty, arena-sized vocal delivery. Their rise through Lipstick on the Mirror, War of Angels, and Onyx established a band with one foot in post-grunge melody and the other in heavier active-rock punch, producing durable anthems such as "100 in a 55," "Trenches," and "Deal with the Devil." Later albums widened the sound without abandoning the core. Up leaned into polished hooks, Pop Evil and Versatile added electronic accents and sharper rhythmic attack, and Skeletons brought a heavier, darker edge to the band's radio-ready structure. The music is not built around extremity; its impact comes from economy, repetition, and choruses that arrive fast. Guitars sit low and muscular, drums stay locked to the groove, and the vocals carry themes of resilience, frustration, self-repair, and confrontation in a plainspoken way. Pop Evil's strongest material works because it understands scale, turning simple riff-driven ideas into songs that can fill a festival field without losing their hard-rock spine.
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Pop Evil Discography
14 tracks
- 1 Hero 3:31
- 2 Breathe 3:23
- 3 Shinedown 3:40
- 4 100 In A 55 4:11
- 5 Somebody Like You 3:42
- 6 3 Seconds To Freedom 3:20
- 7 Another Romeo & Juliet 4:35
- 8 Stepping Stone 3:38
- 9 Jupiter In June 3:56
- 10 One More Goodbye 3:56
- 11 Ready Or Not 3:33
- 12 Hard Highway 3:37
- 13 Hey Mister 3:58
- 14 100 In A 55 - Acoustic Version 3:32
2 tracks
- 1 Hero 3:26
- 2 Somebody Like You 3:45
15 tracks
- 1 Hero 3:28
- 2 Breathe 3:23
- 3 Shinedown 3:35
- 4 100 In A 55 4:11
- 5 Somebody Like You 3:46
- 6 3 Seconds To Freedom 3:22
- 7 Rolling Stone 4:15
- 8 Another Romeo & Juliet 4:33
- 9 Stepping Stone 3:30
- 10 One More Goodbye 3:58
- 11 Hard Highway 3:38
- 12 Hey Mister 4:00
- 13 100 In A 55 - Acoustic 3:32
- 14 Somebody Like You - Acoustic 4:00
- 15 Stepping Stone - Acoustic 3:30
10 tracks
- 1 Last Man Standing 3:23
- 2 Epitaph 3:32
- 3 Broken & Betrayed 3:38
- 4 Monster You Made 3:41
- 5 Let It Go 4:10
- 6 Boss's Daughter 3:25
- 7 Daisy Chain 3:34
- 8 Purple 4:04
- 9 Black & Blue 3:38
- 10 Next Life 4:00
1 track
- 1 Purple 4:04
12 tracks
- 1 Goodbye My Friend 3:51
- 2 Deal with the Devil 3:21
- 3 Trenches 3:37
- 4 Torn to Pieces 3:16
- 5 Divide 4:17
- 6 Beautiful 3:23
- 7 Silence & Scars 3:31
- 8 Sick Sense 3:23
- 9 Fly Away 3:26
- 10 Behind Closed Doors 4:16
- 11 Welcome to Reality 3:42
- 12 Flawed 4:25
13 tracks
- 1 Goodbye My Friend 3:51
- 2 Deal with the Devil 3:21
- 3 Trenches 3:37
- 4 Torn to Pieces 3:16
- 5 Divide 4:17
- 6 Beautiful 3:23
- 7 Silence & Scars 3:31
- 8 Sick Sense 3:23
- 9 Fly Away 3:26
- 10 Behind Closed Doors 4:16
- 11 Welcome to Reality 3:42
- 12 Flawed 4:25
- 13 Beautiful - Alternative Bonus Mix 3:32
1 track
- 1 Deal with the Devil 3:21
1 track
- 1 Trenches 3:37
![Beautiful [Digital 45]](https://usmetalindex.com/img/thumbnails/a4ec6d20a1b9f58d7509331afdd64ba8f59142340d2d5cf439d3beec7e66e893.jpg)
2 tracks
- 1 Beautiful 3:23
- 2 Beautiful - Alternative Bonus Mix 3:32
1 track
- 1 Torn to Pieces 3:16
15 tracks
- 1 Footsteps 4:22
- 2 Core 4:15
- 3 In Disarray 3:45
- 4 Take It All 3:19
- 5 Ghost of Muskegon 3:58
- 6 If Only For Now 3:50
- 7 … 0:30
- 8 Ways To Get High 3:12
- 9 Lux 3:23
- 10 Vendetta 3:39
- 11 Dead in the Water 5:39
- 12 Seattle Rain 4:17
- 13 Til Kingdom Come 5:39
- 14 My Confessions (Bonus Track) 3:11
- 15 Footsteps (Acoustic Version) [Bonus Track] 3:43
1 track
- 1 Ghost of Muskegon 3:58
1 track
- 1 Dead in the Water 5:39
1 track
- 1 In Disarray 3:45
1 track
- 1 Footsteps 4:22
1 track
- 1 Take It All 3:19
1 track
- 1 Waking Lions 3:54
11 tracks
- 1 Waking Lions 3:54
- 2 Colors Bleed 3:44
- 3 Ex Machina 4:10
- 4 Art of War 3:42
- 5 Be Legendary 3:23
- 6 Nothing But Thieves 6:01
- 7 A Crime To Remember 3:22
- 8 God's Dam 4:37
- 9 When We Were Young 4:23
- 10 Birds of Prey 3:12
- 11 Rewind 3:51
1 track
- 1 Colors Bleed 3:44
1 track
- 1 Breathe Again 3:11
1 track
- 1 Let The Chaos Reign 3:18
1 track
- 1 Work 3:54
12 tracks
- 1 Let The Chaos Reign 3:18
- 2 Set Me Free 3:29
- 3 Breathe Again 3:11
- 4 Work 3:54
- 5 Inferno 3:52
- 6 Stronger (The Time Is Now) 3:29
- 7 Raise Your Flag 2:44
- 8 Human Nature 3:37
- 9 Survivor 4:02
- 10 Worst In Me 3:22
- 11 Same Blood 3:21
- 12 Fire Inside 3:06
1 track
- 1 Survivor 4:02
1 track
- 1 Set Me Free 3:29
2 tracks
- 1 Paranoid (Crash & Burn) 3:55
- 2 Eye of the Storm 3:54
3 tracks
- 1 Eye of the Storm - Live In Toronto, ON 4:04
- 2 Eye of the Storm - Into The Vortex Remix 3:53
- 3 Eye of the Storm 3:54
1 track
- 1 War Inside of Me 2:53
2 tracks
- 1 Eye of the Storm - Into The Vortex Remix 3:53
- 2 Eye of the Storm 3:54
1 track
- 1 Eye of the Storm 3:54
16 tracks
- 1 Goodbye My Friend 3:51
- 2 Deal with the Devil 3:21
- 3 Trenches 3:37
- 4 Torn to Pieces 3:16
- 5 Divide 4:17
- 6 Beautiful 3:23
- 7 Silence & Scars 3:31
- 8 Sick Sense 3:23
- 9 Fly Away 3:26
- 10 Behind Closed Doors 4:16
- 11 Welcome to Reality 3:42
- 12 Flawed 4:25
- 13 Beautiful - Alternative Bonus Mix 3:32
- 14 Torn To Pieces - Bonus Mix 3:15
- 15 Trenches 3:39
- 16 Deal With The Devil - Live In Kansas City 4:27
11 tracks
- 1 Arrival 0:22
- 2 Paranoid (Crash & Burn) 3:55
- 3 Circles 3:05
- 4 Eye of the Storm 3:54
- 5 Sound Of Glory 2:51
- 6 Skeletons 3:29
- 7 Worth It 3:48
- 8 Who Will We Become 3:40
- 9 Wrong Direction 4:11
- 10 Dead Reckoning 3:26
- 11 Raging Bull 3:37
2 tracks
- 1 Skeletons - Acoustic Version 3:33
- 2 Skeletons 3:29
![Paranoid (Crash & Burn) [Zardonic Remix]](https://usmetalindex.com/img/thumbnails/1dfc386c1fd147536b3478b5be85a0827d79145230a4c1160a7858d225870d0d.jpg)
2 tracks
- 1 Paranoid (Crash & Burn) - Zardonic Remix 4:24
- 2 Paranoid (Crash & Burn) 3:55
3 tracks
- 1 Dead Reckoning 3:26
- 2 Paranoid (Crash & Burn) 3:55
- 3 Eye of the Storm 3:54
2 tracks
- 1 Deathwalk 2:54
- 2 What Remains 3:37
1 track
- 1 What Remains 3:37
10 tracks
- 1 The Bullet That Missed 2:40
- 2 Deathwalk 2:54
- 3 What Remains 3:37
- 4 Wishful Thinking 3:59
- 5 Side Effects 3:53
- 6 Criminal 3:07
- 7 Enough Is Enough 3:07
- 8 Zero To None 3:24
- 9 Knife For The Butcher 2:59
- 10 Overkill 3:35
2 tracks
- 1 Wishful Thinking 3:59
- 2 Wishful Thinking - Unleaded Version 3:17
![Don’t You (Forget About Me) [Reimagined Unleaded Version]](https://usmetalindex.com/img/thumbnails/93e2fe2867f51f13d3eedecd0296ff906585b407e4f798865f610aab04f3d014.jpg)
1 track
- 1 Don’t You (Forget About Me) - Reimagined Unleaded Version 4:01
12 tracks
- 1 The Bullet That Missed 2:40
- 2 Deathwalk 2:54
- 3 What Remains 3:37
- 4 Wishful Thinking 3:59
- 5 Side Effects 3:53
- 6 Criminal 3:07
- 7 Enough Is Enough 3:07
- 8 Zero To None 3:24
- 9 Knife For The Butcher 2:59
- 10 Overkill 3:35
- 11 The Decay 3:20
- 12 Don't You (Forget About Me) - Midnight Version 3:57
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