LOUDNEZZ November 2013 Issue 1 Volume 1 | Page 38

EYE EMPIRE VOCALIST DONALD CARPENTER KEEPS PRESSING AS BAND DELIVERS “EVOLVE” There are bands that tour and then there are bands like Eye Empire. In a 3-year period, this band has done over 800 shows and appear to have no signs of slowing down. Recently, the band released “Evolve”, a 12 song CD full of hard rocking sounds from fist pumping metal to acoustic driven hard rock. “Evolve” takes off where 2012’s “Impact” stopped. In the words of vocalist Donald Carpenter, “Impact was a work in progress”. Don and the rest of Eye Empire, Corey Lowery, B.C. Kochmit and Ryan Bennett are in the middle of a tour in support of their new CD and we spoke to him about the new record, touring and his time in the military. 38