EVILE Guitarist OL DRAKE's Jaw In All Of Its Busted, Lacerated Glory

December 15, 2008

The travails of EVILE guitarist Ol Drake and his jaw injury have been well documented. After suffering a random blackout while walking on the street, Ol fell face first into the pavement. Since then he has suffered from the effects of a broken jaw, having to correct it by wiring it shut for two weeks. In addition, the bottom of Ol's jaw was severely lacerated during the incident.

Here, for the first time, is a picture (see below) of what the gash at the bottom of Ol's jaw looks like (not for the squeamish).

Ol had previously described the incident at great length through a blog post on EVILE's MySpace page:

"Outside the Waterfront in Rotterdam (which is literally AT the water front),I started to get blurred vision. Next thing I knew I'm being woken up by two of the SATYRICON guys. I just thought, 'Oh shit, what happened?' I couldn't feel my jaw, so I didn't notice anything at first. If i was any nearer the water; bye bye.

"There was a big pool of blood under where my head had been, so I wondered where it came from. One of the guys said my teeth were covered in blood so it's probably a broken tooth. I checked my teeth and found one quite out of alignment and thought, 'Woo.'

"Then I felt my beard (which probably cushioned the blow making this a lot less serious) was drenched in blood. Other than this looking very cool, I wondered where it came from. So I stick my fingers into my beard, then I'm suddenly touching my jaw bone. As in… touching the actual bone, and other squishy Peter Jackson-esque things. I look down at my fingers and they're dark red, drenched in blood. Then I realized I might be in trouble.

"We woke Matt [Drake] up (who was simultaneously having a dream that I'd fallen off something??) and called an ambulance. I was asked if I was OK again, and I noticed my teeth were making new friends with teeth they'd never met before, i.e. my jaw was in the totally wrong place. I felt my face and there was a huge jaw bone on one side, and a gap on the other."

For more information on the incident and Ol's blow-by-blow description of what happened, go to EVILE's MySpace page.

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