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On December 11, 2023, Pop Evil posted a letter from Hayley Cramer to their Facebook page announcing her departure, citing her desire to branch out and find new paths and adventures. Cramer was later replaced with drummer Blake Allison. The band released the album, What Remains , in April 2025.

On January 13, 2023, the band released a third single for Skeletons , titled “Dead Reckoning”, the song featured Ryan Kirby, vocalist of American metalcore band Fit for a King and was released along with an accompanying visualizer.

On April 22, 2022, the band released the single “Eye of the Storm” with an accompanying music video, along with a remix of the song titled “Into the Vortex”, released July 15, 2022.

The band released a collaboration song with ZILLION on July 29, 2022, titled “War Inside of Me”, which was to be featured on ZILLION’ s debut EP, Radio Face , followed by the release of a live recording of “Eye of the Storm” from Toronto, ON on August 26, 2022. A month later, on September 30th, a second single following “Eye of the Storm”, titled “Paranoid (Crash & Burn)” was released, later receiving a music video which was released on December 9, 2022 and was used to announce their upcoming album, Skeletons , releasing March 17th, 2023.

Pop Evil were meant to play a European tour, starting in Glasgow on November 2, 2022, however the tour was postponed until May of 2023.

In April 2020, the band released the singles, “Work” and “Let the Chaos Reign”. On November 13, 2020, the band returned with the “pulsing” single “Breathe Again”, while also announcing the title of their sixth album, Versatile , which they started working on during the winter of 2019. It was released on May 20, 2021. Matt DiRito would then go on to announce his departure from Pop Evil shortly after the album’s release, keeping his reasons private. Due to travel restrictions from Covid, drummer Jason Hartless filled in for Hayley Cramer during the first leg of the 2021 Versatile tour.

In April 2019, the group performed multiple shows with Messer and Memphis May Fire .

In March 2019, Pop Evil announced their first ever Australian tour.

On March 25, 2019, Pop Evil announced a large summer tour, opening for Disturbed the first half of dates and In This Moment for the second.

In October 2017, the ensemble announced that they planned to release their self-titled album Pop Evil on February 16, 2018, with the release of the album’s lead single, “Waking Lions”. In November 2018, Pop Evil announced tour dates with Palaye Royale and Black Map to promote their new album.