The Trousers release ‘Necessary Evil’, the seventh studio album from the Budapest-based hard rock and garage rock band. Songwriter and frontman Zoltán Kőváry started writing the songs in spring 2024, with the first single “Second hand suicide” released in May 2025. A Canadian rock radio called it “an instant rock classic,” while the second single “Restless in peace” tripled the band’s audience on Spotify. The material was finalized in summer 2025 and released in November by Music Fashion Records. Although the band has maintained their own mature sonic landscape since 2013’s ‘Freakbeat’, which featured Hellacopters frontman Nicke Andersson, ‘Necessary Evil’ represents a great step forward with more massive sound and melodic, catchy songs that avoid commercial polish. The album synthesizes 1960s groove and 1970s raw heaviness with modern sound, creating something timeless that serves as a soundtrack for a journey in the rock and roll universe. The feedbacks are excellent, with German Ox Fanzine and Italian Rock Hard both rating the album 9 out of 10. The former claimed “this is how a modern rock album should sound” while the latter elected it “the self-produced album of the month” in January 2025.