Malevolence | |
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 Malevolence in 2019 | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England |
| Genres | |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Labels | MLVLTD, Siege of Amida , Century Media, Beatdown Hardwear, Nuclear Blast |
| Members | Alex Taylor
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| Website | mlvltd |
Malevolence are an English metalcore band formed in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, in 2010. They have released three studio albums and one EP and established their own record label called MLVLTD Music.
Guitarists Josh Baines and Konan Hall first bonded over a shared love of heavy metal music while attending primary school in Sheffield, [1] beginning to perform live when they were twelve years old. [2] Malevolence officially formed in 2010, when Alex Taylor joined as vocalist. They released a demo the next year. [1]
In June 2013, they signed to Siege of Amida Records. [3] The label released the band's debut album Reign of Suffering on 23 November 2013. [4] Between 3 April and 2 May 2014 they supported Obey the Brave on their European headline tour along with Napoleon and Kublai Khan. [5] In the same year, from 8 November to 20 December, they supported Dying Fetus on their European headline tour with Goatwhore and Fallujah. [6] Between 7 August and 16 September 2016 the band toured the North America with Kublai Khan and Jesus Piece. [7]
On 19 May 2017, their second studio album Self Supremacy was released through Beatdown Hardwear Records. [8] From 11 to 13 February 2018, they opened for Despised Icon on their UK tour, along with Archspire and Vulvodynia. [9] They played Download Festival in June. [10] From 21 March to 1 May 2019, they opened along with Misery Signals and Left Behind on Darkest Hour and Unearth's European co-headline tour. [11] Between 1 and 6 December, the band opened for Knocked Loose on their UK headline tour along with Renounced and Justice for the Damned. [12]
In late 2019, the band established their own record label MLVLTD Music as a means to continue releasing music with as much control as possible. [13] In January 2020, they played Invasion Festival in Sydney and toured Australia in support of Terror. [14] On 28 February 2020, the released the song Keep Your Distance, featuring Bryan Garris of Knocked Loose, as a single. [15] On 26 March, they released a music video for their single Remain Unbeaten. [16] Both songs were included on their EP released 24 April titled The Other Side. [15] In reference to the released of an EP, Taylor stated that "We wanted to make a short body of work to put out whilst we continue writing for our next full-length album, whilst also trying to push ourselves out of our comfort zone as much as possible". [13]
In June 2021, the band played the Download Festival Pilot, the first music festival held in the United Kingdom since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [17] On 23 February 2022, they announced that their third album Malicious Intent was set to be released on 20 May 2022 through Nuclear Blast, and released the album's first single "On Broken Glass". [18] The album's second single "Life Sentence" was released on 24 March, [19] followed by the third single "Still Waters Run Deep" on 28 April. [20] On 10 March 2023, the band announced the release of a split EP titled The Aggression Sessions, featuring themselves Thy Art Is Murder and Fit for an Autopsy, which was released 7 April 2023. [21]
The band have been categorised as beatdown hardcore, [22] [23] [24] metalcore, [25] [26] hardcore punk, [27] groove metal [28] and sludge metal. [29] Vocalist Alex Taylor described the band's sound upon forming as having "a weird, melodeath, kinda At the Gates vibe". [1] Rock Sound described them as "the perfect crossover between hardcore and metal", [30] while Noizze described their music as a merger between hardcore punk, heavy metal, and thrash metal, as well as "a sludge-ridden, toxic hybrid of post-hardcore, thrash, metalcore and Texas blues". [31] They often make use of dual vocals between Taylor and Hall. [32]
Rob Barbour from Metal Hammer described their music as "evok[ing] the very best whisky-swiggin', weed-smoking bands that ever swaggered out of states like Texas and New Orleans. Although their King Kong-size riffs are backed by brutal rhythms from the no-frills hardcore playbook, there's no mistaking their origin. Of course they're from the Deep South... of Yorkshire." [1] Writer Stephen Hill described their sound as "like Dimebag Darrell has joined Hatebreed to work on a sludge album". [33] The Sound Board Review described how "Malevolence unquestionably shine, laying down riffs that switch between pounding metallic hardcore and filthy sludge-metal with consummate ease and equal proficiency". [29] Distorted Sound Magazine described it as a "confident combination of the shredding riffs of metal and the belligerent slam of hardcore meant that they were able to straddle both genres with confidence". [32]
They have cited influences including Terror, Madball, Down, Pantera, Crowbar, [1] and Despised Icon. [2] In an article for the Quietus , Dan Franklin described their music as "rooted in the beefed-up chuggery of the turn-of-the-millennium New Wave of American Heavy Metal – Chimaira's The Impossibility of Reason , Hatebreed's Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire and Perseverance , with a dollop of Crowbar's Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form ". [34]
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