Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Malhavoc 1986 Demo Age of the Dark Renaissance




Here it is. The BEST that MALHAVOC ever did. The pinnacle. the peak. The piece de resistance, and all that jazz.
Yes, their album Shrine had amazing production and you could definitely hear on that recording all the German thrash James was influenced by, most notably Destruction.

The Age of The Dark Renaissance demo though is one of the most original tapes that was a part of thrash metal history.

A meltdown of influences here - NWOBHM like Iron Maiden with Dianno, Bathory, Sodom, Metallica, and horror movie soundtracks.

I should have left the long pauses of silence between the tracks, as when we played the tape, it added a lot of mystery as "what next?" and you'd hear wind, a creaking gate, etc

I added a song John and James recorded for that demo, but was left off, and hardly anyone knows about. Personally I think they made it sound a MILLION times better than the original by Kreator.

01.Age of the Dark Renaissance
02.Urbain Grandier
03.Night Cry
04.Meridiana
05.Arythmia
06.Attack from the Sepulcher
07.the Storm
08.Fey
09.Dunwich Horror
+ unreleased instrumental version of
10.Endless Pain (Kreator cover)

go to
http://malhavocfans.blogspot.ca/2013/05/re-ups-nothing-new.html
for
Malhavoc 1986 Demo Age of the Dark Renaissance @ 320
or FLAC files




Many many thanks goes out to ChorazaiM of MEGIDDO for loaning his copy to me.
He might have stated his copy sounded poor,as he played it many times himself, but it sounds good to me.
By the way, I wish I had the live tape of the March 13th,1987 gig when Malhavoc played with Beyond, and Holocaust At Idiko's (aka The Bridge).
Just remembered a special guest singing on Dunwich Horror!



EDIT: here, an even better rip I did. If you use FLAC files that is.
Malhavoc (Can) - 1986 Demo Age of the Dark Renaissance FLAC Level 8

01.Age of the Dark Renaissance
02.Urbain Grandier
03.Night Cry
04.Meridiana
05.Arythmia
06.Attack from the Sepulcher
07.the Storm
08.Fey
09.Dunwich Horror
+ unreleased instrumental version of
10.Endless Pain (Kreator cover)

252 MB




This was on the back of one the sheets included with the demo, either was on the back of the lyrics, the songs/track times listing, or the strange collage of pictures.
This also was a photocopied sticker that came with the demo,the size of the cassette cover.

Malhavoc 1991 Punishments








I think Re-release is the version that James wanted to originally record, but the first time in the studio with the new style,for The Release album, they played it as fast as they performed it live?
I can't remember exactly what he said that night he came down to CKLN after I played the ancient Malhavoc demo song "Sineater"...
I forgot there was a M.E.A.T.compilation cd... was there 2 of them? Think bands had to pay to get on there, so Ron Sumners who owned Epidemic Records maybe caught a deal?
Funny,eh? because years later, that is what BW&BK mag did, charge bands a fee to get a track and a brief mention on their monthly compilation cd with the magazine.

01 - Punishments
02 - Woodwitch
03 - The Mirror
04 - Distaste
05 - Re-Release
06 - Punishments (M.E.A.T. Mix)
07 - Woodwitch (Dirt Mix)

Malhavoc (1991) Punishments CD rip 320 kbps

at
http://malhavocfans.blogspot.ca/2013/05/re-ups-nothing-new.html

Thanks to Steve Murphy (from Eldritch Rite,Process Revealed, and Rotting Corpse),for sending me this cd, as I don't remember what happened to my copy.

Malhavoc 1990 Demo The Release




full demo cover included in download
James said on each copy he handed out, he added him fooling around with his sequncer to fill up side 1.

01.The Release
02.S.C.E.X.
03.William Wilson
04.1990 demo exclusive to this cassettte copy

05.Epoch Of Empirism (from Shrine)
06.Empirical Minds (from Shrine)
07.Age Of Desire (from Shrine)
08.Mark of Cain (By Steve)

go to
http://malhavocfans.blogspot.ca/2013/05/re-ups-nothing-new.html
for
Malhavoc 1990 Demo The Release vbr (224 to 320 kbps)

Kudos to Oskar for loaning this tape back to me to copy and share it with other Malhavoc fans (all 3 of you know who you are, that remember when Malhavoc was good).
AND a big I don't give a CRAP THAT "evil" chuck is dead,ZERO KUDOS to "Evil" Chuck for smashing his copy of the demo and also for the Malhavoc shirt also given to him that he left on the floor of his tour bus and made people walk on.
Guess maybe karma caught up to him?

Malhavoc 1989 1-89 DEMO TESTING THE WATERS




1.SLEEPING REASON
2.T.V.F.U.

James gave this tape to me at the Soundgarden/Faith No More/Voi Vod gig at The Concert Hall.
Think it was then.
All he said was this was the new direction he was heading in.
Like he said in 1987, he was planning to be more soundtrackish like one of his favourite bands GOBLIN.

Lineup - James C. all instruments
Malhavoc 1989 1-89 DEMO TESTING THE WATERS 224 kbps
at
http://malhavocfans.blogspot.ca/2013/05/re-ups-nothing-new.html

Malhavoc 1987 rehearsal

Of course, I was so smart to copy the two songs only from this rehearsal,but lose the rest and the hour long interview(which was published as 7 pages in the first issue of Scrolls Of Doom zine)

1987 (March ?) rehearsal

1.From Beyond (unreleased, never recorded in studio)
2.Deathtrance (original version, pre-Shrine album)
+
Malhavoc '87 interview in Anti-Poser.jpg (missing the last column)
Anti-Poser was an underground metal fanzine from Niagara Falls, Ontario.Published by Derek Wills.

Lineup-
James C. vocals/guitar
Dave C. bass
John C. drums

http://malhavocfans.blogspot.ca/2013/05/re-ups-nothing-new.html

There is a July 1987 rehearsal that was shared back with me, but sure wish I had kept all of this March session as all 3 members just killed !!

Malhavoc 1985 DEMO #3

YES,this blog is ONLY about Malhavoc that started in Pickering, Ontario.
I will add photos and flyers etc soon.

I WISH I still had the 1983 and 84 demos, and the December 1985 rehearsal tapes.
Maybe someday some or all of it will show up again, but unlikley,

If any of that was released on vinyl by James, despite the poor sound quality, he would get sales, as some of us purchase bootlegs by obscure 1980s death/black.thrash metal bands due to the rarity of the songs.

The original two demos were 4 track (or 8 track ?) tape home recordings I guess and sounded as good as demos by Sodom or Hellhammer.

go to
http://malhavocfans.blogspot.ca/2013/05/re-ups-nothing-new.html
for
Malhavoc 1985 DEMO #3 vbr

1.UNKNOWN B
2.PARANOIA (cover of Black Sabbath's Paranoid with a riff later used in "The Age of..")
EDIT:my mistake. The riff I'm thinking of, was used in either Urbain Grandier or Dunwich Horror.

Fairly sure this was done around just some time before the "Beginning The End" demo that was played on CKLN-FM radio (which no longer exists) out of Ryerson University .

Lineup was for this demo (after guitarist Nigel left?)
James C. (James Cavalluzzo-gtr,bass)
and John C. (John Carss)- drums)