The riffs shred like a slip-n-slide made of razor wire. The breakdowns hit like a TRT Vitor Belfort spinning back kick to the face. Even the clean vocals are on roids. I’m currently at IKEA spin kicking everything listening to this album
Colour me shocked. Fair score. The British Metalcore scene is really strong at the moment some absolutely solid bands doing the rounds doing all kinds of things that are worth listening to.
Word. I don't really listen to any symphonic-TYPE-metal bands at all, just not my vibe, but man, I cannot ignore Septicflesh. The songwriting is excellent. 'Codex Omega' was fantastic. I haven't yet spun the new one but "Neuromancer" and the other singles ripped. A standout act for sure.
Honestly temple of void should be featured on the next metal monthly they are coming out with a new album they dropped like three 3 songs that are singles for it already
Malevolence are such a great band and you need to check out The Other Side, such a Crowbar worship song. The guitarist / backing vocalist is a huge Crowbar fan and you can fucking hear it big time.
*_Are the bands that get a record shoutout happy with being "Patreon Only"? One would think maybe they'd like the much, much larger exposure of a shoutout on RU-vid._*
So great to see you guys supporting the Sheffield boys! I love this record and could well be on my album of the year list. Truly exceptional and I have to slightly disagree with Higher Place as that’s a real standout for me personally but that’s all good! Music is completely subjective at the end of the day and that’s what makes it so great. Top work Blayne!
This is like therapy to me. Back in 2013 I heard Serpents Chokehold and was immediately caught with the catchy NOLA vibe, I was interested and bought Reign of Suffering which is pretty good but in the meantime noticed the band being labelled Metalcore (boke). As a well seasoned Thrash / Death and Black Metal fan with Crust and D Beat cravings this should not be on my playlist. But it was and I enjoyed it so I decided to never tell anyone. Until now! Thanks Blayne... for outing me, I am cured...
Malevolence made it to a banger tv review! Good to see them getting some love they’ve been on of the best underground bands in UK metal for a long time, they’ll be well known force over the next year or so. Well deserved success the first two albums were amazing as well and this one is no different non stop riff machines!
Been a fan since their first album. They do everything well. This album is a solid 8/10. They didn't go overboard and get flashy they just wrote good structured songs. I've heard them be called many things but a metalcore band has never been mentioned haha
Always told my friends they sound like Crowbar meets Unearth. Found this band when the first LP came out. Shouts out to their viral tweet saying us American hardcore kids were wild for moshing as hard as we do without free healthcare.
That's just a good way to look at all of music. Sometimes getting outside of our comfort zone can open our minds to other great stuff we might have overlooked.
Song 5 (Higher Place) is a tasteful set up for (Karma) song nr. 6 cuz that thing comes in like an absolute train. Great musical strategy imo. Solid album
not a big metalcore fan outside of Darkest Hour and the first wave 90s stuff like Poison The Well and Integrity. but there's some current kind of scuzzed out beatdown stuff I like, shit like Jesus Piece and Vein that brings some industrial filth to the table.
This album is great. I'll have to listen to it more to decide if it's a favorite of the year but I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for some sludgy metalcore/metallic hardcore.
Probably gonna get some hate for this, but it kind of sounds like if All that Remains had Ivan Moody as a second vocalist. Maybe just my brain trying to attach it to the closest things I know. (P.S. Not meant to be disrespectful to either Malevolence or ATR...actually opened for ATR about 6 years ago and have nothing but love and respect for those guys.)
Doing my rounds of new albums, played Malevolence on youtube and as core album it wasn't impressing much at first (tech/prog death fan). Just by accident I let it play for 10 minutes and just coudn't resist to listen the whole thing through. Great album. Third great core album in last 12 months, there's something going on in that part of the scéne. Came here to see what you say about this one.
Blayne reviewing metalcore? Intresting.... I had a feeling you'd shout out Assumption, some excellent death doom! I have to give shoutouts to a folk/death metal band that had an album about Billy the Kid, Helsott: Will and the Witch and if you like tech death of experimental variety, check out Sadist: Firescorched.
Blayne reviewing a Metal core album, Hell just froze over! OMG!!!! Lol just kidding, Awesome review I am looking forward to checking this album out, 🙏 Thank you 👍👍🤘🤘
Have listened to them since Reign of Suffering and they really tricked me into liking metalcore (again). The first record was just groovy, sludgy, hardcore topped with one clean-sung ballad banger track and then they slowly incorporated more metalcore elements in on further releases.
Anyone else ever put on a 10 hour compilation, hear a good tune, forget to write down who tf they were, and try to find it again a day later to no avail, like a dumbass?
I actually like that they threw different speed and tone songs in it kind of like back in the day you know Pantera wasn't just full Pantera song to song they had good like slower or different songs to break it up like your Cowboys from Hell and and Hollow and you know floods stuff like that which like made the albums great to me malevolence having those songs on their album makes it more like metal used to be instead of just one speed front to back and like it just to me it's more musical talent to be able to like go up and down and shift instead of just in your face the entire album cuz I like that but I'd like two or three songs it's like of the same Pace it just gets old and to me it also helps differ them from your normal just same run-of-the-mill Pace like metal core band cuz I personally don't like metal core that much but the fact that malevolence brings many aspects other other than the normal medical like copy paste sound makes them stand out and actually makes me like them where I normally don't like metal core
I stumbled over their latest album a few days ago and was also suprised to like it a lot. But hey if Rivers of Nihil can reignite my love for numetal, why not.
Funny because I like hardcore and some metalcore more than you do and I can't get into this album as much as I want to, considering the good reviews it gets everywhere. I can't go over the clean singing that seems forced to me and not really natural, some tough guys parts too cliches and already heard... I don't know, that's a tough one but I llgive it another try, hopefully it'll speak more to me.
Good album, catchy tunes. The quality of track dips noticeably to forgettable/ regrettable on few occasions. Metalcore bois may like those tracks tho ;)
I wish I could've judged that book by its cover. I was expecting some brutal floridian death metal, instead I got cheesy emo vocals with generic riffs. I'm so glad the CD era is over. I might've wasted money on this back in the day.
@@joshforeman1648 I just find those types of clean vocals extremely cheesy. I find the emotional cop/bad cop metal core thing has run its course. Hey, I'm just one guy with one opinion…
@@CarcPazu Thats fair enough not liking good cop/bad cop style but this style of vocals is objectively not emo in any sense of the word. His vocal style (apart from in the ballad track) is far more crowbar esque than typical metalcore style.
@@joshforeman1648 I suppose my problem with that band is a marketing problem. Their name, logo and artwork portrayed them as a brutal death metal band but they're not, I guess that's just it. Anyway, don't listen to me, my brain is broken, I can barely listen to clean vocals anymore.
@@reabec10 This kinda feels like a bait, but I'll go for it. I like a lot of death metal, black metal, and Death doom bands. To name some stuff that I've been listenting to recently, 200 Stab Wounds, Bog Body, , Saidan, Reaper, Black Fucking Cancer, Haunter, Temple of Void. I'm not saying that Malevolence is not good at the music they make, just experessing my opinion that it is not for me.
Why ain’t Brad do this one? Or even Dylan, Sam, Riley… I am not adverse to your visage Blaynester whatsoever. Just wanted to get on the board ✊🏿🖤🤘🏾🤎🖕🏻🤍
