Friday Night Metal
Malefactor & Pirate of the High Frequenseas & polluter & The Blasphemer
The Malefactor returns with the customary feast of new music and live upcoming show announcements.
Behold the Malefactor's unholy presence here.
Bands and labels, submit your music for airplay to:
ASUCD KDVS 90.3 FM
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
ATTN: Metal Department
Genre
Metal
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Friday 7/12/2024 @ 8:00PM - 10:00PM
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adversarial | Witness to the Eternal Light | Solitude With The Eternal... | Dark Descent | A mighty and triumphant return for 2024. |
| Primitive Warfare | Spears of Emission | Extinction Protocol | Stygian Black Hand | 2024. |
| Engulfed | Voidwalker's Dominion | Unearthly Litanies of Despair | Dark Descent | The third in our trifecta of 2024 releases kicking off the set, the return of this Turkish band. |
| Burning Palace | Drowned | Hollow | Transylvanian Recordings | 2020 debut album of this Northern California force of dissonant, technical death metal. An uncommonly worthy entry in a crowded field. |
| Cardinal Sin | Spiteful Intent | Spiteful Intents | Wrong Again Records | Sole EP from this band featuring John Zwetsloot (ex-Dissection). 1996. |
| Absu | The Gold Torques of Ulaid | In The Eyes of Ioldanach | Osmose Productions | Absu at the peak of their powers, this overlooked 1997 EP bridges the gap between Cythraul and Tara with masterful precision and energy. |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Concrete Winds | Infernal Repeater | Concrete Winds | Sepulchral Voice Records | Preview from the album due August 30th, which promises to be one of the more punishing death metal releases of the year. |
| Putrescent Seepage | Adulation of the Dead | Adulation of the Dead | New Standard Elite | Stand-alone single from this elite Australian brutal death metal act. Not a moment of weak, noodle-armed riffing to be found. |
| Ceremonial Bloodbath | Bloodlust Raids of Vengeance | Genesis of Malignant Entropy | Sentient Ruin | 2023 release from this Vancouver band. Appearing at Cafe Colonial with Abstracter next week, July 18th. |
| Abhorrently | Fermenting Gruesome | Demo 2024 | New Standard Elite | Brand new band from Indonesia playing high-quality brutal death. |
| Weregoat | Merciless Execution | The Devil's Lust | Iron Bonehead | 2022 EP from the bestial black metal perverts, who descend on Sacramento on August 30th at the Starlet Room with Funeral Chant, Abhorrency, and Deiphage. |
| Feral Forms | Voice From The Altar | Premalignant | Independent | Outstanding 2023 debut EP from this Italian black/death force. |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Noor | Mother's Guilty Pleasure | Mother's Guilty Pleasure Part One | Self-Released | 2024 debut album of heavy/power metal in the most classic and stirring tradition, for fans of Queensryche, Crimson Glory, Riot, Sanctuary, and the like. |
| Smoulder | Path of Witchery | Violent Creed of Vengeance | Cruz Del Sur | Malefactor's 2023 Album of the Year, a towering triumph of epic, sword and sorcery heavy metal. |
| Tower Hill | The Claw is the Law | Deathstalker | No Remorse Records | 2023 debut of exemplary USPM by this Canadian band. |
| Atlantean Kodex | Lion of Chaldea (The Hero's Journey) | The Course of Empire | Van Records | 2019 masterpiece from Germany's truest Epic Metal warriors. |
| Stormwarrior | To Foreign Shores | Northern Rage | Remedy Records | 2006 sophomore release of muscular, USPM-inflected German speed/power metal. |
| Jag Panzer | The Moors | The Age of Mastery | Century Media | 1998 release from the USPM titans that features a number of their most beloved cuts. |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Human Effluence | A Violent Surge of N, N-Dimethyltryptamine Upon Death | Human Effluence/Sulfuric Cautery | Acid Reflux Productions | 2020. |
| Human Effluence | Spewing Vomit and Excrement | Human Effluence/Sulfuric Cautery | Acid Reflux Productions | 2020. |
| Necrosadist | Abstract Satan | Abstract Satan | Daemon Worship | Punishing 2011 full-length. |
| Cadavoracity | La Sana Abanaskuppatu | Cadavoracity | Earsturbation | 2023. |