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Malhavoc: Press Release August 2004 |
The original elektropunks are
back! On August 10th, Malhavoc is releasing a new four song EP
entitled Human Fly. The EP is a preview of the new full length
album Anthems for the New Flesh: A Cronenberg Tribute (Due out
Halloween 2004). Anthems for the New Flesh... is a tribute record
to the great local visionary David Cronenberg, featuring 10 dark
electro covers of existential anthems from the punk-era, by artists including
The Cramps, The Cure, Discharge, Joan Jett, Alice Cooper, Black Flag, Depeche
Mode, the Sex Pistols, Suicide, The Stooges and the Ramones. This EP includes
the full extended versions of The Cramps ‘Human Fly’, Depeche
Mode’s ‘Fly on a Windscreen’, and exclusive to this EP
The Cure’s ‘Upstairs Room’ & ‘Lament’ (not
available on full length).
“I had the idea to remake songs
that I feel reflect the dark existentialism and graphic horror of David
Cronenberg’s films. I had always wanted to pay respect to a true Canadian
visionary and what better way then to modernize the genre-bending music of the
Cronenberg era, using songs that reflect the same modernist attitudes and
ideologies as films like The Fly, Videodrome, Scanners etc.” explains
LaMort.
Since their inception in 1983 by Jimi LaMort, Malhavoc has
released five full-length albums. In 1994 the great Dave "Rave" Ogilvie
(Skinny Puppy, NIN, Ministry) befriended Jimi LaMort which led to the next
two Malhavoc releases "Get Down" (1995) and "The Lazarus Complex" (1997) as
well as remixes for Motley Crue, Tool, Nine Inch Nails and Monster
Magnet. Malhavoc garnered intense media attention in the early nineties due
to their frenetic live shows that included acts of masturbation, regurgitation
and self-mutilation, (performances that allegedly have caused some audience
members to pass out).
Malhavoc have always been avant-garde, not only
with their music style (the early use of drum machines in Metal in the
80’s, and combining Metal Techno & Hip-Hop in the early 90’s) but
also with their lyrics and album concepts. From the beginning, LaMort has
recognized that his music is an expression of his personal beliefs and now
after twenty years of recording and performing he considers himself to be more
of a philosopher than a musician.
“There has never been a more
important time than now, in the disaffected twenty-second century, for Malhavoc
to use it’s unique voice to express the new religion of existentialism or
just to teach the kids how to be Punk as Fuck!”
News submitted by Rock&Roll Airlines
Posted Sept. 1st 2004 by
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