Музыка и песни MALLEUS / MALLEUS

Every week bunches of perfectly studio reworked new releases flood the market. But, something special is hard to find. Bands that simply create unusual music and an unusual sound without commercial and stylistic calculation are rare, or can only be found in the underground. When it comes to Malleus, you don‘t know where to start. Technically we are dealing with a NWOBHM band. When bassist Andro Coulton left Witchfynde in 1980 after one album and two singles, he and his girlfriend, now his wife Shaz, founded Malleus. Three songs were recorded before they split up again. The material remained unreleased and can now be found as a bonus on this CD. A song like „White Noise“ could easily be on an early Pentagram album. The band used to play a music style that is not sufficiently described by categorizing it as NWOBHM or 70s hard rock. On the one hand, their unique way of playing reminds of harder tracks by Hawkwind and garage rock by the Stooges, on the other hand they transport a special Doom Metal aesthetic, making us think of Pentagram again. The vocals are somewhere between Scott Reagers (Saint Vitus), NWOBHM and Iggy Pop. Packed into an authentic, mercilessly honest production, which you can only love or hate, a sound pattern is created, which young retro bands desperately try to achieve in vain. Using „primitive“ in a positive sense is possible to describe this style, but may also be replaced by „unadulterated“. Kind of a polarization is also foreseeable, but the band members don’t care. Malleus sound as it comes out of the people behind them, similar to Saint Vitus, who were idolized for their sound and uncompromising attitude only many years later.

Artist: Malleus Label: Regain (Soulfood)