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Malevolent Creation: Retribution (1992)
“Clear vinyl week” continues here on VinylSpinning with this splattered reissue of 30-year-old deep cut of an album ...
I don’t think I’ll upset anyone here when I call Malevolent Creation supporting actors in the long history of death metal; meaning they did little to amplify the movement’s popularity beyond its core fan base, but the ‘movie’ still wouldn’t have been the same without them.
Like their peers in Cannibal Corpse, M.C. first formed in dank, Niagara Falls-sprinkled Buffalo, New York, before relocating to where the American extreme metal action was, just then: sunny, sweltering, Tampa, Florida, there to pursue their dreams of death.
In fact, you could say the quintet made all the right moves for a career in ‘90s death metal: they signed with Monte Conner at Roadrunner Records (no other label was more committed to the style), hired producer Scott Burns, and were soon partaking in the Morrisound Studios ‘magic.’
1991’s The Ten Commandments arrived first but it was the next year’s Retribution that seemed to solidify the group’s position -- not as a song-oriented entity like Entombed or Sepultura, nor as a genre-reshaping progressive force like Death or Atheist, but as an immovable object devoted to hyper-technical brutality.
When I quizzed Monte as to whether this was perhaps a larger trend that saw M.C. (along with Pestilence, Morbid Angel, and countless other bands) making a final break with their formative thrash influences, he sagely shrugged away my silly theories and said, “I think they just wanted to show their chops.”
You really can’t argue with that.
And there’s something to be said about a good old-fashioned arse-kicking, which is precisely what Retribution favorites like “Eve of the Apocalypse,” “Slaughter of Innocence,” and “Monster” inflict with the uncompromising savagery and precision of a jackhammer.
Meanwhile, newly arrived drummer Alex Marquez is an absolute beast (see the impossibly complex “Coronation of Our Domain,” the inhumanly fast “The Coldest Survive”), and lead guitarist Phil Fasciana unleashes a series of face-melting riffs and solos for “Systematic Execution” and “Iced.”
It all makes for a dense, demanding, slow-to-digest listening experience that I rarely have the patience for these days, but which was part and parcel of a death metal fan’s challenge 30 years ago, when we were young and had far more time on my hands.
And while more adventurous and/or famous groups shined brightly but eventually fell by the wayside, Malevolent Creation kept right on ticking, through thick and thin, and that’s why they’ve entrenched themselves as one of death metal’s charter bands, no matter that it’s in a supporting role.
Everyone has to play their part, am I right?
More Early Days Death Metal: Amorphis’ The Karelian Isthmus, Atheist’s Piece of Time, Autopsy's Severed Survival, Brutality's Screams of Anguish, Cannibal Corpse’s Tomb of the Mutilated, Carcass’ Heartwork, Carnage’s Dark Recollections, Comecon’s Converging Conspiracies, Cynic’s Focus, Dark Millennium’s Ashore the Celestial Burden, Dark Tranquillity’s The Gallery, Death’s Leprosy, Dismember’s Like an Everflowing Stream, Edge of Sanity’s Unorthodox, Entombed’s Clandestine, God Macabre’s The Winterlong, Gorguts’ Considered Dead, Grave's Into the Grave, Immolation’s Dawn of Possession, Massacra's Final Holocaust, Massacre’s From Beyond, Morbid Angel’s Altars of Madness, Morgoth’s Resurrection Absurd, Necrophobic’s The Nocturnal Silence, Nocturnus’ The Key, Obituary’s The End Complete, Pestilence’s Consuming Impulse, Possessed’s Seven Churches, Sadus' Swallowed in Black, Sepultura’s Beneath the Remains, Suffocation’s Effigy of the Forgotten, Tiamat’s The Astral Sleep, Unleashed’s Where No Life Dwells.
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