METALLIAN - Malignancy

December 7th, Anno 21

Intrauterine Cannibalism - 1999 - United Guttural
Inhuman Grotesqueries - 2007 - Willowtip
Eugenics - 2012 - Willowtip
...Discontinued - 2024 - Willowtip

Members

Vocals

Mortal Decay, Hydrocephalic>>DANNY NELSON>>Mortal Decay, Hydrocephalic

Guitar

Dirty Brown Eye, Mortician, Primer Black, Demolition Hammer, Pyrexia>>RON KACHNIC>>Dirty Brown Eye, Mortician, Primer Black, Demolition Hammer, Pyrexia

Bass

Mortician>>Desmond Tolhurst>>Head Trauma, Engorge, Primer Black - Virus Christ>>Lance Snyder – Mortician, Primitive Brutality>>Roger Beaujard>>Bits Of Gore, Primitive Brutality, Womp Rat - Wisteria, Exist, Jeff Loomis, Wait, Defeated Sanity, Svengahli, Obscura>>ALEX WEBER>>Wisteria, Exist, Wait, Svengahli, Obscura

Drum

Mortician, Primitive Brutality>>Roger Beaujard>>Bits Of Gore, Primitive Brutality, Womp Rat - System Divide, World, Under Blood, Fear Factory, Azure Emote, Control/Resist, Excommunicated, WretchedPain, Raven, Cruelty Exalted, Amahiru, Apoxiomen, Helms Deep, Warseed>>MIKE HELLER>>Fear Factory, World Under Blood, System Divide, Azure Emote, Control/Resist, Excommunicated, WretchedPain, Raven, Cruelty Exalted, Amahiru, Apoxiomen, Helms Deep, Warseed, Defigurement

History & Biography

While there were a couple of Malignancies running around infecting the world this US bunch formed in New York City in 1992 courtesy of singer Nelson and featured two former Morticians. Incidentally, Malignancy and Mortician would tour in 2000. Drummer Kevin Chamberlain was soon recruited. The band got down to recording several demos like 1993’s Eaten out From Within, which presumably was the band’s tribute to Taco Bell, 1994’s Rotten Seed and 1997’s Ignorance Is Bliss. United Guttural picked up the group and issued its debut. Only three years later the same label issued mini-CD called Motivated By Hunger. Another EP, called Cross Species Transmutation, followed again three years later. Again three years pass before the band issues an album, which this time is a full-length and courtesy of Willowtip. The band played shows in the USA, Canada and Japan. Lance Snyder, who was initially with the band in 1996 and 1997, was back again as of 2000. Guitarist Ron Kachnic and singer Danny Nelson were featured in the 2003 documentary Death Metal: A Documentary. Malignancy would tour Europe in July of 2012 on the back of its Eugenics album. The band's drummer, Mike Heller, was busy with Fear Factory and was temporarily replaced by Alex Cohen of Pyrrhon.

The Malignant Future demo was issued in 2016. Half a dozen labels re-released it. The recording’s concept was the negative impact of social media. The recording was publicized by the band and the labels on all social media channels. The band did one of those self-cover versions and re-issued Intrauterine Cannibalism in 2019. It featured the original and the new re-recording.

Alex Weber (of Obscura, etc.) joined on bass in 2020. Drummer Heller was in a dozen bands simultaneously and also teaching drums. The band played Rage Fest with Mortal Decay in New York, USA and Slam Dakota Death Fest 5 in the summer of 2022. The act was booked for NJ Deathfest. Dismember was to also play in NYC on August 17th 2024. The band would perform its debut record Like An Ever Flowing Stream in its entirety, and was to be supported by Vomitory, Undergang, Morpheus Descends and Malignancy. Piranha Fest II was scheduled for Montreal, Canada on September 20th 2024. Bands like Sinister Shovel Headed Kill Machine, Neil Turbin (“40 Years of Fistful Of Metal set” because ‘sets’ were the latest trend), Blood Feast, Glacial Tomb, Malignancy, Point Blank Rage, Tombstoner and Zero State were playing.

...Discontinued was available in June 2024. It was mixed and mastered by Lasse Lammert.

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