Description

2017 re-issue on brown vinyl with lyric insert. Limited 500 copies

Malevolent Creation started their career in 1987 in Buffalo, NY, where they recorded and distributed their first demo. In 1988 they moved to a more fertile music scene in Florida and produced their second demo with a pressing of 1,000 copies. Finally, a third demo the following year brought Malevolent Creation a record deal with Roadrunner. In the late 1980s and early to mid-1990s, the small Roadrunner label was home to numerous underground death metal, grindcore and thrash bands, many of which could not have cared less about appealing to rock’s mainstream. Malevolent Creations debut album The Ten Commandments is a dark and morbid effort addressing such topics as dismemberment, torture, the occult and human sacrifice. This isn’t a brilliant album, nor is it very distinctive. But it is exhilarating, and one of the things that make it effective is Bret Hoffmann’s tortured, choked lead vocals. While other death metal singers are difficult or impossible to understand — and make a point of being that way — it’s usually easy to understand the lyrics Hoffmann is belting out. So when the Florida band tears into such gruesome offerings as “Multiple Stab Wounds,” “Remnants of Withered Decay,” and “Thou Shall Kill!,” one knows just how gruesome they are.

Track listing:
1. Memorial Arrangements
2. Premature Burial
3. Remnants Of Withered Decay
4. Multiple Stab Wounds
5. Impaled Existence
6. Thou Shalt Kill!
7. Sacrifial Annihilation
8. Decadence Within
9. Injected Sufferage
10. Malevolent Creation