Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Malhavoc 1986 Demo Age of the Dark Renaissance




Here it is. The BEST that MALHAVOC ever did. The pinnacle. the peak. The piece de resistance, and all that jazz.
Yes, their album Shrine had amazing production and you could definitely hear on that recording all the German thrash James was influenced by, most notably Destruction.

The Age of The Dark Renaissance demo though is one of the most original tapes that was a part of thrash metal history.

A meltdown of influences here - NWOBHM like Iron Maiden with Dianno, Bathory, Sodom, Metallica, and horror movie soundtracks.

I should have left the long pauses of silence between the tracks, as when we played the tape, it added a lot of mystery as "what next?" and you'd hear wind, a creaking gate, etc

I added a song John and James recorded for that demo, but was left off, and hardly anyone knows about. Personally I think they made it sound a MILLION times better than the original by Kreator.

01.Age of the Dark Renaissance
02.Urbain Grandier
03.Night Cry
04.Meridiana
05.Arythmia
06.Attack from the Sepulcher
07.the Storm
08.Fey
09.Dunwich Horror
+ unreleased instrumental version of
10.Endless Pain (Kreator cover)

go to
http://malhavocfans.blogspot.ca/2013/05/re-ups-nothing-new.html
for
Malhavoc 1986 Demo Age of the Dark Renaissance @ 320
or FLAC files




Many many thanks goes out to ChorazaiM of MEGIDDO for loaning his copy to me.
He might have stated his copy sounded poor,as he played it many times himself, but it sounds good to me.
By the way, I wish I had the live tape of the March 13th,1987 gig when Malhavoc played with Beyond, and Holocaust At Idiko's (aka The Bridge).
Just remembered a special guest singing on Dunwich Horror!



EDIT: here, an even better rip I did. If you use FLAC files that is.
Malhavoc (Can) - 1986 Demo Age of the Dark Renaissance FLAC Level 8

01.Age of the Dark Renaissance
02.Urbain Grandier
03.Night Cry
04.Meridiana
05.Arythmia
06.Attack from the Sepulcher
07.the Storm
08.Fey
09.Dunwich Horror
+ unreleased instrumental version of
10.Endless Pain (Kreator cover)

252 MB




This was on the back of one the sheets included with the demo, either was on the back of the lyrics, the songs/track times listing, or the strange collage of pictures.
This also was a photocopied sticker that came with the demo,the size of the cassette cover.

4 comments:

  1. big respect! i was big fan of early works!! honestly, their later industrial works sucks.

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  2. wow, many thanks for the FLAC !!

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  3. please bro reupload this

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  4. The file name indicates that the cassette cover insert JPEG is "incomplete". That is not quite true. The image may be slightly skewed such that a bit of the edge is sliced off, but that is almost nil. The bottom edge of the cover insert seems to have a bit clipped off (beneath "Meridiana" on one side and "Dunwich Horror" on the opposite side) of the insert. If any of this was actually clipped, it equals nothing lost since nothing was ever printed there. So you have the whole enchilada there even if it is clipped at the bottom. The "sheets", such as MAL+15.JPEG, came with "almost, but not quite" every copy of the demo.

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