Gates of Hell setlist

My copy I taped off the radio is long gone, but it is definitely one of Malhavoc's BEST after their 1986 demo and pre-The Release CD.

I know James,John, and new member guitarist(& keyboards/sampler?) Steve(is that his name?)(ex-Winter Regime) were in the band.
Possibly Rob Wright too.

Malhavoc - Live on CIUT-FM, Toronto
1/17/1990
Beyond The Gates of Hell radio show

No Running
William Wilson
Falling
S.C.E.X.
The Release (with Metallica's 'No Remorse', and Urbain Grandier medley)
The Age of the Dark Renaissance / Dunwich Horror
Like Clockwork (WINTER REGIME cover)
? unknown track
ending with James C.& John C. jamming after end of the set.

Malhavoc to play a gig on Saturday April 30th, 2011

Saturday at 21:00 - Sunday at 02:00

MALHAVOC
EPILEPTICBRAINSURGEONS
ANTITRUST DIVISION

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=202633933091326

Saturday at 21:00 - Sunday at 02:00

The Bovine Sex Club
542 Queen St W
Toronto

Since there has never been a mention that the classic trio of James C.,John C.,and Dave C. reuniting and giving us wicked metal again, I was not going to mention this....

however,

I seen these posts on the facebook event page for this -


Jimi LaMort I am hoping to DJ at Neurodance that night too. Always wanted to spin there but i DJ Fetish@Goodhandys the first Sat every month. Gonna premeire new MALHAVOC at Nocturne and live at Blovine that night.
08 April at 16:22


Jimi LaMort
How about this then... it's a little older.
Dunwich Horror by MALHAVOC
Dunwich Horror by MALHAVOC
From the album "AGE OF THE DARK RENAISSANCE" recorded and released 1986 on cassette only. Recorded by Jimi LaMort and Johnny Carss or E...
19 April at 12:02 · LikeUnlike
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Michael Myre "Dear Jimi, I Love you. Yours truly, Mike. I better hear this at the show or you're jeopardizing our relationship.
19 April at 12:37
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Jimi LaMort "We'll see tonight at rehearsal how our relationship is doing. I have a feeling we may do a lot of the 80's songs....
19 April at 12:45 ·


NOW
...just one brief mention of a maybe is not enough incentive for me to attend.

IF it was the classic trio, and John plays his real drumset with the roto toms and at at least half the set was the classic demo material....


it is times like these, I am told afterward "You should have been there!, they did ALL the old stuff that you like!"

_____________________________

old stuff (Thanks James)


"promo photocopy from 1986. Photographed at our jam room rehearsal"



Here is a ruff b/w mock up for what was gonna be one side of the album cover for our SHRINE album for Diabolic Force/Metal Blade records. Never seen before, this is actually a color painting i have in my closet somewhere for the Epoch of Empirism side of the record. the other side, Age of the Dark renaissance was to have the same art work from the demo.

ticket from first gig 1987

I was looking around and found this on facebook.
Thanks to Johnny B for sharing.

Sticker

Incredible!
Someone has posted a pic of the sticker that James handed out once. I even had it on my Vantage bass guitar (wonder if the guy who bought it, kept it on there?)

It was kind of large,maybe 5 (wide) x 6 (height) inches.

so, thanks to
http://www.myspace.com/evenmoreobscure1980smetal

here is what I THINK was the sticker for either the song Masque of Red Death,or Dread.

The Apocalypse Club.Toronto.Thursday, November 2nd, 1989

 EDIT: scan of a review added - Scrolls of Doom #5, Dec'89 Final Issue_0014.jpg 

added 2024/Aug 09

 

 

The Apocalypse Club.Toronto.Thursday, November 2nd, 1989.

Malhavoc with drum machine/sequencer,James C.- guitar/vocals,and one or two other guitarists.Can't remember for sure if Rob Wright was in the band yet at that point and onstage, or who the other guitarist was. Well, maybe someone will know and leave a comment.

I found the J card from the cassette recording I made of this show, but not the actual tape.
Might as well give a review.

It might have been one I made with the mono walkman. Usually they were okay. Flat sounding, sometimes a little too much bass, but I was heavily into listening to local HC and metal bands' songs at home, over and over again, especially if I didn't have their demo, or all of their songs on a demo or rehearsal tape I could get.

Ok, the set list for Thursday, November 2nd, 1989.
The Apocalypse Club.(on College Street, near Ossington) was --

1.FLOODER (which later became WILLIAM WILSON)
2.FALLING
3.NO RUNNING (aha! They did play it live! I forgot. I always had the nagging feeling I heard it before I ever seen OVERTHROW using it as an intro tape to their live show).
4.TURN
5.S.C.E.X.
6.LOVE SONG
7.THE DARK HALF


Ok, if it was not this show, then it was at The Rivoli Club, where radio dj/Record Peddler cashier/the 4 eyes picked on by Brian Tailor occasionally - Mr. Chris Twomey, played on the video screen that was rented, an Anton Lavey documentary/history, which ended with a "special message" at the end by Lavey himself onscreen.

One or two techno, or industrial bands opened. I want to say DHI or Digital Poodle, but maybe it wasn't either of them.

Malhavoc, prior to their cd The Release, seemed pretty cool at the time.

HC punks, and thrash/black/death metallers, were kind of open to the idea of not having a live drummer, as many probably heard some Skinny Puppy, Ministry, KMFDM, etc by then. (I know for years, I was checking out college radio station CKLN-FM and listening to all sorts of music).

Radio DJ Chris Sheppard also was playing that type of music among some metal like Overkill or punk like Dayglo Abortions on his weekly late night, dance party, video show on CHCH TV.
I remember being angry they played "Here Today, Guano Tomorrow" at the end of one show and the closing credits rolled over the band and they cut off the song! Still, better than MuchMusic that never showed it at all !


.......so Malhavoc's 40 to 45 minute set was pretty cool. Some headbanging riffs, mostly moody, kind of doomy music. They had a video screen on behind them for most or all of their set. James had figured out what images, and movie clips he wanted the audience to see to understand what he meant / was symbolizing in his songs (because he sang weird and we didn't really know what he was saying).

Probably the coolest part I remember still, was something to do with werewolves/Jekyll & Hyde/ conflict inside people. It might have been revisited throughout the whole set, but the first and last songs seem to stand out more when the screen synched up/told the story perfectly with their music.


I remember standing near the one foot stage, and during one song, all three guitars were playing different notes/chords, and it started feeling like the two halves of my brain were grating against each other, and my stomach started churning,and I wanted to shit and have diarrhea at the same time. I had to step away a few feet, from the line of fire of the PA and the guitar amps! I really felt like throwing up and shitting at the same time.

After the show, I asked others and nobody else seemed to know what I was talking about, and thought that I was crazy and making it up. I mentioned it to James C. some days or weeks later, and he started smiling and laughing and saying "That's EXACTLY what I was hoping to do!" He said he got the idea, but wasn't sure if it was possible or something.


Anyways, no idea if anybody else recorded the show on audio cassette, and still kept it. I don't think I copied my tape for anyone before it snapped/twisted or maybe I recorded over it. (I used normal tapes,instead of chrome, mostly back then,and also listened to the live tapes I made more than albums I bought, and would eventually get bored of them, after listening to them a LOT.)

Malhavoc - (1987) Shrine LP

Malhavoc - (1987) Shrine LP

01 - Age Of The Dark Renaissance-Urbain Grandier
02 - Attack From The Sepulcher
03 - Empirical Minds
04 - Dunwich Horror
05 - Dread
06 - Age of Desire
07 - Masque of the Red Death
08 - Meridiana
09 - Trial And Error: Of Reanimators And Immortals/ From Beyond/ Deathtrance
10 - ExtroMalhavoc 1987 Shrine LP flac-Level 8.rar
File size: 341.57 MB
Malhavoc 1987 Shrine LP mp3's @320 kbps.rar
File size: 123.61 MB
go to
http://malhavocfans.blogspot.ca/2013/05/re-ups-nothing-new.html

It has been so long, and since I no longer have access to any old fanzines, or any folks who remember what was supposed to be --- I managed to wing it.

As a diehard fan of this era of Malhavoc, and having attended most, if not all of their shows when they were still true metal, I put together the tracks of what was to be their debut album for Diabolic Force / Fringe Records, from 2 of their cd's.

There has been a rough mix tape that has been traded for years, and I doubt it originally came from me, but you never know. Brian yelled at me when he seen it on my tapetrader list 6 months , or a year later.

It was only 6 songs, one side of a 45 minute tape. Figures me, or Rob Raffan didn't tell me there were more songs on the other side for a long time!

"Dread" I know was written around December 1985, as that was when it was recorded on a rehearsal tape.
All the others not from the Renaissance demo, am pretty sure were all written in 1987.

Since "Deathtrance", and the outro was at the end of the rough mix tape we had,I always felt that was how the vinyl was meant to end when released (this STILL shoule be on vinyl- everybody is bootlegging Razor and Sodom and Mercyful Fate, how about these guys?!)

"From Beyond" is not the same song from the March 1987 rehearsal,just the same title used.

The ONLY thing which does not seem right is "Extro".

I remember an electrical sizzling sound, like the Tempest video game,plus James pointed out,if you listen very, very carefully - in the background he sampled the squeaking gate and rain from "the Storm" off the 1986 demo 'Age of The Dark Renaissance'.
I don't hear it on this,so was it scrapped, or am I going deaf?

Unless I find other early tapes/rips from fans, this might be the last post for this blogsite.
I will not be uploading The Release, or Premeditated Murder cd's. I see there are torrents on the net for them, so you bastards who know how that shit works, go grab them there, I don't know how.
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EDIT:

Ok, I know where I messed up. The outro track was called "Epoch Of Empirism", and it is included here - Malhavoc 1990 Demo The Release
I'm not fixing the mistake. But those of you who want the album as meant to be, delete Extro, add "Epoch", and fix the mp3 details to match.

The artwork used for Malhavoc's 1986 demo

Etching or engraving of "sabbat des sorciers 1613 From Tableav de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et demons Pierre de Lancresabbat des sorciers 1613 From Tableav de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et demons Pierre de Lancre"

Etching or engraving of "sabbath of witches Tableav From 1613 to the fickleness of bad angels and demons Stone Lancresabbat wizards Tableav From 1613 to the fickleness of bad angels and demons Stone Lancre"
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After long hours of googlesearch and guessing back and forth, I found it.
Many many thanks to http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com for having it online!

I might be missing the demo cover,lyric sheet, logo sheet,and sticker,but this is pretty cool to finally see all of, right?

Shrine

In July 1987 I was shooting the shit with James on the phone about ideas for the debut album they were recording for Brian Taylor's Diabolic Force label (while a straight edge kid/fanzine editor kept crank calling me during it, which kind of annoyed me at the time).

James was telling me what kind of feel he wanted the album to give off, and it reminded me of a James Herbert ("horror"?) book I finished reading.
After I read the following passage above to him, he shouted pretty enthusiastically. It tied in with some themes he had, maybe with songs like Deathtrance.

I loaned him the book, which is the cover pictured above. (I sort of gave up asking for it back after a few years).It's at the library anyway.

Next thing we know, while he is taping up flyers (for 3 upcoming Malhavoc gigs, one was with Stig Evil,a Mercyful Fate covers band),outside of the King Diamond/Trouble gig at the Diamond Club (Trouble did not play, it was said the stage was too small for both bands sets and equipment...damn ripoff for many of us), we learn that King Diamond's next release will be called "Shrine" (think it was a B side of his single?)

That was sort of a bummer.

THEN James was pissed off that one idea he had for his album cover of a guy being dissected on a surgeon's table, , was stolen by Fringe Records for their DISSECTION album!(there is a partial view of that promo flyer here)




So..there, if you ever wondered WHY the debut album was going to be called that.

EDIT: 

Finally have a copy again of the whole thing again. Probably found it on facebook from Jimi Lamort or the Malhavoc group page.
The debut album was to have two sides -
the songs from the 1986 "Age of The Dark Renaissance" demo would have the 
"Etching or engraving of "sabbath of witches Tableav From 1613 to the fickleness of bad angels and demons Stone Lancresabbat wizards Tableav From 1613 to the fickleness of bad angels and demons Stone Lancre"
 and
the newer written songs like "Age of Desire" and "Empirical Minds" would have the artwork on the other side "Epoch of Empirism".

Here are some more photos

Thanks to everybody that has uploaded these and shared on facebook and other websites.
 

Malhavoc summer 1989 demo

 go to
http://malhavocfans.blogspot.ca/2013/05/re-ups-nothing-new.html


Malhavoc summer 1989 demo @128.rar
1.Love Song
2.No Running

Guitar on Love Song sounds influenced by The Cure's scarier/eerie work.
Would label this maybe as industrial,definitely alternative. Reminds me of very early Ministry, before they got heavy.
Also, story behind this, ok, PART of the story, is the female in the background saying I love you from the answering machine was from a suicide message.

No Running ,a bombastic soundtrack music track, would fit in a Schwarzenegger flick from the 1980s or 90s.
Was used as the live show intro for Overthrow, Toronto area thrash metal band.
Unreleased still as far as I know (I stopped listening to them after Premeditated Murder).

all instruments/programming - James C.

No jacket made for this, not an official tape, just happened to find it and copy it when I visited one time.