Malhavoc
Biography
One of the pioneers of industrial music, Toronto, Canada's Malhavoc picked up on the scattered transmissions sent out by formative acts such as Throbbing Gristle, Coil, and Chrome, contributed to the genre's development throughout the 1980s alongside contemporaries like KMFDM, Skinny Puppy, and Ministry, and thus pre-dated its effective, 1990s coming of age by several years. Formed by vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, programmer, and lone mainstay James Cavalluzzo in 1983, Malhavoc began making waves in the tape-trading underground with a slew of extreme metal-infused demos like The Destruction Starts (1983), The Destruction Continues (1984), Age of the Dark Renaissance (1986), and 1988's watershed, Shrine, which still mingled industrial basics with lingering death metal elements and ambient sounds. Malhavoc's first official album, The Release -- featuring Cavalluzzo, guitarists Dave Kiner and Rob Wright, and bassist Steve Jelliman -- finally arrived in 1990; but perhaps even more than his music, Cavalluzzo and co. first drew attention to themselves because of their penchant for shocking on-stage antics, whereupon bandmembers and assorted guests would infamously indulge in everything from theatrical displays of S&M and nudity, to role-playing violence and real self-mutilation.
Selected Discography
Get Down
1994
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