“With all the setbacks from Covid, member changes, cancer, and life throwing curveballs at us constantly it took quite some time for this album to make it to your ears.”
Produced by Greg Wilkinson (“the evil wizard of Bay Area metal) at Earhammer Studios and released by Oakland label Transylvanian Recordings, Malicide is the second full-length album by Molten. The SF five-piece band growls a ravaging blend of death and thrash metal, musing on themes of war, corruption, and other world horrors. Tonally guttural and pounding staccato chains of sound permeate the album from end to end, with only the guitars occasionally breaking into higher registers above the fray. Dark, heavy, extreme, and a notable entrant in Bay thrash.
