Malevolent Creation
// Brett Hoffmann & Phil Fasciana, vocalistsMALEVOLENT CREATION are a death-metal band from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “The Ten Commandments” (1990), “Retribution” (1992), and “Stillborn” (1993) are all available from Roadrunner Records, “Eternal” (1995), “Joe Black” (1996), “In Cold Blood” (1997), “The Fine Art Of Murder” (1998), and “Manifestation” (2000) are all available from Pavement Music, “Envenomed” (2000), “The Will To Kill” (2002), and “Conquering South America” (2004) are all available from Arctic Music Group, “Warkult” (2004), and “Doomsday X” (2007) are both available from Nuclear Blast Records.
Website: www.malevolent-creation.com
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Interview:
Brett Hoffmann
My take on spirituality in music: it sometimes takes the place of what you think is right or wrong. It is very easy for the lost to substitute music for family or religion. If you have problems, you have problems no God is going to make right. Music might help you find a path or give you strength to look for your path, but ultimately it is up to you. Personally I have been making music for over twenty years, and I can not imagine doing anything different. Everyone dies; do I want to die conforming to someone’s stuffed up way of life, or do I want to die with a smile on my face because I lived my life the way I wanted to. Spirituality is your choice to make, it is your life, your religion, and only you choose what is your path. No one has the right to do this for you. I have never said this before but I have dealt with entities, and I have dealt with death in a messed up way. Since I was a child, I embraced the big black figure hovering over me, and never looked away. Oh it’s all too real. Spirituality is all in the way you deal with life. Life is real, death is real, and this is the way it is. Now it is up to you, and how you will deal with spirituality. Music just happens to be my path.
Phil Fasciana
The best way I can answer this question is to consider music and spiritual things. In my opinion, without believing and loving to play music we would have never succeeded. We never started Malevolent Creation with the intention of being rich and famous because we knew our music is not for everyone. Even for twenty years of making music, I still have the same feeling I did when we started when we were sixteen years old. Nothing has really changed, except we play faster than ever, and that will continue until it isn’t fun for us anymore. But I can promise you that we still have unfinished business, and have more to prove. So I can definitely say another Malevolent Creation album will be recorded after we finish the touring cycle for our new album “Doomsday X”, and of course it will be faster and heavier then the last ten albums. You just have to love this music and lifestyle. No matter how hard it is to make an impact; you will never know what can happen unless you stick it out!
“Music might help you find a path or give you strength to look for your path, but ultimately it is up to you… Music just happens to be my path.”
– Brett Hoffmann, vocalist in Malevolent Creation
