 
Reading thrashers Malefice have decided to fully
re-mastered and re-released their debut album
“Entites” to coincide with their recently
announced large headline run of the UK in September.
The reason for this appears extremely clear to
me; a few months ago on The Progression Tour in
the band’s hometown of Reading when I caught
up with lead vocalist Dale Butler, he informed
me that since the release of their latest album
“Awaken The Tides” they have gained
a great deal of recognition, these newly gained
fans are seemingly going back through the bands
back catalogue and raising the question as to
why the band rarely play anything from that debut
as they thought it was awesome. He then proceeded
to tell me that the record label wanted them to
push the new material live as much as possible
to boost sales, so they never got chance to play
many other tracks but now that they’ve re-released
the album and are now going to have to push that
for sales they can once again play more of it
live.
But none of that is important, it’s all
well and good they get to play the material live
again but now they’re pushing a new album
to the public, if already owning the original
“Entities” is the quality of this
release improved to the point where it makes it
worthwhile to own both along with the added unreleased
track? From what I can tell, musically speaking
about the guitars and drums there doesn’t
appear to be a significant difference in quality
by even a little bit, everything appears the same
as it did on the original, the vocals from what
I can tell have undergone some degree of improvement
but not as much as you’d like. Seeing as
this is effectively exactly the same album, I
can only properly review the unreleased track
I guess; “Reason’s Lost” was
a song that didn’t quite make the cut first
time around and wasn’t included, for reasons
which are starting to become clear; the rest of
the album is a brutal mash of breakdowns and screaming,
this track has clean vocals and is quite melodic,
I like this approach in a way because it’s
a change of pace but some of the clean vocals
are just not on par.
So then in my opinion is this worth adding to
your collection should you already have the original?
Times are tough don’t waste your money,
if you want the extra track go to iTunes or something,
if you don’t already have the original and
are interested in the band? Then 100% yes get
the album as it’s more readily available
to acquire and it’s a damn good collection
of songs.
3/5
Review by James Webb
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